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i love my sport and i love competing and i work so hard to be able to do it and it’s so fucking frustrating how hard i crash after competitions. i put all this work in to be mediocre and then suffer for the next week ✌🏼 any other POTS athletes lol
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Anonymous 18h

track kid with POTS here, i feel ur pain ✊

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Anonymous 17h

I was having a pretty major episode at practice once and a tech who was in school for sports medicine checked my pulse and just said “you’re just out of shape” when I was actively saying I have a condition and just need to rest a minute 💀

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 17h

But I also got a crip cart for injured students after parents got in trouble for driving me on one when I couldn’t walk so a win is a win

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 13h

no cause same i was at a competition and before i even went on looked at my coaches and said “my HR is 180 and i feel like shit” and they know i have pots but basically just said i was out of shape 😀

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