I want to encourage all my readers and visitors to check out the following blogs/websites and subscribe to them. They are extremely informative and anyone who has Dysautonomia/P.O.T.S. or knows someone with the condition(s) will greatly benefit from reading these sites.
They are written by Dr. Margaret A. Ferrante – an incredible physician and also a Dysautonomia patient herself. Her work is truly inspiring.
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Overcoming: Life with a Chronic Illness 
Posted by Margaret A. Ferrante, MD on February 22, 2012 at 2:27 am
Your website here is amazing and super informative! Thank you for posting my blogs…. Just here to help! Living the diagram below, as well as the research article, which incorporates a lot of cardiology, anesthesiology, and critical care terminology. Super!!!
Posted by hopeful hillary on February 23, 2012 at 12:58 am
Thank you Dr. Ferrante! Please continue your writings as well and we will continue to read! And together we will continue to make a difference!
Posted by margaret ferrante on February 27, 2012 at 10:09 am
Have you heard of “HSDD”? It is my opinion that women should be familiar with this anacronym, used in Primary Care and Ob/Gyn. Women helping Women.
Posted by hopeful hillary on March 1, 2012 at 6:27 pm
No I hadn’t, but I went to your website http://www.virtualmedschool1.blogspot.com and saw it there. Thank you for the information and awareness!
Posted by margaret ferrante on February 27, 2012 at 10:11 am
2:10 am spelling error: “acronym” is correct. Just checking to see if you are awake ;-).
Posted by hopeful hillary on March 1, 2012 at 6:26 pm
ha -;)
Posted by M on March 7, 2012 at 3:42 am
Submitted my book, No More Tears: A Physician Turned Patient Inspires Recovery to the Independent Publishers Book Award. I only have 2 books left and I believe it is time for a ‘new life’. :-). Best Wishes to You!
Posted by Donns on March 11, 2013 at 2:30 pm
Isnt this condition taught in medical schools? If so, I think all of the Dr’s I went to these last few years were absent that day! My symptoms are so black and white.. such a shame I had to go thru so much to finally get diagnosed. And yet I was never told that headaches are also a symptom of POTS….would have saved me numerous trips to headache “specialists”.
So sad.
Posted by hopeful hillary on March 12, 2013 at 12:53 am
It REALLY is a shame. (And I also have CONSTANT headaches. Do you have Chiari?) And no, “doctors” are not taught about it in school unless they specialize in cardiology or neurology and even then, the information they do learn is very limited and broad. You have to seek out specialists and I know most of us have just had to learn and discover our conditions all on our own! At least now, we can share and spread awareness. At least now, research is being done. Knowledge is power and that knowledge will not start or spread in the medical schools any time soon — it starts with US.
Best Wishes,
H
Posted by Anonymous on November 3, 2014 at 9:06 pm
Follow this Twitter, all about POTS and EDS
@potsiezebra
For different tips and tricks, or just to have a laugh!
Posted by hopeful hillary on February 28, 2015 at 1:33 am
LOVE IT!!!! Thank you for all you do!!!
XX
H