Appointment prep
Prepare for a POTS or dysautonomia appointment
Orthostatic symptoms are often minimized as anxiety or deconditioning. Medvo helps you describe what you experience in clinical language and request appropriate autonomic testing — framed as evaluation, never diagnosis.
Symptoms patients describe
- · Heart racing or pounding when standing
- · Dizziness, lightheadedness, or near-fainting on upright posture
- · Exercise intolerance or needing to sit after showers
- · Brain fog that worsens when upright
Tests & referrals to request
Framed as evaluation — your clinician decides what is appropriate.
- · Vital signs lying and standing (orthostatic vitals)
- · Tilt-table test or active stand test
- · Referral to autonomic specialist or cardiologist familiar with dysautonomia
If you've been dismissed
- · Told symptoms are anxiety without orthostatic vitals
- · Advised to exercise more without addressing orthostatic intolerance