Compression Garments for POTS: How to Choose the Right One
Compression socks not helping your POTS? You might have the wrong mmHg, length, or timing. A practical, research-backed guide to choosing compression that works.
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The Medical Tests Behind a POTS, MCAS or hEDS Diagnosis: A Plain-Language Guide
Tilt-table test, tryptase panel, Beighton score — what each test for POTS, MCAS and hEDS actually measures, what to expect, and why diagnosis takes so long.
Dating With a Chronic Illness: When and How to Tell Someone
Agonizing over when to tell a date about your chronic illness? There's no universal right moment — real survey data and language that actually works.
Supplements Commonly Discussed for MCAS and POTS: What to Know Before You Start
An informational, no-dosage overview of supplements commonly discussed in the MCAS and POTS community — and why a doctor conversation should come first.
Parenting With Chronic Illness: Guilt, Energy, and Showing Up Anyway
Can you parent well with chronic illness? Yes — practical, guilt-easing strategies for showing up for your kids with limited energy.
Chronic Illness and Relationships: Staying Close When Your Body Changes the Rules
Chronic illness changes relationships — but not automatically for the worse. Practical ways to protect communication, intimacy and connection with a partner.
Low-Histamine Grocery List: A Practical Starting Point for MCAS
Is salmon high in histamine? Fresh, canned and smoked are not the same answer. A practical low-histamine grocery list and fish guide for MCAS and histamine intolerance.
Medical Gaslighting: Scripts for When a Doctor Doesn't Believe You
Told your tests are normal but you know something's wrong? Medical gaslighting is real and documented. Scripts and preparation strategies to be taken seriously.
Brain Fog and Chronic Illness: Why Your Brain Feels Slow, and What Actually Helps
POTS brain fog is real and measurable — documented deficits in attention and processing speed, present even while seated. What's behind it, and what actually helps.
Post-Exertional Malaise (PEM): The Crash After the Crash
Feel fine, then get wiped out a day later? That's post-exertional malaise (PEM) — a real, documented pattern in ME/CFS, post-viral illness and POTS.
Finding the Right Specialist: Red Flags and What Good Care Looks Like
Not every doctor is the right fit for complex chronic illness. Red flags to watch for and practical ways to find a specialist who actually gets it.
Body Image and Chronic Illness: Making Peace With a Body That Changed the Rules
Chronic illness changes bodies — and how we feel about them. Research-backed insight into body image, self-compassion, and adaptive clothing for spoonies.