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I was in a miserable puddle of sensory overload. 15 years after the test I started learning that yeah I'm probably ASD, and there's a strange correlation with ASD and POTS. Neuron magic.

And no problem with that yeah.

The sweat test was awful. You basically wear your underwear, lie down in what amounts to a glass oven, then they spread sand all over your and you sit still for an hour and bake. Then they take a picture at the end.

And purple means sweat, yellow means no sweat. It shows what sweat glands activated by the autonomic nervous system. Then you have to shower it off and it takes forever.

They were very professional about it though, it was a nurse, a doc, and technician. I guess they were doing multiple tests at the same time, but I never saw other people doing it. Which was a relief I didn't really want to see other purple people

It does help me keep volume, definitely. I found ones called "vitassium". They have 500mg of sodium, 100mg of potassium per pill. That seems to work ok with 3L, so it should help reduce your intake.

It's kind of weird to think about though. All my life I had to listen to my family having too high blood pressure so I got used to not eating salt.

Well that backfired.

No, it's somewhat more disturbing.

Kirk was outside of the shooter's in group. In Fascism those in the out group need to shut up and get out of the way. It doesn't matter to the shooter that Kirk was an ultraconservative bigoted lunatic, he wasn't conservative enough. Since he was still talking and not getting out of the way, the Fascist believes he has an obligation to fix that problem.

And what's stranger, is that there is no doubt in my mind that Kirk thought the same thing about Fuenes. But they would both agree that if I had any public speaking ability (or any speaking ability for that matter) I would definitely be more important to sanitize first.

Fascists are elementary school boys left without supervision. That's all they really are.

One can only hope. First time I heard the white replacement theory I said "thank God, we sure as shit ruined it for everyone else."

They believe the left consists of no one but minorities, lgbtq, and women.

I'm not kidding at all. I can walk right up to these conversations people will have and no one will blink an eye.

But they believe it so much that they will kill other white men who don't conform to the group. That's why Kirk was killed. He was a man that existed outside the in-group and needed to be cleaned up.

Oh, I probably responded to that one someone else's comment and forgot to bring it along with me.

My mother has tried to convince me of that. The "and then it got worse" is part of the core of their culture. I don't want to believe that's true, mostly because things DID get better after Stalin died.

I get that 500 years of state-subsidized alcoholism can greatly impact a nation, but surely they are capable of trying for something better.

Well, bro, I got some bad news on that front.

I've been to two of the best hospitals in the world (not on purpose, just coincidentally and they wanted to check it out in their specialty clinics) and went through some unpleasant testing (one is called a thermoregulation sweat test that they cover you in color changing sand), and that's the exact same thing I have to do.

I take 4 salt pills, drink 3 liters of water, Gatorade or Pedialyte and a beta blocker. I do cardio. The one thing I am starting to get better at now is lower body strength - my legs are pretty dinky and along with increased blood volume, bigger leg muscles can help ease the symptoms.

The beta blocker thing I got unlucky with though, there's a few of them that are better for pots but I can't metabolize them (or maybe I rapidly metabolize them so they don't work at all, I cant remember).

Yeah, that was my son. He would throw a fit until he was about 5 that WE caused him to run into the wall.

Does really hot weather seem to cause it?

Do you seem to eat less salt than other people?

Do you have persistently low blood pressure but a heart rate that is easy to spike?

If you stretch just right will it happen?

I don't want to just say "go see a doctor" but having collapsed at very bad opportunities, it is not worth finding out until it's too late that you have to make some lifestyle changes to function.

I want to point out that Orthostatic Hypotension is normal to some degree.

If you experience it changing positions while sitting, or notice exercise and heat intolerance, talk to a doctor. In the short term drink enough fluids and get a bunch of sodium and potassium in you.

Edit: Im going to step out here and say that I am personally familiar with a condition called Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. It's somewhat uncommon, and has a lot of potential causes. COVID-19, specifically, can trigger it because of the way it attacks the nervous system. However, the symptoms of POTS are also the symptoms of a BUNCH of other much more serious conditions. It's a diagnosis by ruling out other things. When they get to the step of testing for POTS it's hilariously easy. They monitor your heart rate and blood pressure, stick you on a moving table, and tilt you.

On the downside, POTS itself is incurable unless the underlying cause changes or improves. This happens in many people, I was unfortunate enough that they discovered I had unexplainable neuropathies. Either the nerves were damaged when I was young, or they didn't grow correctly.

The upside is that we can manage POTS symptoms. Avoid heat. Build lower body muscle, increase electrolyte intake, and drink a lot of non-caffinated and non-alcoholic liquids. I take salt pills, drink Pedialyte daily, and have a prescribed (and extremely cheap) medication. It still happens, but it's manageable, and I won't die from a head injury anymore.

POTS?

I actually had to start taking salt pills. I still greyout, but I don't lose muscle strength anymore.