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By LaLa4

| Aug 16, 2011

1 Comment

POTS and Blood Donation

Hi all,
I donated blood last night and have been feeling really POTSy (my term for when I'm really experiencing my symptoms badly) and I've been very weak,muscles are weak, really hard time breathing, racing heart, basically feel like i ran a marathon... I'm guessing donating blood was probably not a great idea when you have POTS but I did it anyway. Anyone have any idea how long it will take my body to recoup and go back to my regular level of POTSiness??
Thanks for any help!!

Tags: POTS, blood donation, Heart

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mhop111

Aug 16, 2011

i could never donate blood with POTS, everytime i would faint. i was usually fine by the end of that day tho after eating some pizza and cookies (i was donating at my high school, lots of free pizza and cookies)

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