By David Miller
University of Alabama
People have a reasonable expectation when visiting a physician: a diagnosis.
Then, there’s a prognosis and, hopefully, a plan for recovery.
Two years passed before University of Alabama student Chloe West learned why she’d been experiencing chronic fatigue and foggy brain: dysautonomia, a condition in which the nervous system doesn’t function properly. West was later diagnosed with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), a disease that features dysautonomia and can cause rapid fluctuations of heart rate. West’s diagnosis was equal parts relief and frustration.
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