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So You Just Got Diagnosed With Pots… I Got You Girl ❤️
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items Getting diagnosed with Pots is so hard. Your whole life gets flipped upside down and you have to relearn how to take care of yourself. These products have helped me significantly day to day. The best thing you can do with chronic illness is to figure...
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Compression Garments
Electrolytes
Emergency Bag Items
Devices
Summer Heat Relief
Easy Exercise Routines 💪
Compression Garments
Compression is one of the first things a doctor will tell you to do. These garments will help to prevent blood pooling and help with overlll circulation!
It’s so hard to find good compression stockings but these are definitely a steal! Cheap but also fairly durable. And are long nail girly approved! Very nice compression also. Like a nice hug for your legs and helps with circulation significantly.
Truform Compression Stockings
Good option for daily compression socks! I can easily put them on and take off which saves my sanity. Not too much compression. Just like a nice little hug 🥰
Copper Fit® Compression Socks Easy-on/Easy-off Technology
Electrolytes
Hydration is so so important with POTS so these are my favorite electrolytes that actually taste good!
These are great for flare up days or emergency electrolytes! It has 1000 mg sodium so they are perfect for a pick me up. They also taste good! Good sugar free electrolytes are hard to find especially when they’re zero sugar but these have a nice tast...
Workout Hydration
Very good daily electrolyte powder! Naturally hydrates with Redmond’s salt. With 810 grams of sodium and other minerals to aid in hydration like potassium, magnesium, and calcium.
Re-Lyte® Hydration, No Added sugar
One of my favorite liquid iv flavors! 500mg of sodium. With 10 grams of sugar. Although some people think the sugar is bad it’s actually been proven to aid in hydration!
Liquid I.V.® Strawberry Lemonade Hydration Multiplier® Powdered Electrolyte Drink Mix, 6 Count Packets
One of my favorite liquid iv flavors! 500 mg of sodium and 11g of sugar to aid in hydration
Liquid I.V.® Popsicle® Firecracker Hydration Multiplier® Powdered Electrolyte Drink Mix, 6 Ct Packets
One of my favorite liquid iv flavors! 510 mg of sodium and sugar free :)
Liquid I.V.® White Peach Sugar-Free Hydration Multiplier® Powdered Electrolyte Drink Mix, 6 Count Packets
The first high sodium electrolyte drink! Definitely need to try this at least once!
LMNT Zero-Sugar Watermelon Salt Sparkling Electrolyte Drink
Emergency Bag Items
It’s always good as a POTsie to keep a bag on you at all times with emergency items. It can help to prevent flare ups or even just feeling bad for the day!
Dramamine is the ONLY thing that helps with my nausea. Nobody likes getting painfully nauseous in the middle of a week long trip. I speak from experience 😭 I wish I would’ve kept some on me long ago so hopefully you learn from my mistakes and just t...
Dramamine All Day Less Drowsy, Motion Sickness Relief, Sensitive Stomach, 8 Count
A pulse oximeter is a great thing to have in your bag at all times! It can help you to be aware of how your body reacts to different things and give you a peace of mind when you need it.
Vibeat Pulse Oximeter, Heart Rate Monitor and Oxygen Saturation
My holy grail 🙏 Whenever I’m feeling a little run down I automatically grab for these. Quick hydration and don’t taste bad at all. I have tried my fair share of electrolyte chews and they all tasted very bad but these are good thankfully!
SaltStick Electrolyte FastChews, 50 Count
I like keeping some pain relief on me at all times because you never know when pain will strike!
Tylenol Extra Strength Pain Reliever
Devices
Technology has advanced so much especially in medicine.These symptom relieving devices can really pack a punch!
POTS usually comes with loads of stomach problems. This strap on heating pad is so amazing. Every single time I have even a small stomach ache I strap this bad boy on and start feeling relief within minutes!
Idoo Cordless Heating Pad for Period Cramps, 3 Heat Settings
These leg massagers really help with leg pain. On the days where I’ve been walking around a whole ton my legs just hurt so bad and putting this thing on helps so so much. And the heat along with the air compression/ massage feels very good. It’s the ...
Nekteck Leg Massager - Air Compression, Heat & Vibration
Adding a vibration plate into my morning routine has helped me tremendously with circulation and my overall mood throughout the day. With pots sometimes we just feel icky but I’ve seen how this has helped on those hard days. It’s no cure all but even...
Lifepro Waver Vibration Plate
Summer Heat Relief
Heat intolerance with POTS sucks in the summer. But all the fun activities are outside! These products help me to actually enjoy the outdoors instead of being miserable 🤗
Not just for migraines! I like to use them anytime I go outside in the summer and just can’t take the heat! The back of the neck is the best place to put it. It keeps you nice and cool but can also be hidden behind hair!
Be Koool Cooling Relief For Migraine Soft Gel Sheets, 4 Each
This cooling ring is amazing! It has a higher freezing temperature so you can freeze it even if you don’t have a freezer available. A refrigerator or even car ac! The best part is that it doesn’t sweat so your clothes wet :)
CoolTimeUSA Neck Cooling Tube
These towels are so handy to have in summer. Just some water will have these nice and cool. Sweat dripping down your face? Cooling towel. Want to be cooler? Cooling towel on neck. Truly so good
4 Pack Cooling Towels, Silicone Case, Breathable, Sweat Absorbent
This fan really does help to keep me cool in the summer! On those unbelievably hot and muggy summer days a little fan can help so much to just not feel so miserable.
JISULIFE 5 in. Personal Fan in Pink
Easy Exercise Routines 💪
Exercise is SO important with pots. It helps to tone your blood vessels and strengthen your heart. Making all your other symptoms decrease! These are my favorite routines to start out with :)
Seated upper body workouts like these with light weights is an AMAZING place to start in your workout journey! Workouts like these helped regulate my POTS:)
💪🏼🫀POTS FRIENDLY UPPER BODY DAY🫀💪🏼
Isometric exercises are great in the way that they don’t increase your heart rate as much as cardio does! Easy on your joints, easy on your heart, and easy on your body!
Low Intensity Isometric Workout Routine
These are great in the way that you can pick and choose which moves work best for you! And are all on the ground to help prevent a heart rate spike!
Benefits👇🏼 -bridges strengthen glutes, hamstring pelvic floor and core which all help to boost ci...
Easy Pilates Moves for POTS
Legs are where blood pools the most! Strengthening your legs will help keep that blood where it’s supposed to be!
Laying Leg Strengthening Exercises🤍
Sometimes I can’t even bring myself to get out of bed to workout. I love doing bed workouts so I don’t have to 😏🤫
A Circulation Exercise Routine you can do From Bed❤️
This one is a little more hardcore! If you’re looking for a little bit of a challenge then this is great! At home and Pilates style 🤗
Resistance Band Workout 🥵💦
Some basic and easy exercises! She also explains in this video the science behind why all this works. Highly recommend listening to it! It’s so so important to know how things affect your body.
POTS Beginner Gym Circuit by a Lead Exercise Physiologist 😍
Random Things
Showers don’t exhaust me anymore! I love using this because it’s a super simple way to make day to day life easier :)
Equate Shower Chair