They’re young and athletic. They’re also ill with a condition called POTS.

[Jaybee00]

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[rvallee]

Teens and young adults at peak fitness are generally regarded as being extremely healthy, so the burst of POTS cases has puzzled doctors.

Another early finding is that 90 percent of the POTS patients had been exercising regularly before being struck with the condition. Only 28 percent of Americans exercise regularly, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This is probably a bit of an overestimate, but there definitely is an overrepresentation of physically active people. Makes all the nonsense about deconditioning look at that more foolish. But still 4 years into LC most MDs stick to it like it's damn mantra, most still advice to exercise. I still regularly see threads like this, with so many pushed into severe disability as a result of bad medical advice, something that never gets recorded: Was anyone doing anything physical when they first noticed they had Long Covid?

“It’s not a lock-and-key situation with just anybody getting covid and then POTS,” Hebson theorized. “It’s that some patients had a predisposition to POTS to begin with, and then something comes along — it could be mono or covid or something else to give them a push.”

What a complete mess the damn psychosomatic ideology has created. All that damn smug troll face "what? you think a virus did this to you?!" Although clearly concussions and similar injuries seem to be a common trigger:

The second group was dominated by men, including football players, and they reported experiencing symptoms of dysautonomia — the bouncing heart rate that is the main characteristic of POTS — after a concussion.

Their findings, published in the journal the Physician and Sportsmedicine, are consistent with the first documented cases of POTS. During the Civil War, POTS was among a number of distinct syndromes once known collectively as soldier’s heart because so many members of the military exhibited symptoms. Medical historians speculate that head injuries during combat triggered some cases.

Which would suggest similar brain damage observed in both causes. But as we know, subtle brain damage is beyond current technology, so the psychiatrist of the gaps is always there to push the old beliefs.

And despite this, for 99% of people with POTS or any other chronic health issue caused by COVID or another pathogen, nothing's changed, and psychosomatic ideology is stronger than ever. What a disaster.