December 15, 2016
Learning to Live Well With POTS Brightens Daily Life for Christine Esposito
It’s a condition with no outward symptoms. But for the hundreds of thousands of teens and adults in the U.S. living with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, or POTS, the medical disorder has a significant impact on their lives. Christine Esposito is one of those people. Christine was diagnosed with the condition in 2002 by Mayo […]
Tags: Dr. Jeremy Cutsforth-Gregory, Neurology & Neurosurgery, POTS Syndrome
July 14, 2010
What Led Hayley Lairmore to Mayo Clinic
By Lee Aase
After her daughter Hayley had been vomiting an average of 10 times a day for nearly six months, her mother Christine happened upon what seemed to her a possible diagnosis: Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), as described in the first post in this series. In part 2, Mrs. Lairmore recalls what led her to finally […]
Tags: Christine Lairmore, Dizziness, Fatigue, Hayley Lairmore, Heart racing, Mayo Clinic, Phil Fischer, POTS, POTS Syndrome, Tachycardia, teenagers, Vomiting
February 23, 2010
Hayley’s POTS Story: Getting Answers at Mayo Clinic
By Lee Aase
Editor’s Note: The following was written by Christine Lairmore of Lake Arrowhead, California. When our daughter, Hayley, turned 14 on March 8, 2009, we took her to Disneyland to celebrate. After a day full of riding rides and eating junk food, she woke up vomiting and kept vomiting all night long and all the next […]
Tags: 5306, 5335, Patient Story, Pediatrics, POTS, POTS Syndrome