That's How I ended Up Here

Another question I get a lot is how I got diagnosed with POTS. Well this is a complex answer. Let me start by saying I switched from a public school to the private Christian school I attend now. At my school we do something called senior presentations. We explain how we have seen God in our lives and where we feel Him taking us. I was a sophomore when a girl presented her presentation for one of our chapel's at school. She explained how she was bogged down with these many symptoms and how she had gone to Mayo Clinic and had a tilt table test and was diagnosed with POTS. At this point I had gone from specialist to specialist for two agonizing years, all telling me these symptoms were in my mind. This was their way of saying "we don't know what's going on". When this girl was explaining what she had been through I thought wow that sounds a lot like me! I went home and asked my mom to set up an appointment with Mayo. Of course it was a while before I could get in, but I did. They did the tilt table test which was really easy and kinda fun being on a table that goes from a supine position to standing. My heart rate dropped and my pulse  raised a lot. That was all the proof they needed and I was diagnosed with dysautonomia or POTS. While the diagnosis was a huge relief my symptoms have continued to get worse.  I fully depend on God for everything in my life. I see how He is daily working through my suffering to bring me and others closer to Him. Its been over four years with my battle of POTS and God has done unspeakable things through my journey. I look back and wonder how I ever made it this far and there is only one answer, God. He truly is amazing and I am proud to be a child of Him. He continually shows His goodness to this day! You really can't make it though this without HIM.