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Post-Viral POTS: Why Autonomic Symptoms Persist After Infection | Sarasota

Posted in Head Disorders

Date: Aug 2, 2026

Post-Viral POTS: Why Autonomic Symptoms Persist After Infection | Sarasota

Post-Viral POTS: Why Autonomic Symptoms Persist After Infection The most common way POTS begins is with an infection that everyone expected you to get over. It might have been mononucleosis, influenza, a gastrointestinal virus, Lyme disease, or COVID-19. The acute illness ran its course. The fever broke, the test came back negative, ...

CCI, AAI, Chiari, and Tethered Cord: Telling Overlapping Conditions Apart | Sarasota

Posted in Head Disorders

Date: Aug 1, 2026

CCI, AAI, Chiari, and Tethered Cord: Telling Overlapping Conditions Apart | Sarasota

CCI, AAI, Chiari, and Tethered Cord: Telling Overlapping Conditions Apart Four conditions come up repeatedly in the same conversations, in the same patient communities, and often in the same patients. They get used almost interchangeably online, which is understandable — the symptoms overlap heavily and they genuinely do co-occur — but ...

Still Rocking After a Cruise? Understanding Mal de Débarquement Syndrome in Sarasota

Posted in Health Conditions

Date: Jul 30, 2026

Still Rocking After a Cruise? Understanding Mal de Débarquement Syndrome in Sarasota

The cruise ended days ago, but your body has not received the message. The floor feels as if it is moving. Standing at the kitchen counter feels strangely similar to standing on a boat. You may describe it as rocking, bobbing, bouncing, floating, or walking on a dock. Sitting still does not ...

Craniocervical Instability After a Car Accident or Whiplash | Sarasota

Posted in Head Disorders

Date: Jul 30, 2026

Craniocervical Instability After a Car Accident or Whiplash | Sarasota

Craniocervical Instability After a Car Accident or Whiplash Most of what is written about craniocervical instability is written for people with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. That is reasonable — connective tissue disorders are the best-documented route to ligamentous insufficiency at the top of the neck, and the research base is concentrated there. But it ...

Craniocervical Instability Symptoms: How Do You Know If You Have It? | Sarasota

Posted in Head Disorders

Date: Jul 29, 2026

Craniocervical Instability Symptoms: How Do You Know If You Have It? | Sarasota

Craniocervical Instability Symptoms: How Do You Know If You Have It? Most people do not arrive at craniocervical instability by name. They arrive by symptom, and usually by a strange one. The head starts to feel heavy — not sore, heavy, as though the neck is struggling to hold it up. Reading ...

MCAS and POTS: Mast Cells, Neurogenic Inflammation, and the Upper Cervical Connection | Sarasota

Posted in Thoracic and Ribs

Date: Jul 28, 2026

MCAS and POTS: Mast Cells, Neurogenic Inflammation, and the Upper Cervical Connection | Sarasota

MCAS and POTS: Mast Cells, Neurogenic Inflammation, and the Upper Cervical Connection Some people with POTS have a second layer to their illness that standard autonomic management does not touch. They flush — not blush, flush, in blotchy red waves across the chest, neck, and face. They react to foods that ...