Dysautonomia Awareness Month
October is Dysautonomia awareness month. October 25, marks the annual POTS awareness day. Just as no two journeys are identical, the path to a POTS diagnosis is different for each patient. Although, as Jayde-Rhiannon and I have discovered the lengthy road to a diagnosis is usually full of speedbumps and hairpin turns. A month shy of turning forty, I had a full hysterectomy. It was a necessary evil. While taking care of certain parts of my health, my surgery threw me headfirst into menopause overnight. Menopause really should not be a taboo subject. If it weren't, maybe I would not have been surprised by the alien that took over my body, but that is a subject for another day. Insomnia and hot flashes were the worst and lingering side effects of my body laughing and shouting, "You are no longer in your twenties." However, on the plus side, I was told the migraines I had experienced since I was six, should see a drastic improvement. Thankfully, they did. Gone were the two to