Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
Trouble with Heart Rate and Blood Pressure after COVID-19, Vaccination, or Both
By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
One of the most common symptomatic complaints after COVID-19, vaccination, and now in most persons who have both exposures is POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome). This is a disorder where there is a lack of synchronization between the heart, brain, spinal cord sympathetic chain of ganglia, adrenal gland, and the blood vessels both arterial and venous. The Spike protein on SARS-CoV-2 and flooding the system after vaccination damages neurological tissue, the adrenal glands, and the heart. The end result can be inappropriately elevated heart rate and either low or high blood pressure causing dizziness. I have seen cases of syncope with facial trauma as a result of this bothersome condition. Kwan et al has shown (n=284,592) that the risk for POTS is substantial, just after heart damage as the highest risk cardiovascular side effect of COVID-19 vaccination.
Most of the care for POTS is supportive (lower leg compression stockings, increased salt and fluid intake, exercise). I have found in severe cases with adequate blood pressure that the use of nadolol can control the tachycardia and help while the patient has cardiovascular-neurological reflexes return to normal over a period of months. Since most children and adults in the US have recovered from COVID-19, there is no reason to take additional vaccines and risk POTS, myocarditis, or both.
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My patients with POTS since the COVID vaccine rollout have mostly been those who had this happen hours after being near covid-vaccinated people, then generally lasting days, until ivermectin, iv nutrients, exercise, which resolved it till the next exposure episode. The spike protein shedding that Pfizer acknowledged in their documents to the FDA seems the most likely cause. I summarized earlier patient secondary reactions here:
https://colleenhuber.substack.com/p/secondary-vaccine-effects
Each new booster that comes out is followed by a wave of these secondary findings among my patients, then waned again each time.
As more and more information comes out about the effects of covid 19 itself (irrespective of the vaccine) it seems to become more and more possible that this entire scenario was actually a bioweapon. Iām no doctor or scientist, but it appears that the āmodificationsā (rather than mutations??) between natural corona viruses and covid 19, are far more detrimental to many organs and body circuits and systemsā¦..???? Considering that viruses normally do not become more lethal, as killing the host is not self serving, I wonder if some research has been done to indicate if such a comparison of mutations is even feasible, naturallyā¦..