The Gender Gap in PoTS: Why Your Sex Should Never Determine How Long You Wait

Today let's decode something that has been hiding in plain sight for decades. Because it turns out that when it comes to getting a PoTS diagnosis, your biology can work for or against you in ways that

First, a quick note on who gets PoTS

PoTS does not care about your sex. It can affect anyone. Around 87% of diagnosed patients are women, which has led to PoTS being widely thought of as a condition that predominantly affects women. But that framing comes with a risk: when a condition gets coded as a “woman’s illness,” men who develop it face their own d…