What Is Causing Your POTS?
POTS Care, PLLC is the only clinic dedicated to locating and treating the underlying medical causes of POTS, not just the symptoms.
Could you have Inflammatory POTS? Click “Get Started” to answer a few questions about your symptoms with the help of Dr. Diana Driscoll, Clinical Director of POTS Care.
The Driscoll Approach™
POTS Care Clinic
POTS Care is the only clinic in the world treating POTS by locating the underlying medical cause(s) of POTS. We do not just treat the symptoms. We are here to get you answers, to lay out a carefully orchestrated plan, and to assist you in carrying it out! We are here to offer support as you work through recovery and return to a normal life. It takes everything — a full package — and that is what we offer at POTS Care.
How Do We Know Where To Start?
Our work is based on the research of Dr. Diana Driscoll, Founder and President of Genetic Disease Investigators and world-renowned invisible illness expert and foremost authority on POTS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), vagus nerve disorders, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Dr. Driscoll was disabled by POTS for over 10 years, but is fully recovered today.
Had Enough Salt?
At POTS Care we find that the traditional treatments for POTS (high doses of salt, beta-blockers, saline infusions, etc) are not sufficient for recovery and can even be damaging to the patient. Instead, we focus all of our efforts at locating the medical problem(s) causing your case of POTS and treat this underlying cause.
“Although I’ve often likened EDS/POTS to feeling as if one were both poisoned and electrocuted simultaneously, most unaffected people are unable to relate to the sense of urgency experienced by patients. Instead, patients are forced to “white-knuckle” overwhelming symptoms, sometimes living hour by hour, unable to escape symptoms through sleep or by lying down.”
— Dr. Diana Driscoll
Despite her diagnosis of a genetic problem (Ehlers-Danlos syndrome), Dr. Driscoll recovered from POTS (and ME/CFS — “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”) and is working full-time at POTS Care to help others.
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Doctor who recovered from POTS
POTS Care’s Clinical Director, Dr. Diana Driscoll, is a former POTS patient (as were her children). Unresponsive to traditional treatment for POTS, she established Genetic Disease Investigators to study this condition. Now fully recovered, she works full-time at POTS Care® to help others with this condition.
The team at POTS Care will evaluate your case from a different direction than your doctors have! The medical team at POTS Care will evaluate your testing to date, order customized blood work for you, review or order MRI’s if needed, and it can all be done without expensive travel to our clinic! You have already been evaluated by many doctors! What you lack is the brain work involved in your complicated case. This is how we are able to help you virtually. If you have ever wanted a team to study your illness and give you answers, you have found that team at POTS Care.
At POTS Care, it’s personal!
“Patients with POTS usually suffer with so much -- and with little or no validation from their doctors. Even the label of “POTS” does not provide legitimacy for the illness. I remember when I had POTS that I was sick in any position! My fast heart rate was not my worst symptom -- I was completely non-functional, as was my son.
Instead, I view POTS as a symptom of something else, and we need to figure out what that something else is in order to allow recovery.
Identifying the underlying problems also gives patients the validity they need when dealing with doctors and even friends and family. We must dramatically change how this condition is treated. This mission is a personal one for me!”
- Dr. Diana Driscoll
Complete Care
The Driscoll Approach™
This Is A Complete Package
At POTS Care our goal is to get you the answers you need as quickly as possible, to not only
Customized Treatment Plan
POTS Care is not alternative medicine — medications are generally necessary. But after your extensive evaluation, you will have a complete plan laid out in writing, including prescriptions, …Read More
Biofeedback
Many patients with POTS experience surges of anxiety and/or adrenaline that can worsen their symptoms. These surges have a medical basis (but can appear as panic or anxiety to the uninformed). Because these surges can activate the sympathetic nervous system and worsen POTS …Read More
Support
In most cases of POTS, patients have been sick for quite a while. Normal sleep cycles are a distant memory, some are not sure what they can eat without getting sicker, and others would like to exercise again, but don’t know how or when that is in their best interest …Read More
Autonomic Testing
You do not need to do a true tilt table test if you haven’t already completed one, but with our help, you will perform a “poor man’s tilt table test” (if possible) to check for general functionality, to see what direction the blood pressure heads when you are vertical, and to see if your oxygen saturation is affected. All of these things can provide more clues to your illness. …Read More
Review Medical Records
Most patients with POTS have seen an extraordinary number of doctors! Yet rarely is someone going through these records to help tie together disparate signs and symptoms. No one is looking for what is getting missed …Read More
Evaluate Customized Bloodwork
After reviewing your previous records and signs and symptoms of illness, we will create customized blood work for you.We will be digging deeply into many aspects of your health, and objective blood work can …Read More
Ocular Testing
The eyes are the only place in the body that we can look directly at the blood vessels (without looking through tissue). The eyes are also the only place in the body you can view a nerve that is a direct extension of the brain (the optic nerve). …Read more
2 Months of Follow Up
We work closely with you to answer all of your questions and make any changes necessary to maximize the recovery process. Our goal is to put you back in charge of your health, and we can do so if we teach you as we go! …Read More
Review Signs & Symptoms
We begin with a list of over 200 potential signs and symptoms! These results immediately go into sophisticated spreadsheets and algorithms to tell us where we need to begin to look for answers in your individual case …Read More
Review MRIs
We will either review your previous brain MRI, or order a new one, if it is needed. We will review these images looking for what others have missed. We will show you these images and discuss what they may mean for you and your recovery. With POTS …Read More
The Driscoll Approach™
The Driscoll Approach™ At other doctor’s offices, you come once, receive medication, return in a couple of months, receive more medication, return in a few months, receive more medication AND get referrals to numerous other doctors — where you repeat this same scenario.
There is a better way!
At POTS Care, we offer a complete package and provide the answers you need to recover. Additionally, we’ll teach you what we’ve learned about your case and how you can ultimately become the captain of your medical ship again. We do not want you to NEED to return. We are the only POTS clinic set up this way, and we are the only clinic treating the medical causes of POTS.
POTS Recovery
Let us figure out your medical condition, treat it with the lowest risk medications and supplements possible, educate you about your condition, and offer support through recovery.
You do not need a greater number of doctors, you need a team who is focused on your case! POTS Care is a group practice of practitioners under the guidance of Dr. Diana Driscoll, the Clinical Director. Her research and personal journey combined with
Meet Our Patients
Rachel Anne's Story
“I truly can’t express my gratitude enough to Dr. Driscoll and her team for leading me into a new, happier and healthier chapter of my life.“
Fletcher's Story
“Fletcher’s health has improved significantly! He is back to doing the things he loves. We are thrilled! Dr. Driscoll is one of our heroes. She is an expert at dealing with POTS.”
Jill's Story
“I got immediate relief for constipation, surprisingly. Also, the energy that I had, I mean I can feel it today… I feel really focused and the mental clarity I have…”
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