10/12/2025
🌞 POTS Season Is Coming — Here’s How to Stay Stronger This Summer
Summer can be especially challenging for people with POTS or dysautonomia, and even more so if you’re hypermobile (hEDS/HSD). Heat dilates blood vessels, reduces blood pressure stability, and increases fluid loss — all of which make symptoms like dizziness, rapid heart rate, fatigue, nausea and brain fog much worse.
For hypermobile people, stretchy connective tissue means blood vessels don’t tighten efficiently, so blood pools in the legs more easily. Add summer heat and the body has to work overtime just to stay upright.
But with the right strategies, summer doesn’t have to feel impossible. 💛
✨ Summer survival tips for POTS & dysautonomia:
• Stay intentionally cool — shade, AC, cooling towels, fans
• Hydrate + electrolytes to support blood volume
• Avoid long periods of standing; sit or elevate legs when you can
• Pace activities, plan around cooler parts of the day
• Be mindful of triggers like hot showers, humidity, heavy meals, tight clothes
• Rest before symptoms crash you
These small adjustments can genuinely reduce symptom flare-ups and help you move through the season with more steadiness and less overwhelm. You’re not imagining your struggles — your autonomic system is working harder in the heat, and you deserve support, not judgment.
🌿 About the author:
This summary is based on an article by Pauline Slater, an Australian physiotherapist and the founder of Hypermobility Health. Pauline specialises in hypermobility, dysautonomia, and connective-tissue conditions, and is passionate about helping people understand their bodies and manage symptoms with practical, science-based strategies.
👉https://hypermobilityhealth.com.au/pots-dysautonomia-postural-orthostatic-tachycardia-syndrome-summer/
🌞 You deserve a summer that works with your body — not against it. 💛
