Most of our POTS patients have spent years being told it’s anxiety, dehydration, or “just in their head.”
If you recognize yourself in the list below, you are not imagining it and you don’t have to keep guessing.
POTS isn’t one diagnosis with one cause. It’s a pattern of autonomic dysfunction that can be driven by inflammation, gut imbalances, post-viral changes, nervous-system dysregulation, hormones,
and more.
We don’t hand you a prescription and a salt packet and send you on your way.
We work to understand why your system is dysregulated then we address it from the inside out.
You won’t be told it’s anxiety. You won’t be sent away with one prescription and no plan.
POTS care should be thoughtful, individualized and grounded in both clinical evidence and respect for what you’ve already tried.
Dr. Toni is the founder of Be Well OKC and has spent her career at the intersection of integrative medicine and traditional acupuncture.
After watching patient after patient be dismissed with conditions like POTS, long COVID and chronic fatigue, she built a practice designed for the people the conventional system tends to overlook. She is based in Edmond and sees patients in person at the Be Well OKC clinic.
Her approach blends evidence-based integrative therapies with the quiet, restorative work of acupuncture because she believes treating dysautonomia means treating the nervous system, not just the heart rate.
“My patients have been told for years that nothing is wrong. Something is wrong… and we can do something about it.”
These are stories from people who came in exhausted, dismissed and skeptical.
Be Well helped to restore their lives from the ground up.
POTS, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, is a form of dysautonomia where standing up causes an abnormal rise in heart rate.
Common symptoms include dizziness, fatigue, brain fog, palpitations, exercise intolerance, and GI issues.
No. Many of our patients come in suspecting POTS or a related autonomic condition but without a confirmed diagnosis.
Part of our first visit is reviewing what testing has been done and whether further workup is appropriate.
Acupuncture has a growing body of research supporting its effect on autonomic regulation which is the very system that drives POTS symptoms.
Acupuncture is shown to be a powerful part of an integrative plan that calms the nervous system and supports recovery.
Visits are in person at our Edmond clinic. Acupuncture treatment is hands-on and we believe initial integrative workups are best done face-to-face.
Honestly, it depends. Some patients feel meaningful change within a few weeks; others, especially those with longer or post-viral histories, take several months.
Recovery from autonomic dysfunction is rarely linear which is why we set realistic expectations together at your first visit.