Gran Hazel
My mother used to say the cruellest thing you can tell a girl is that it's all in her head.
About 800,000 Australians live with POTS. It's most likely to start between 15 and 50, and women are at much higher risk. A national survey of more than 2,000 GPs found only 2 per cent had any POTS training. Piper Makin, 15, lives in Keith, South Australia, 225 kilometres from her treatment in Adelaide. She said she felt no-one would believe her, because they couldn't see it. Her mum says that without her pushing, Piper might still be in a wheelchair.
Your body was talking long before anyone wrote it down.
So why does it take a mum with a Facebook page to get it heard? And why is it so often the girls who have to prove it?
Talk to your GP or health professional about your own body.
Source: ABC News, 2026-08-19
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