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HEALTH – Severe headache, dizziness, cold sweats, extreme fatigue, fainting, facial paralysis… All these symptoms are those of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (STOP). As you can see in the video at the top of the article, Lyndsi Johnson, a 28-year-old American, lives with this chronic illness. It is almost impossible for them to stand for more than ten minutes without losing consciousness. She refers to this as an “allergy to gravity”.
Lyndsi Johnson hails from the state of Maine in the western United States. After high school, she fulfilled her dream by enlisting in the Navy. However, in October 2015, abdominal and back pain developed, which forced him to leave the army three years later. This is where a multi-year medical journey begins.
She explains to the doctors her dozens of fainting spells every day and the fact that she can no longer shop or shower without sitting down. They tell him it’s probably because of the fear and stress caused by the military. “I was throwing up so bad that my heart was very tired, so I was often in the hospital under cardiac monitoring,” she recalls on her Instagram account. Then, finally, a cardiologist finally put his finger on what I had. The diagnosis falls: Lyndsi has STOP.
don’t stop living
Although she is now on beta-blockers, drugs commonly used to treat certain cardiovascular conditions, which have reduced her fainting spells to three times a day and eased her nausea, the young wife still cannot be independent and relies heavily on her husband james . “If I cook a meal for James and I, I’ll stay in bed for the next three days and I can’t do anything,” she said on social media.
Lyndsi has learned to accept the illness and hopes to move from the apartment where the couple lives to a house where she can spend more time outdoors. For them, letting the syndrome take control of their lives is out of the question. For this reason, she pursues her studies in the music business and continues her greatest passion, artistic creation. “Now it takes me between one and six hours to put on my make-up,” the former soldier specifies. But I’m so thankful I can still do it. »
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