POTS and Dysautonomia
Ivabradine for POTS: What the Evidence Actually Says
If you’ve got POTS, you already know the feeling. You stand up, and your heart takes off like you’ve just sprinted for a bus, except
19 July 2026
If you’ve got POTS, you already know the feeling. You stand up, and your heart takes off like you’ve just sprinted for a bus, except
It’s not uncommon for those with hypermobility to have difficulty with swallowing, voice, reflux, and last but not least, that maddening feeling of a lump
If you have hypermobility and your head is a regular problem, you’ve probably had it explained to you in one of two ways. Either it’s
If you have hypermobility and spend any time online, you’ve almost certainly run into the Body Braid. It’s that spiral elastic garment, the one that
A deep, chronological, critical review of the research on Pilates for chronic low back pain, hypermobility, and fibromyalgia. What the trials actually show, what they don’t, and what to look for if you’re considering it.
Yoga gets recommended for almost everything that aches, but what does the research really say? We look at the history, the evidence, how it compares with tai chi and Pilates, and what it means for fibromyalgia and hypermobility.
Chronic pain and intimacy for queer, trans and polyamorous people: community insight on HRT and libido, joint pain in queer sex, two disabled partners, and polyamory as a structural accommodation for chronic illness.
What hypermobility and EDS community members actually use during intimacy to protect joints, plus what the evidence says about kinesiology tape, braces, compression and props.
A practical pain management routine for intimacy with chronic pain. What to do before, during, and after, drawn from community experience and evidence based principles.
Pacing advice usually focuses on the things that look like work. Cooking, cleaning, shopping, working, exercise. Intimacy gets left off the list, partly because nobody
Most sex advice assumes a body that does what it’s told. Bend here, hold this, support your weight on that joint for as long as
You didn’t sign up to be a carer. Neither did they. That wasn’t the deal when the relationship started. And yet here you are, a
There’s a grief that sits underneath chronic pain that most clinicians don’t name, most partners don’t fully see, and most people living with it don’t
There’s a conversation that happens in a lot of relationships where one person has chronic pain. It goes something like this: the person with pain
This article covers: Toggle The disclosure question, and why nobody gives you a straight answer What the research actually shows about when to tell The
If you have hypermobility, fibromyalgia, POTS, endometriosis, or interstitial cystitis, and sex hurts, you are not unusual. You are also not broken, dramatic, or making
PCOS has been renamed PMOS in 2026. Here’s what that means if you’re hypermobile, and what the evidence actually says about the overlap.
Your brain has a map of your body, and the map drives joint control, not the muscle. A look at cortical maps, proprioception, vestibular and visual inputs, why the signal goes fuzzy in hypermobility, and how to train for sharper joint awareness.