Compression pants alleviating POTS
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- Not stated
- Published
- Undated
Summary
Compression stockings, specifically Class 2 medical compression tights at 20-30mmHg, were worn for about 10 years by this severely ill, eventually bedbound ME/CFS patient, who calls them "the best." Illness duration before starting is not stated. The tights are credited with real symptom relief for POTS-type symptoms over that decade. She had to stop wearing them only because she became too ill to manage changing clothes, not because they stopped working, and she expected to resume them once well enough, making this an ongoing maintenance treatment rather than a cure.
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