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Water Aerobics

Yesterday I had a migraine from hell and two syncopal episodes. I ended up spending most of the day resting and trying various things to remedy the migraine, with little success. Finally, I fell asleep at around 5 this morning.  Today, I woke up with a slight ache but by this afternoon it was gone. Feeling a little better, my mom and I decided to try some water aerobics. We've read online and heard from other POTS patients that water jogging can be a helpful exercise to recondition your body to vertical exercise and orthostatic tolerance. My aunt and uncle live down the road from us and have a pool so we spent the afternoon working on some water exercises.  I started by speed walking the border of the shallow end of the pool. Using my super awesome Fitbit Charge HR, I monitored my heart rate. Because this speed walk was a warm up, I aimed to keep my heart rate at "Base Pace," which is 145 bpm for me.  Then, I jogged in place for 30 minutes. I wanted to k...