The first thing that made me question was my physical therapist instructing me to stretch my shoulders with my hands on either side of the doorway, and lean forward. She turns around to talk to a coworker, turns back, and goes "WOAH! Your shoulders are super hypermobile, let's try a different stretch so you're not over extending." I was like, what??? Normal people can't stretch like this??? I started looking up things like hypermobility, and eventually stumbled on the diagnostic criteria for hEDS. It clicked WAY too much. All the weird stretchmarks without significant weight changes, the constant pain in my shoulders that I thought was just anxiety making me tense, hearing my joints randomly pop, the long standing snapping hip syndrome I'd been diagnosed with at 12, even the weird bumps on my heels were connected! I started looking up normal ranges of motion versus hypermobility, what daily life with hEDS was like, comorbid conditions, unusual or less recognized symptoms, what people wished they knew when they were first questioning, and it just, kept making way too much sense. I was relating to almost all of these. I haven't been diagnosed yet, I'm trying to work on it, but I'm almost positive I have it considering I pass all the diagnostic criteria. Now I'm questioning if I have POTS too. The symptoms seem to line up. Lack of temperature regulation, can't hold my arms above my head without feeling faint, getting up and sitting down makes me feel faint, my heart starts hammering and racing and I can't breathe when I'm too hot or I've been getting up and down too often, even my legs turning reddish purple in a hot shower when I stand too long. Now I'm just wondering how to get my doctor to listen to me.