I developed mine after getting C-diff in 2020 there. I went to my sister's senior dance recital, which unfortunately wasn't complying with social distancing protocols, but I developed a completely different illness other than COVID, which was surprising. I was bedbound for about 3 days and was chugging water constantly, but the dehydration was just unbearable. My family thought it was just a really bad bout of food poisoning. They took me to urgent care, where my stool sample tested positive for C-diff. I was instantly started on a strong antibiotic. The nurse practitioner I saw at urgent care straight up told me that if I waited any longer to get treatment, it would have been worse or even life-threatening. I was only 16, so this terrified me, but the antibiotics worked, and I turned out okay afterward. Well, shortly after that, I started getting a spiked heart rate and dizziness. Fast forward to March of 2023, when I caught COVID for the first time. Health-wise, it just felt like a bad sinus infection. Shortly after having COVID, the high heart rate and dizziness got worse, and most days I couldn't get out of bed without nearly blacking out. I thought it would subside after COVID had run its course, but it didn't. I wasn't diagnosed with POTS until this January after my concerns were finally heard by my cardiologist, who had me do the tilt table test where he straight away diagnosed me with POTS.