After 20-Year Search, ‘Undiagnosable’ Patient Gets Answer: POTS

Kim Ryberg, 33, remember the first time she fainted at age 13. Over the next two decades, Ryberg experienced life-altering symptoms like regular fainting spells, extreme vertigo and excessive hot and cold flashes. Her symptoms diminished her quality of life, leaving her Kim Ryberg unable to drive, work or have children with her husband, for fear of fainting and causing an accident. She sought answers from more than 50 doctors, but never received a diagnosis.