Common symptoms include: rapid heartbeat, lightheadedness with prolonged standing, shortness of breath, dizzyness, headache/ migraine, chronic fatigue, chest pain, and syncope.

Some patients experience strange dreams, limb numbness or heavyness, shaking, nausea, stomach pain, bone chills, hot flashes, low blood pressure and seizures.

Symptoms can arise after exercise, or after emotionally stressful events as well.

YOU KNOW YOU HAVE DYSAUTONOMIA WHEN:
• Your parents tell you to drink before you drive.
• You get mistaken for Casper the Ghost.
• You carry salt packets in your purse.
• You hear a truck backing up and think it's your pump beeping.
• You have tried every flavor of Gatorade
• You tell people you have autonomic failure and they recommend a good transmission repairman.
• Physics is your least favorite subject because you hate gravity.
• Your doctors send you Christmas and birthday cards.
• You make Jell-O shots with Pedialite.
• On a date, your heart races even if the other person's ugly.
• The IV team says they like a challenge... until they meet you.
• You are very patriotic and can turn various shades of red, white and blue.
• You can read your own echo's and EKG's.
• Your latest embroidery project is a wall hanging proclaiming "God Bless Zofran".
• Medical students ask to borrow your notes.
• You use your insurance card more than your visa card.
• You are blood doping and taking speed or narcotics...legally.
• You've been home from the hospital for two weeks and are still measuring pee.
• You're thankful for steroids because finally there won't be leftovers after Thanksgiving.
• You tell people you have pots, and they say, "let's light one up and party!"