POTS research Meaning: Pastoral Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome What happens? The heart beats too fast and the blood pressure drops while moving from sitting down to standing up. Symptoms: Lightheadedness Dizziness Fluttering in chest Chest pain Exhaustion Brain fog Anxiousness Shaking Sweating Feeling ill What does Sinceritykit have? Neuropathic POTS: A lowered amount of nerves able to signal to cardiac muscle When will the symptoms emerge: Around the age of 12 moons as in human years the symptoms appear around the age of 15. How will this effect Sinceritykit; When they get up too quickly they will be more likely to feel dizzy and lightheaded, they will deal with chest pain when they move too quickly. Since sinceritykit is a cat and thus is lower to the ground the blood pooling will be less drastic as their bodies positioning will not change as much. Sinceritykit could try to increase their salt intake by collecting rock salt and licking it as a snack. They will increase their lava intake and perform regular stretching. Their diet will focus more on birds and, rarely, fish to balance their iron and protein intake. Alongside this Sincerity will collect comfortable objects for their nest to help improve their sleep quality. Sincerity will take tabs on their emotions but they will feel mild frustration and worry about their health at first. Eventually they will grow used to it and adapt around it. Times their POTS could flare up: High stress situations Fights with large prey Anxiety attacks Excessive exercise too much activity puts strain on the heart. Anything that triggers a spike in adrenaline can cause a blood pressure imbalance What about in battle: Sincerity will try their best to avoid battle when necessary, if worst comes to worst they will participate in evacuation and they are not against raising their claws should the need arise. Kithood: No symptoms, as POTS doesn’t usually show at this time. Apprenticehood: Dizziness starts showing, they brush it off as moving too fast but the symptoms will start to intensify as they age. Warriorhood: Symptoms fully show. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/16560-postural-orthostatic-tachycardia-syndrome-pots
Sinceritykit will be intersex at birth. Due to this their reproductive organs will not function, this will lead to behavioral differences due to the differences in hormonal balance. They will be less territorial, less aggressive and less interested in finding and taking a mate. They will be sterile. Sinceritykit would have been biologically a male but due to their lack of testosterone they will not develop the classic tomcat jowels. They wont be as loudly vocal and cancer risk related to their reproductive parts will be decreased. They will have a decreased metabolism so they will gain weight much easier. These differences are due to different levels of hormones
