Solange Says She’s Living With This ‘Debilitating’ Condition — And Diagnoses Are Rising

Kate Green via Getty Images Solange Knowles opened up on social media about living with POTS, an automatic nervous system disorder. Solange Knowles recently shared that she’s been living with “debilitating” and “confusing” symptoms of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome after model Shaun Ross posted on social media last month that he developed the condition after experiencing long COVID. Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told HuffPost that “the actual mechanism linking COVID-19 infection and POTS has not been fully discovered,” but “several hypotheses such as autoimmunity, autonomic nervous system dysfunction, and others are being investigated,” he said. Cheng pointed out that while reports suggest that some patients first notice symptoms of POTS after a COVID-19 infection, it’s “difficult to discern whether this is a correlation or causation without establishing detailed timelines.” Dr. Arthur L. Jenkins, a neurosurgeon who specializes in nervous system disorders such as POTS, explained to HuffPost that while hypotheses about the links between COVID-19 and POTS “haven’t been definitively proven yet,” there does “appear to be more POTS in patients who have had COVID, than those who haven’t.” “But I also suspect we’re also looking for it more now than we did 10 years ago,” he added. Jenkins said that he’s seen more “general recognition” of POTS and that he believes in the past, people with the disorder had more commonly experienced “medical gaslighting” when discussing their symptoms, in addition to misdiagnoses.