It seems Christina Applegate isn’t alone in her family when it comes to dealing with health issues. The actor’s teenage daughter publicly revealed this week she was diagnosed with a condition known as POTS. As the “Dead to Me” star continues her battle with multiple sclerosis , her 13-year-old daughter Sadie Grace Applegate LeNoble said in a recent episode of her mother and “The Sopranos” actor Jamie Lynn-Sigler‘s “ MeSsy” podcast that she has been living with POTS — postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome — for years.
In Tuesday’s episode, Sadie said she was not officially diagnosed until recent months. “I have no clue what it actually is, but it’s something to do with the autonomic nervous system and it affects my heart,” Sadie explained. “So when I stand up, I get really, really dizzy and my legs get really weak and I feel like I’m going to pass out.
” POTS affects the body’s autonomic nervous system, which regulates the functions the body needs to survive including heart rate, digestion, pupil dilation and constriction and blood flow, according to the Cleveland Clinic . It causes a person’s “heart to beat faster than normal” after going from sitting or lying down to standing up. POTS is a common but incurable condition that affects 1 million to 3 million people in the United States, the Cleveland Clinic says.
POTS can manifest differently: Sadie says she experiences tremors and blurry vision, which can affect her school day. Sh.
