A woman who is ‘allergic to gravity’ spends 23 hours in bed, faints up to 10 times a day and can’t stand up for more than three minutes without passing out.
Lyndsi Johnson, 28, has to sit with her legs crossed to stop her from feeling sick and can only get up to eat or shower. She started suffering from abdominal and back pain in October 2015. Her symptoms had only worsened and within a few years she was projectile vomiting and fainting up to 10 times a day.
After years of going back and forth to the doctors, Johnson was diagnosed with postural tachycardia syndrome (PoTS) in February 2022–an abnormal increase in heart rate that occurs after sitting up or standing–which Johnson also refers to as an allergy to gravity.
