POTS Tracker App
Prasana
Track heart rate changes on standing, blood pressure, orthostatic symptoms, and daily salt and fluid intake. Get personalized insights that help you and your cardiologist manage postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome effectively.
Includes tracking for Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, orthostatic intolerance, and dysautonomia.
- Understand your heart rate patterns when standing, sitting, and lying down
- Identify which triggers worsen your orthostatic symptoms
- Share clear reports with your cardiologist or dysautonomia specialist
Free to download. No credit card required.
Your POTS Care Plan
This POTS tracker app includes a guided care plan designed to help you manage your condition from day one.
Record resting, standing, and active heart rates to track orthostatic changes and tachycardia episodes throughout your day
Log systolic and diastolic readings in different positions to identify blood pressure fluctuations tied to posture changes
Track daily sodium consumption and water intake to ensure you are meeting the increased requirements common in POTS management
Document presyncope events, dizziness, brain fog, and fatigue episodes with timestamps and severity ratings
Inside the App
Track heart rate, blood pressure, symptoms, and triggers for better POTS management
Why Tracking Matters for POTS
Structured self-monitoring transforms POTS from an unpredictable condition into something you can understand, measure, and manage alongside your care team.
POTS symptoms fluctuate dramatically from day to day, and even hour to hour. Without a tracking record, it is nearly impossible to explain the full scope of your condition during a 15-minute cardiology appointment. A POTS tracker app gives you a structured way to capture heart rate variability, positional changes, fluid intake, and symptom severity so that your data tells the story your memory cannot.
Over weeks of consistent logging, patterns emerge that are invisible in the moment. You might discover that your tachycardia is worse on days when you consumed less than two liters of water, that compression garments reduce your standing heart rate by 15 bpm, or that high-sodium meals in the morning prevent afternoon crashes. These concrete observations help you and your specialist fine-tune your treatment plan with real data instead of guesswork.
For those managing POTS alongside other conditions like Ehlers-Danlos syndrome or mast cell activation syndrome, tracked data becomes even more valuable. Your care team can see how symptoms interact across conditions, identify which interventions help the most, and adjust medications based on objective trends rather than recall alone.
What You Can Expect
Based on evidence-informed approaches to autonomic dysfunction management, consistent use of a POTS tracker app with structured tracking and guided care plans may support the following outcomes.
Positional heart rate and blood pressure logging helps you understand exactly how your body responds to standing. By recording supine, seated, and standing vitals at consistent times, you build a dataset that reveals your personal orthostatic tolerance thresholds and which times of day are safest for activity.
Daily heart rate tracking across positions reveals whether your tachycardia follows predictable patterns tied to hydration, sleep, menstrual cycle, temperature, or medication timing. Identifying these correlations empowers you to take preventive action before symptoms escalate.
Tracking near-fainting events alongside fluid intake, salt consumption, and activity levels helps you identify the combination of factors that precede presyncope. With enough data, you can build a personal early-warning system and intervene before lightheadedness progresses to a fall.
Generate reports from your tracked data that give your cardiologist a clear picture of your daily autonomic function. Instead of describing symptoms from memory, you share objective heart rate trends, blood pressure logs, and symptom frequency data that supports more precise treatment adjustments.
Daily fluid and sodium intake tracking paired with symptom logging reveals your personal hydration threshold. Many POTS patients need 2 to 3 liters of water and 3,000 to 10,000 mg of sodium daily, and tracking helps you find the amounts that keep your symptoms under control.
Log exercise type, duration, and post-exertion symptom severity to discover your personal activity limits. Tracking helps you build a graded exercise plan that increases cardiovascular fitness without triggering symptom flares, which is a cornerstone of long-term POTS management.
Individual results vary. This app supports self-management and is not a substitute for a qualified healthcare professional. Always consult your doctor regarding any medical condition.
Understanding POTS
What postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome is, how it affects the autonomic nervous system, and why structured tracking is essential for management.
Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) is a form of autonomic nervous system dysfunction characterized by an excessive increase in heart rate upon standing, typically 30 beats per minute or more within 10 minutes of moving from a supine to an upright position. Unlike simple orthostatic hypotension, POTS involves a complex interplay of cardiovascular, neurological, and immune system factors that produce a wide range of symptoms beyond tachycardia alone.
POTS affects an estimated 1 to 3 million Americans, with the majority being women between the ages of 15 and 50. The condition frequently develops after viral infections, surgery, pregnancy, or trauma. Common symptoms include lightheadedness, brain fog, fatigue, exercise intolerance, gastrointestinal disturbances, and temperature sensitivity. Many patients also have comorbid conditions such as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, mast cell activation syndrome, or small fiber neuropathy.
Because POTS symptoms fluctuate significantly based on hydration, sleep, temperature, hormonal cycles, and activity levels, consistent symptom tracking is one of the most valuable tools for both patients and their care teams. Tracked data helps cardiologists and dysautonomia specialists identify triggers, measure treatment response, and adjust interventions with precision that symptom recall during appointments cannot provide.
What to Track for POTS
These are the key symptoms and metrics that help you and your care team understand your POTS patterns. Track as many as apply to your experience.
Tracking Tips for POTS
Practical advice to help you get the most out of your tracking practice.
Measure your heart rate and blood pressure while lying down, then again after standing for 1, 3, 5, and 10 minutes. Doing this at the same time each morning creates a consistent baseline that shows your cardiologist exactly how your autonomic nervous system is functioning day to day. This simple routine takes five minutes and provides the most actionable data point in POTS management.
Log every glass of water and electrolyte drink as you consume it, not at the end of the day from memory. Many POTS patients discover that their worst symptom days correlate directly with falling below their personal hydration threshold. Tracking in real time lets you course-correct before dehydration triggers a tachycardia flare.
Record the ambient temperature, whether you were indoors or outdoors, and how long you were standing when symptoms occur. Heat intolerance is extremely common in POTS, and tracking environmental context alongside vitals reveals whether weather, hot showers, or crowded indoor spaces are driving your worst episodes.
On days when you feel well, log everything you did differently: sleep duration, sodium intake, exercise, compression garment use, and medication timing. When you compare good-day logs against bad-day logs side by side, the factors that make the biggest difference become obvious. This comparison is one of the most powerful tools for building a sustainable daily routine.
How It Works
Getting started with this POTS tracker app takes just three simple steps.
Set Up Your POTS Profile
Choose which POTS symptoms to track, add your medications and supplements, and set reminder times for daily vitals. The app adapts to your specific autonomic dysfunction profile.
Log Your Daily Vitals
Record heart rate, blood pressure, fluid intake, salt consumption, and symptom severity throughout the day. Log your morning standing test and note any presyncope episodes. The entire check-in takes about 60 seconds.
Share Insights With Your Specialist
Review trend charts showing heart rate patterns, hydration correlations, and symptom triggers. Export reports to share with your cardiologist or dysautonomia specialist before your next appointment.
Cardiovascular Tracking for POTS
Purpose-built for the unique cardiovascular and autonomic challenges of POTS. Monitor the metrics that matter most for managing tachycardia and orthostatic symptoms.
Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and ECG Visualization
Sync HRV data from Apple Watch and view ECG readings alongside daily symptoms. Track how your heart rate variability changes with position changes, salt intake, hydration, and medication timing. Visualize trends that help your cardiologist optimize your treatment.
VO2 and Exercise Tolerance Tracking
Monitor your exercise tolerance and VO2 levels over time. Track how deconditioning protocols, graded exercise, and recumbent workouts affect your ability to be upright. See whether your exercise tolerance is gradually improving with treatment.
Salt and Sodium Intake Monitoring
Track daily sodium intake alongside heart rate and symptom data. Many POTS patients are prescribed 3 to 10 grams of sodium daily. Log your salt loading, see whether higher sodium days correlate with fewer tachycardia episodes, and share the data with your electrophysiologist.
Orthostatic Symptom Logging
Record symptoms tied to position changes: standing heart rate spikes, presyncope, visual graying, coat hanger headaches, and blood pooling. Track lying, sitting, and standing heart rate to document orthostatic intolerance for your provider.
Hydration and Electrolyte Tracking
Log fluid intake from 150+ beverage types including electrolyte drinks, IV saline days, and plain water. Set hydration reminders and correlate your fluid intake with tachycardia frequency and orthostatic symptoms.
Long COVID Dysautonomia Support
Post-COVID POTS and dysautonomia are increasingly common. Track autonomic symptoms alongside fatigue, brain fog, and exercise intolerance. Monitor your recovery trajectory and share longitudinal data with your autonomic specialist.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about using a POTS tracker for self-management.
Track your POTS. Tame the dysautonomia.
Heart rate, hydration, salt intake, position changes, and symptom severity all connect. Daily tracking reveals which interventions actually stabilize your autonomic nervous system.
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This app is not a medical device and is not a substitute for a qualified healthcare professional. Always consult your doctor for medical advice. Content is for informational purposes only.