Christina Applegate's 13-Year-Old Daughter Sadie Reveals POTS Diagnosis

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Christina Applegate‘s daughter is opening up about her own health issues. During the Tuesday (June 25) episode of her mom’s MeSy podcast, the 52-year-old Dead to Me actress’ daughter Sadie appeared as a guest and revealed that she has been diagnosed with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). Keep reading to find out more…“It affects my heart, and 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,” Sadie, 13, explained. “I have fainted before, and I have gone unconscious.” POTS is a condition that “causes a number of symptoms when you transition from lying down to standing up, such as a fast heart rate, dizziness and fatigue.

While there’s no cure, several treatments and lifestyle changes can help manage the symptoms of POTS,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.

Although she received her diagnosis a few months ago, Sadie said that she’s been dealing with the condition “for a long time,” recalling visiting the school nurse “multiple times a day” in the sixth grade because she often felt like she was going to pass out.

According to Sadie, the school said that her conditions were attributed to anxiety. “They wouldn’t do anything for it, and that definitely was hard, because I genuinely felt so sick, and I was in a lot of pain,” Sadie admitted. “It definitely hurt me, physically and emotionally.” Sadie said that she first started to experience symptoms in 2020, explaining that “every time I stood up, I just felt like my whole world was just about to go crashing down and my vision would get blurry.” Christina, who revealed her multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis in 2021, admitted that at first she didn’t realize what Sadie was dealing with. “I feel