What are the symptoms of MVPS/Dysautonomia/Orthostatic Intolerance?
There is Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP) and there is Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome / Dysautonomia (MVPS/D). This page and group are concerned not with the heart valve problem, MVP, but the collection of symptoms that have come to be known as MVP Syndrome, a kind of dysautonomia where it is particularly challenging to be upright and still. That is why it is also called a type of orthostatic intolerance (OI). 40% of patients with Mitral Valve Prolapse (heart click or murmur from regurgitation) and many people with CFS and FM have an imbalance of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) called, in general, a dysautonomia. POTS and NMH are also forms of dysautonomia. The ANS is composed of two systems; the parasympathetic and the sympathetic. It controls involuntary body functions, such as respiration, heartbeat, blood pressure, vision, and digestion. When this system is out of balance it can cause a myriad of symptoms, including chest pain, panic attacks, anxiety, fatigue, migraines, irritable bo
