Challenges That Change Us

127 {Caelum Schild} When grief symptoms mask a chronic illness

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Listeners of the podcast know I have been diagnosed with POTS or Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. This is something many people can spend years suffering through before ever getting an official diagnosis, and one man who knows that well is Caelum Schild.

Caelum, an Accredited Exercise Physiologist with over 12 years of experience in hospital rehabilitation, private practice, and GP clinics.

After his own battles with POTS and other health conditions, he founded Lofty Health and Wellness to offer specialized allied health services for individuals with conditions like POTS, ME/CFS, EDS, fibromyalgia, long COVID, and other invisible illnesses.

In this episode Caelum shares:


  • The early injuries that got him interested in how the human body works
  • What hyper mobility is and why it is a sign of something more
  • What made him aware there was something different with him and his body
  • The time his POTS symptoms were confused as depression over the loss of his sister
  • How he figured out he was misdiagnosed
  • What a bad day looked like for him at the start of his journey
  • The narratives he told himself as he struggled with his health
  • How he manages the fear and uncertainty that comes with POTS
  • How he got involved with the pots foundation
  • How the stresses of life have made his POTs worse
  • The reason why he does what he does
  • The fundraiser he is doing


Key Quotes

 

“I would just have to go to the toilet and have a lay down, at 9 o’clock in the morning.”


"That extra stress and then the impact on your sleep and then you just find that you don't have that energy come the end of the week and it just starts to disrupt everything."


More about Caelum

You can find out more about his services: https://loftyhealth.com.au/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/loftyhealthandwellness/


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