Scott added: “It attacks my immune system and my nervous system and I can’t pump blood around my body. It took us a while to figure out what was wrong with me, I had to go to numerous doctors and found one that said ‘you’ve got PoTS’.
“From that, I had to do a lot of lying down exercise, a lot of lying on the floor on a bike, which looked crazy, and slowly getting my body to work for me again and get blood flowing around my body and it took a couple of months to come out of that.
“I got out of it and went on to Paris, it took me until March that year. I look back and I’m quite proud of myself for it because a lot of people maybe would have bottled it under that and thought ‘I’m so ill, I can’t do this’, but that was part of me compartmentalising and blocking out the parts I needed to block out.
Having achieved a lifelong dream by becoming an Olympic champion, Scott struggled with PoTS again earlier this year.
“It makes you feel like your body doesn’t work for you. Your health is your main concern, not rowing a boat,” added Scott.
“I was wondering if I could do my day-to-day because I was struggling to get out of bed with fatigue and that’s a really concerning place to be.
“But a lot of it I think is also part of female health and PoTS is a very common problem now post-Covid for women, and I’ve been learning this along the way.”