My health

For the past few days I've been feeling rotten. It's the same old thing that bothers me from time to time, somehow related to my blood pressure (too low) and my digestive system. For years I've been taking a daily medicine that was supposed to raise my blood pressure to more stable levels. On top of that I was taking another drug that, in theory, helps my system to cope with the ups and downs of life, stress and that sort of thing can alter my pressure and when that drop my system get all confused and it takes hours to self regulate, hours when I feel really bad and then I'm left totally drained.

During the past last year my life has been very eventful and, of course, stressful, but I agreed with my doctor in Bristol that as my blood pressure was more stable, I should start to reduce the drugs ever so slowly. Now I'm not taking the blood pressure regulator anymore and the other one I take once every other day and the idea is stop it altogether as soon as possible. Ideally, I'd like to live without taking medicines. The logic behind this was that as people grow older the blood pressure usually increased and that as life gets into a routine there's less reasons for stress.
So far that was working. But when I last talked to the specialist in Bristol (around January last year) he did say that hot weather could also cause the blood pressure to drop and that I should be careful with the hot weather in Spain. To be honest, I totally dismissed that on the basis that as I grew up in a very hot climate anyway, so that shouldn't bother me.

Well... now I've spend almost a week of feeling terrible. I'm eating very little (that's no bad for summer, so I'm not complaining about that) and whatever I eat causes me pain, discomfort and, finally, diarrhea. I don't sleep well and I'm feeling generally bad, bad, bad. I even cancelled a class last week because I couldn't get out of the toilet!! And I always made a point of not letting my feeling sick stop me for doing whatever I need to do.

I've just soldiered on until now, but this is taking longer than I though and now on top on feeling bad I do feel hungry and that's the final straw. I hate to feel hungry.
I'm going to see my Spanish GP next week. I was dreading that this will happen, as it took ages in Bristol until a specialist found out more or less what the problem was and I'd hate to go through all that again. I'm not looking forward to test how the Spanish health system works.

Wish me luck.