New GP

New GP opened just down the road last week. Went for a 'new patient check-up' thing with the nurse last week and she goes 'ooh your blood pressure's a bit high, we need to keep an eye on that'. Yeah, fair enough, my blood pressure yo-yos up and down constantly. Anyhow, went to see my new GP today, he checked my blood pressure again and goes 'oooh that's ridiculously low that can't be right how are you still standing?' Well, I'm feeling rather faint and dizzy mister and leaning on Rambo to stop myself falling over, that's how. Explained to him about my POTS/POH and we left it a few minutes of me sitting down then tried it again and it was back to normal. Yay me. He's a bit worried and wants to keep an eye on it though, once a week or so. How I hate having my blood pressure taken...

Anyhow, about new GP...uhh, what can I say? He's lovely! Believed me when I explained about my problems, didn't try to argue at all or laugh me out of his office. I love that. All my mental problems of feeling like a fraud make talking to doctors extremely difficult for me usually, but this guy was alright. He gave me some new painkillers to try, which I'm not entirely happy about but at least he's trying, I guess. I just don't see how Co-Dydramol is going to be any help when we already know Co-Codamol does nothing. (Hey, Paracetamol and Codeine don't work, let's put them together in a slightly different way!) Even asked me about a wheelchair as he saw the difficulty I was having walking to his office. Can't give me one yet, as I'm still awaiting a formal diagnosis from the rheumatologist, but insisted that I tell him as soon as I have one so that he can give me a chair.