Last 20 days were really bad. It was like my (s)exciting life had come to a standstill. Whether it is about Bush’s visit to India or it was about Indian cricket series with England – nothing affected me. It is true that all the problems of the world look trivial, when you are down with ill health. After my trip to B’lore, I was completely exhausted, and was told to have low blood pressure and weakness. To be honest more than the disease it is the fear of disease that affects you the most. You can make a cancer patient live a couple of years more without telling him his problem than by honestly letting him know about his ailment is.
I spoke to couple of friends and did a google search to know what exactly this low blood pressure was all about. Some said low blood pressure is worse than high blood pressure. And some said – you can even die of cardiac arrest due to low blood pressure. Some said, eat a lot, and you will be fine. And I started eating all that was available at home. With the amount of stuff I ate, I am sure my wife has already become tired of me. I had to cure myself in 3 months maximum - through chanting or meditation or yoga or any medication, but nothing was working out. I did an astro reading for myself, and thankfully I was running a bad antara –I understood the cause of the sickness. Once you understand the cause of a problem, the solution becomes easier to be found out. I came to understand that astrologically I was running a bad time from February 12 till March 4th. And to my surprise I fell sick exactly on February 12th, hence I told my wife that I should be alright after March 4th.
After bringing a better pattern in my eating schedule I checked my Blood Pressure twice with the docs, and they said it was normal. But I still had this dizziness happening with a twitching pain in my right eye ball. I was quite clueless. What else can I do in the time of dismay – pray. My wife said let us go to Thiruvannamalai and meet our family doctor.
I had blogged about this particular doctor a couple of times before, when my daughter was suffering from primary complex. Of course Chennai is BIG, and we have the best doctors here - but I somehow didn’t find any of them able to find out the problem (my and my daughter’s) efficiently (and the feedbacks I hear about Malar hospital and Apollo hospital are scary). The physician we consult is basically an Australian born doctor, who initially was an assistant to a doctor in Thiruvannamalai. He had started practicing as a doctor even before he got enrolled himself into a medical college. He was indeed successful in curing people, but then the jealousy of the so called real doctors around forced him to enroll in medical college much later. He completed his MBBS, and has set up a hospital in Thiruvannamalai. He can very well move off to Australia, and start making monies in dollars, but then he says there are plenty of doctors in Australia, let me serve the Indians.
We met him yesterday, and I told him that I have low Blood Pressure. He said, “remove this misconception that Low Blood Pressure is a disease.’ He said it is just a condition. There are only 2 things – normal BP and high BP. Low BP happens to all in any particular condition– like too much of travel, high stress, or even when you have loose motion. So, people don’t die of low blood pressure, but they die of something that forces the blood pressure to fall – it could happen out of sun stroke or even dehydration!
He asked me to take an x-ray for the complaints I had, and he was right. I had this paravertebral muscle spasm, which lead to the eye-ball ache and invariably to giddiness. And what is the main cause for this spasm? Too much use of computers! And what is divine reason behind this ailment? It is just that God wants me to learn some Kriya Yoga!