I have been sick for the past year and a half.. I am  20 years old and have bad asthma that left me in and out of the hospital every month for the past year. After I finally got that under control after switching primary care doctors (she said it was anxiety and not asthma which was not true). In February I was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism which are blood clots in my lungs. I have bad anxiety and I think I have ptsd from the fact that I almost lost my life from these clots.. I am on blood thinners for life now and also have had many scares that the I have formed more clots and I’m getting worse. I have gone for many tests to try and find out why a rather healthy 20 year old could have such thing and all the tests came back normal. Not to mention I was misdiagnosed 3 times before my doctor said let’s “rule out” blood clots. I was in the er the night before and sent home with a diagnosis of the flu when really it was something life threatening thatbshould have been treated then. 

I just feel so alone. My family doesn’t believe me that I am still sick because the recovery from such a traumatic thing like I suffered could take years before I feel normal. Every appointment and scan I go through brings back horrible memories. No one gets what I’m going through or even bothers to ask how I am. I have lost my job and all my friends due to being so sick. I just want to live a normal carefree life again. I am now on so many medications I can’t even keep them straight. My anxiety is through the roof when I don’t feel good in fear that I’ll get another clot because of it being unknown why I got one in the first place. I just feel so alone!