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So after years of going to hospital and getting misdiagnosed, I finally got a diagnosis. The obvious one that doctors before the current one didn't bother to check. When your patient tells you: my entire family has asthma while complaining about chest pain that never goes away...
You'd think that doctors would go... "Oh, maybe you have asthma. Let's check." But you'd be wrong. I was told everything else but that. Including that maybe I'm imagining that I'm sick. Meanwhile, sleeping was becoming a problem, breathing while seated an issue etc. Pure hell.
One week into medication, and might I say at the worst time possible, aka corona time, I'm sleeping like a bag of rocks. I feel like a whole new person. Knowing how many people have similar symptoms to the ones I had, I think checking for asthma should be more common than it is.
I'm sure every country has a disease prevalence and I remain convinced that Kenya's is everything and asthma. It should just be commonplace to test for it. Or medicate it. Anyway, I'm not a medic. I don't know why they didn't test for it the last 4 years...
Just glad I'm finally feeling like a human being and the pain has gone away. Though, thanks to corona virus, I have to be extremely careful now. According to NHS website, double quarantine where people are just in quarantine.
