Mary, 28. Amorius (Marie Amoureux) read an article on Facebook about a woman in Australia who had a deep venous thrombosis but found that the symptoms were the same as her own.
But she was not ill. At least according to the general practitioner, she is not ill. She went to see a doctor three times, claiming that she was short of breath and pain in her left leg.
"before I finished reading, I cried out," said Amorius.
She was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS),) at the age of 20 and used steroids after complications of rupture of the cyst and had been taking contraceptive.
None of this seemed to have alerted the doctor, whose doctor told her to go to the pain clinic.
He didn't even look at my legs, she said, and shortness of breath was caused by steroids.
Unbelievably, Amorius's contraceptive and steroids could kill her.
After reading the online article, she went straight to another doctor's office for a second opinion. As a result, she was told her legs were covered with blood clots that had spread to her lungs.
The new state girl said, "the doctor told me I had a severe pulmonary embolism and would die if I didn't." It would be horrible if I hadn't read that article on Facebook, and I would have died of these clots. "
After a week in the hospital, she had to endure months of injection of blood thinners until the symptoms disappeared, but this was not the last time she had met a quack.
She was already fighting death. Unfortunately, a hematologist gave her another drug that could cause clots.
Later, the "busy" doctor apologized and said he was unaware of Amorius's medical history, but the experience worried her.
Amorius wants more medical professionals to name the risks involved in prescription drugs so that no one else will suffer as much as she does.