It started off as a DVT in my leg and then moved into my lungs. I was hospitalised for 5 days, the doctors initially thought that I may have also had coronavirus as well. Thankfully my test came back negative, but the scans showed multiple large clots across both sides of my lungs. I was age 27 and was fit and healthy before this happened.
After many tests, the doctors put the main cause down to my contraceptive pill, and also partly down to being quite stationary throughout the day. I work full time as a customer services advisor, so am sat at a desk for most of the day.
In May 2020, aged 27, I began to feel a niggling pain in the calf of my leg, a dull ache. I'd recently started trying to get back into regular exercise at home due to the first lockdown, so I put it down to pulling a muscle when exercising. A few days later, I also started getting sharp chest pains. Sadly my Grandpa had passed away in April, and his funeral had been held the day before I started getting chest pains so I again dismissed it initially, thinking it was stress related.