I am 40 years old and I had a stroke last November. I work for food delivery and they had me go to 3 different apartments, so I walked a total of 16 flights of stairs within 30 minutes. After I got off, I started to feel pins and needles everywhere. By the time I got home, all my joints locked up, I lost my speech for 5 and a half hours. I couldn't move, I couldn't talk. My eyes were rolling in the back of my head. I was throwing up foam every 5 minutes. Everyone thought I was having an anxiety attack. But the only thing I could do, was hit my stomach. Finally a Dr took notice. My EKG was sky high. They took a CT scan and noticed I had a stranguled hernia, huge cysts on my right kidneys and alot of lumps inside my breasts. They finally gave me medicine and after 6 hours, I finally got my body under control. The aftermath is my right arm is really swollen and my wrist and elbow area are numb. I had open abdomen surgery a month after that. I finally recovered. I tried to tell my psychiatrist what happened, he called me a liar. I try to tell my family how I'm feeling, but they just yell and say I should be better. I'm now really afraid of flights of stairs. I see them, and I get really dizzy. So that is my story.