Chronic illness rant

I'm so, so tired of people not understanding my chronic illnesses. They think I'm fine, just being dramatic and should be able to push through everything. I have a lung disease that is incurable and is slowly going to kill me, and I have never smoked a day in my life. Every year my long function gets worse and I get infections monthly which often takes hospitalization and iv meds for about a week to make it go away. Even the slightest cold turns to infection.

I have fibromyalgia as well, which makes it so much harder to move around most days. I take medication for it, but most days it doesn't do much, and God forbid it be raining, snowing, or cold outside (the weather effects me a ton)..

I get pissed even more when people ask why I'm so tired, they say assumingly that I'm young and healthy and don't have a reason to be in so much pain and tired. Then these people get a cold and act like they're dying. I want so badly to say that they should be chronically ill everyday of their life, unable to breathe like everyone else can. Knowing it's only going to get worse and kill you. Knowing the surgeries you are likely to face within 10 years. Yet they're acting like they're so sick when they have a cold that will go away in a few days by itself.. because they're not chronically ill.

It's just very hard and I really wish people who didn't understand could feel what I feel everyday for just a day and see how well they would do.