I am stuck in startup! Need Advice please! 🙏🏻

Hello, I’m a 2025 graduate. During college, I did two internships. The second one was an on-campus role at a very small startup (<10 people). Because the market was rough, I joined it. But the environment wasn’t great—there were no senior devs, and even though I built things from scratch, there was no proper feedback or code reviews. After the internship, they asked me to continue at 50% of the salary mentioned in the college email, so I left. After that, I fell ill, but I still got two offers: A full-time onsite role at a fintech company A remote SDE internship with potential for higher pay Considering my health, I chose the remote internship so I could manage things better and save money. Over the next 6 months, I did a lot of security analysis on my own, shipped major features, and from the 3rd month, I was even put on on-call. I worked really hard, cleared backlog tickets, and contributed a lot. But here’s the issue: after 6 months, they didn’t discuss my full-time conversion. I kept putting in extra effort for ~15–20 days hoping it would happen. When I asked, they said I could “consider myself an FTE” and only the compensation discussion was pending. So I continued working for another month expecting that discussion—but it never happened. Then they said they’d talk after my trip to India… but another 2–3 months passed. Nothing. Now I’ve taken medical leave and stopped replying to their messages. In total, I’ve worked almost 5 extra months as an intern without any conversion. I’ve asked multiple times, but they just keep postponing. The bigger issue is—I’m sick right now. They had promised insurance for FTEs, but I’m still paying all my medical expenses myself. I honestly don’t know what to do now. How do I get my pending/retro payment cleared? Should I quit? Or should I push for conversion first and then quit? They said in april during appraisal meeting will do your discussion but in mid april I stopped working as I am mentally and physically I am unwell.

I’m in debt because of medical expenses, and things feel really stuck. I’ve also been trying for remote foreign jobs, but nothing is working out so far 😖