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Since With her 2021 multiple sclerosis was diagnosed, speaks Christina Applegate openly about her life with this chronic illness. In a recently broadcast sequence of your podcast Messywhich she moderated together with Jamie-Lynn Sigler, the actress announced that she has been in the hospital more than 30 times in the past three years.
“You carried out every test to me. And polluted my body with so much radiation, from CT scans to everything else,” says Christina Applegate. The reason for the Hospital visits, She explained that rows of vomiting to diarrhea to pain. She recently started looking for possible explanations for the ‘unimaginable’ frequency of these events.
“I literally found it out last month,” said Applegate. “Maybe it is not what happens. But I tell you anyway. Talk to your doctor about motility problems, okay. One of the things at MS is that you slow down our organs. But the function of your organs is slowed down. I have found that – and I want to be honest – if I have to poop.
“On Thursday I have my colonoscopy”
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The National Multiple Sclerosis Society estimates that almost a million people in the United States live with MS, as can be seen from a study by the 2019 organization.
“On Thursday I have my colonoscopy and will have a conversation with the big boys.” I know that you say that I am crazy and come here for no reason. But now I see a pattern, “said Appegate. “My neurologist, God blessing her, says that this has nothing to do with MS. I’m sorry. But there has to be a connection here, and I am not a doctor. I don’t give a medical advice. I just say, think about it, okay? Because I’m exactly in the same situation. And it’s damn shitty and frightening.”
Last year, Appegate described the often unbearable pain in a episode of the podcast, which she suffered due to chronic autoimmune disease. “I lie in bed and scream. Because of the stinging pain, the pain, the squeezing,” she said at the time.
“Sometimes I can’t even take my cell phone in my hand. Because it has now hiked in my hands, so I try to take my cell phone or my remote control to turn on the TV. Or sometimes I can’t even hold it. I can’t open any bottles now.”