Christina Applegate revealed she has been hospitalized over 30 times for “unimaginable” pain from gastrointestinal points amid her battle with multiple sclerosis.
During the one-year anniversary episode her “MesSy” podcast with Jamie-Lynn Sigler, the “Married… with Children” alum detailed her experience with the autoimmune disease after a listener wrote in that she was “throwing up and having diarrhea every single day.”
“This is really important because for three years, since I was diagnosed, I’ve been in the hospital upwards of 30 times from throwing up and diarrhea and pain that is unimaginable,” Applegate, 53, stated on Tuesday’s present.
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“They’ve done every test known to man on me, put so much radiation into my body from CT scans to everything else,” she continued.
Applegate shared that she thinks she found the reason for her signs throughout the final month.
“Now, maybe this isn’t what’s happening, but I’m just gonna tell you this: Talk to your doctor about motility issues, OK? Because one of the things with MS is that it slows down our organs — not completely, but there is a slowing of the function of your organs,” the actress stated.
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The “Dead to Me” alum additional divulged that typically her physique works double obligation when she makes use of the lavatory.
“I’m gonna be really honest, if I have to poop, I puke. And when I puke, I get all the pain, and then all the things happen,” she stated, calling the bodily response “the fight club.”
“So, there’s this really horrible argument,” Applegate defined. “It’s like everyone’s fighting with each other.”
However, the “Bad Moms” star stated medical doctors have informed her that the signs are unrelated to her MS.
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But that hasn’t stopped Applegate from advocating for herself, together with stepping into for a colonoscopy this week and having a “big conversation” with her medical crew.
“There’s gotta be a correlation here,” she stated on the podcast.
The “Sweetest Thing” actress was diagnosed with MS in early 2021.
In March 2024, she revealed to People that she has to wear diapers “because you probably can’t get to the bathroom in time.”
