For several years, Christina Applegate thought she was living with multiple sclerosis (MS). So, imagine her surprise when she found out that she doesn’t have this disease at all. On the surface, that might sound like good news, but Christina doesn’t see it that way. After all, her symptoms haven’t gone away. Nothing has really changed for her, except she’s now back to searching for answers.
During a recent episode of her podcast, she shared one theory that she hopes to look into: What if her debilitating symptoms have been caused by her breast implants?
Christina said she has questioned this for some time now.
Naturally, now that she knows she was misdiagnosed with MS, she seems to be giving this theory more attention. On the November 10 episode of her MeSsy podcast, she revealed that a text she received from someone helped remind her of this concern she had about breast implants.
“The one [text] that I found interesting that someone sent me, and I’ve been thinking this for years, is the breast implant poisoning,” she said. “Because I actually had my double mastectomy in 2008 and I am way overdue for having them replaced.” According to her, the study that she read mentioned that illness caused by breast implants could be “presenting as MS.”
“And I swear, over the last five years or whatever, I thought, seriously, what if they’re leaking and they’re poisoning me?” she continued. She noted that this is something she plans on “looking into” because “it’s something I’ve thought about.”
Christina had a double mastectomy after her 2008 breast cancer diagnosis. She later underwent breast reconstruction surgery.
She previously spoke about how she’s still living with the same symptoms.
So, when her doctor told her she had been misdiagnosed with MS, she didn’t see it as a reason to celebrate. While “everybody else was so happy” at the time, Christina was admittedly “not happy at all.”
Sadly, when she received the news, “nothing magical happened,” which means she’s “back at square one.”
She previously explained, “You don’t get misdiagnosed and then all of the sudden I’m better. I haven’t gotten better… if anything, I’ve gotten worst.”
Christina recently mentioned some of the symptoms that are affecting her life.
Searching for answers after receiving the news about her misdiagnosis has actually been “overwhelming,” she admitted on the recent podcast episode. At this point, there are so many different possibilities in addition to the breast implant concern she mentioned.
And, of course, she’s still living with the symptoms while trying to figure this out. “It’s overwhelming, because there’s so many different things that could be going on,” she said. “And this pain stuff, I don’t know what’s going on in my joints, but like, I can’t move my right shoulder at all now. I can’t lift my arm.”
The mysterious health issue that Christina is dealing with has caused her to “hurt all over,” and she also finds herself “sleeping too much.” Just after she learned that she’d been misdiagnosed, she said, “I still have to use wheelchairs when I go to the doctor’s office. I can’t walk from the car to the room. I’m still in this.”
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