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Christina Applegate is reflecting on her health.
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The actress says she deals with daily pain and can’t move her shoulder amid her battle with an unknown illness.
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Applegate recently revealed that she’d been misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
Christina Applegate is speaking candidly about her experience navigating her undiagnosed illness.
The actress, 54, revealed on a recent episode of the MeSsy podcast that she’s still “trying to figure out what’s wrong with me” after recently discovering that she’d been misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
“It’s overwhelming, because there’s so many different things that could be going on,” Applegate told her cohost, Jamie-Lynn Sigler. “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.”
US actress Christina Applegate poses for photos with her newly unveiled Hollywood Walk of Fame star in Hollywood, California, on November 14, 2022.
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The Anchorman star shared that she’s “got all sorts of other things going on” with her body, too.
“It takes me 10 minutes at least to even sit up and get out of my bed, because I’m just… I just hurt all over,” she said. “And I don’t know if I’m doing that to myself by sleeping too much.”
Sigler pointed out that the daily pain Applegate is feeling likely makes her want to rest and encouraged her to stay active.
“There’s this little hill we’ve got to push you up over,” she replied. “Whether it’s with physical hands helping you, we’ve got to get your body, like, moving a little bit, right?”
Applegate noted that she participates in physical therapy and occupational therapy every week, but still struggles to travel downstairs. “That’s really hard,” she added.
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Still, the actress and health advocate revealed that she received a text message that may lead her on the path to finding a diagnosis for her condition.
“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.”
She continued, “And I swear, over the last five years or whatever, I thought, seriously, what if they’re leaking and they’re poisoning me?”
As part of their message, Applegate explained that the individual sent over a study about breast implant poisoning that said it could present “as MS” despite having its own symptoms. “It’s one that I will be looking into,” she said, “because it’s something I’ve thought about.”
Breast implant illness, also known as BII, refers to a large collection of symptoms that occur after an individual undergoes the surgical procedure, per the Cleveland Clinic. Symptoms can include “autoimmune” and “inflammatory” reactions, including joint pain, muscle pain, and muscle weakness.
The condition is typically treated by removing the implants, but the Cleveland Clinic notes that it can take anywhere from that same day to three months for symptoms to improve.
Listen to Applegate discuss her symptoms in the podcast above.
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