Reality TV star Kerry Katona has shared a health update to her fans after she struggled with “crippling pain’ in her back.
The former Atomic Kitten star has been diagnosed with scoliosis, which affects the spine and can cause symptoms such as a visibly curved spine, leaning to one side and uneven shoulders as well as back pain.
Kerry, who has previously been bed bound with the pain in her back, joins other famous faces with the condition including Princess Eugenie.
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Speaking in her weekly column for OK! Magazine, Kerry has opened up about receiving her diagnosis.
Kerry told readers: “I was diagnosed with scoliosis last week, after having trouble with my back.
“I went to a chiropractor and had an X-ray, which showed that half of my brain doesn’t work like the other half.
“Honestly, I’ve been in such a bad way, but thankfully, I’m now on a recovery plan which has been much better.”
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Kerry also told readers that she would “have to live with” the back condition, and that she’s still had several “eye-opening” tests to investigate how her brain works unde rthe medical care of her doctors.
The star had suffered so badly with back pain that she was even forced to cancel her “No Regrets” tour and has even been in such pain that she was close to taking herself to the nearest Accident & Emergency department.
She shared her disappointment at being forced to cancel her tour as she said: “I literally can’t do anything and I had to pull my weekend tour, I couldn’t go ahead with it and felt terrible.”
Kerry also shared an update on her condition on her Instagram as she shared a video with fans with an oxygen mask on but she urged them not to worry as she wrote: “DONT WORRY I’m in safe hands with @doctor.andrebd in the hyperbaric oxygen chamber!!! so I have recently been diagnosed with scoliosis and I’m here for some help on the pain!!”
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Earlier this year Kerry told fans she was “in agony” due to an arthritis flare up in her back and hips that left her bed bound and feeling like her body was “shutting down”.
Writing on Instagram in May she said: “So I’ve been out of action because I hurt my back and my hips. So I have arthritis in my hips. Bear with me.
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“Trying to do a workout, my hips are killing, so I’m not pushing it… I get these shooting pains in my legs like I’m getting an electric shock. And my god it really really hurts.”
She added: “I’m trying to train and my left hip is really really tight in that joint, to the point I have been in tears. Crying. Like in so much pain.
“Imagine a fly, and you want to pull its wings off, that’s what I want you to do, pull my legs off, that’s the pain I’ve been feeling, it’s been horrendous. Horrendous. I had a massage, and I could not move. So I have literally stayed in bed.”
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