Bella Hadid Reveals Ongoing Struggles Living With Chronic Illness: ‘The Medical Anxiety Is So Real’

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Bella Hadid opens up about her ongoing battle with chronic illness, revealing how real and overwhelming medical anxiety can be.Here’s everything what she has been dealing with.

Bella Hadid Reveals Ongoing Struggles Living With Chronic Illness: 'The Medical Anxiety Is So Real' — Bella Hadid Reveals Ongoing Struggles Living With Chronic IllnessThe Medical Anxiety Is So Real

Supermodel Bella Hadid has publicly shared her long-term struggle with chronic illness, admitting that the anxiety she faces around her health is so real. In her stories, she posted on Instagram on November 14, she reposted a meme about the relentless nature of chronic illness. The Meme read, “When your chronic illness is chronic illnessing and someone says it’s always something with you, yes, one might say the illness is chronic”. Rather than captioning it, she let the image speak for itself.

In other story, she shared a post by influencer Alexandra Wildeson that dealt with the ” duality” of having a chronic condition and added her own voice, saying,” The medical anxiety is soooooo real, Thank you for putting every one of my thoughts and daily situations into one swipe. The truuuuuth”.

Bella has been open about her medical condition. During the month of September, she also posted her photos from the hospital when she was receiving treatment for lyme disease. Not only this, but she also shared her pictures of working out again.Her mother, Yolanda Hadid, has also been concerned and worried about her. She described her daughter as a warrior and how watching her daughter going through such an illness is excruciatingly painful.Bella was first diagnosed with lyme disease when she was 16.Her mother describes that her symptoms have included joint pain, chronic fatigue, brain fog and anxiety. Her mother expressed that there are even days wen she sleeps for 12 hours but again cannot get out of bed.

Bella Hadid Diagnosed With Lyme Disease

Lyme disease is a type where it can feel extremely painful and fatiguing, it is caused by Borrelia bacteria which are typically spread through the bite of infected ticks. The symptoms can also vary from person to person and develop in phases.

Persistent Fatigue

You can start feeling fatigued all the time, even after resting up. This is not any normal day tiredness, but it affects your daily activities, and many patients even report fatigue as one of their primary signs that they experience.

Neurological Symptoms

Neurological symptoms are other common symptoms of lyme disease. These symptoms also include numbness in the body. You might also experience tingling and shooting pains and in worst cases, it can go up to facial paralysis. Not only this, but patient also report, brain fog and memory issues.

Fever And Flu Symptoms

If you experience any fever or flu, it can be an indication to early stage Lyme disease because a person might suffer from it, and it can be confused as symptoms are not static, it comes with fever, chills and headaches.

Skin Rash

It’s a very common sign, it may appear after some days, but it’s not important that everyone who has this disease might develop a rash

Joint Pain And Swelling

The pain moves from one joint to another, and bacteria can attack your joints. It often affects knees and elbows, which makes the pain really worse.

Heart And Eye Complications

Lyme disease can also cause a lot of pain in the chest, not only the chest, but also eye inflammation too. Some patients experience blurred vision and sensitivity to light as well.

Some precautions can be taken, like wearing light coloured and long-sleeved shirts and pants, so that you can protect yourself against the ticks, applying insect repellents is another way that can help you keep protected from ticks and unwanted insects. Try using control products on your pets so that they do not get ticks.

Overall, It’s treatment is antibiotic-based and for many patients just a course of 10 to 14 days of oral antibiotics is enough. Bella Hadid has not just opened about her chronic illness but this time she has also shed light towards that how deeply physical illness can affect mental health too.