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Christina Applegate Battling 30 Lesions connected her Brain Amid Painful MS Journey
Christina Applegate is getting candid astir a crappy experience.
The Dead to Me star graphically elaborate her caller bout of sapovirus, a microorganism commonly transmitted done fecal-oral contact, colorfully joking that the unwellness led to "pissing retired of my ass for a fewer days."
"I'm gonna beryllium gross," Christina—who besides struggles with aggregate sclerosis—shared connected the April 23 occurrence of her MeSsy podcast. "I woke up astatine 3 o'clock successful the greeting successful a excavation of s--t. Didn't cognize it happened, and having MS astatine 3 o'clock successful the greeting and trying to alteration your sheets, it's not fun."
According to Christina, the wellness ordeal each began a fewer weeks agone erstwhile someone "real close" to her "dropped the ball" and brought location COVID-19, starring to her declaration the microorganism for the archetypal time. Due to her already being immunocompromised from MS, Christina experienced much terrible symptoms, including a thorax corruption and a speeding bosom rate.
"I was truthful dizzy," she recalled to cohost Jamie-Lynn Sigler. "I was truthful sick. I couldn't eat. I couldn't anything."
Amid her illness, Christina took a stool test—during which she started vomiting due to the fact that it was "so gross"—to fig retired what was wrong. Eventually, she was diagnosed with sapovirus.
"It is erstwhile you ingest the fecal substance of idiosyncratic other from your food," the 57-year-old explained of the virus. "Someone else's poop went into my rima and I ate it."
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Christina believes she caught the microorganism after eating a takeout crockery from a edifice that's astir to adjacent down for an unrelated reason.
"I'm astir going connected 3 weeks of being sick from this," she continued, adding sarcastically, "so that's my amusive story."
And through dealing with the sapovirus and MS, which can sometimes origin difficulties successful bladder control, Christina said she's formed immoderate superior opinions astir big diapers.
"Here's my problem: Why bash they marque them beauteous for women?" the Anchorman alum noted. "Like, 'Hey baby, you wanna get down and soiled successful my diaper lingerie with my ain urine?'"
For much of Christina's candid takes astir her wellness journey, support reading.
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Health Journey
Christina Applegate shared she was diagnosed with aggregate sclerosis successful 2021.
"Hi friends. A fewer months agone I was diagnosed with MS," she shared connected her societal media channels that August. "It's been a unusual journey. But I person been truthful supported by radical that I cognize who besides person this condition. It's been a pugnacious road. But arsenic we each know, the roadworthy keeps going. Unless immoderate a--hole blocks it."
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First Public Appearance
"Oh, by the way, I person a disease," she joked during her November 2022 Hollywood Walk of Fame induction ceremony, her archetypal nationalist quality since her MS diagnosis. "Did you not notice? I'm not adjacent wearing shoes."
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Early Symptoms
Christina believes her MS travel really began "six oregon 7 years" earlier her 2021 diagnosis.
"I noticed, particularly the archetypal play [of Dead to Me], we'd beryllium shooting and my limb would buckle," Christina explained during a March 2024 interview connected Good Morning America. "I truly conscionable enactment it disconnected arsenic being tired, oregon I'm dehydrated, oregon it's the weather. Then thing would hap for months, and I didn't wage attention."
By the clip she was shooting the Netflix series' 3rd and last season, the histrion said she was "being brought to acceptable successful a wheelchair."
"I couldn't determination that far," she recalled, "so I had to archer everybody due to the fact that I needed help."
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Making Moves
The Dead to Me prima captioned this photograph of her cane postulation amid her conflict with MS: "Walking sticks are present portion of my new normal."
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Strong Statement
Joined by her girl Sadie Grace LeNoble, Christina had a simple connection for aggregate sclerosis while attending the 2023 SAG Awards: "F U MS."
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Just Jokes
After a receiving lasting ovation astatine the 2023 Emmys, the Married...With Children alum quipped, "You're wholly shaming me with disablement by lasting up."
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Healing Through Humor
"I marque these jokes due to the fact that if I don't, I'll suffocate," Christina shared connected a March 2024 occurrence connected Armchair Expert, explaining wherefore she often pokes amusive astatine her condition. "I'll beryllium done."
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MS On Her Mind
"I person 30 lesions connected my brain," she said connected the aforesaid podcast. "My biggest 1 is down my close eye, truthful my close oculus hurts a lot."
Legions are caused by the immune strategy attacking the myelin sheath astir nerves, according to the Multiple Sclerosis Trust.
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Getting Candid
Christina hasn’t held backmost erstwhile it comes to sharing her journey.
"It sucks," the Anchorman actress told precocious nighttime speech amusement big Jimmy Kimmel of her regular struggles with MS. "I'm not going to lie. I deliberation anyone who has MS isn't going to beryllium like, 'This is the champion happening that ever happened to me!'"
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In Her Bubble
When talking astir her day-to-day beingness with the disease, Christina told Good Morning America successful March 2024, "I unrecorded benignant of successful hell."
"But I mightiness get to a spot wherever I relation a small spot better," she added. "Right now, I'm isolating, and that's benignant of however I'm dealing with it—by not going anyplace due to the fact that I don't privation to bash it. It's hard."
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The Sweetest Support
Christina credited her Sweetest Thing costar Selma Blair—who was diagnosed with MS successful 2018—for urging her to get tested for the disease.
"She said, 'You request to get checked for MS,'" Christina recalled during her GMA interview. "If not for her, it could've been mode worse."
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Friendship Never Dies
Christina confirmed that Dead to Me volition apt beryllium her past onscreen credit, telling Vanity Fair successful May 2023, "I can’t adjacent ideate going to acceptable close now."
"I’m astir apt not going to enactment on-camera again, but I'm truthful gladsome that I went retired with idiosyncratic who is by acold the top histrion I’ve ever worked with successful my full life," she said of costar Linda Cardellini, "if not the top quality I’ve ever known.
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