Christina Applegate has a theory about why she was wrongly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis: she was poisoned.
The “Married With Children” and “Dead to Me” star was inundated with well-meaning suggestions following the revelation of her misdiagnosis, but one stood out, Applegate recounted on Tuesday’s episode of her “Messy” podcast with co-host Jamie Lynn Sigler.
“I’ve been thinking about this for years: breast implant poisoning,” she said. “I actually had my double mastectomy in 2008, and I should have had them replaced a long time ago, and I swear for the last five years or whatever I’ve been thinking, ‘What if it was – seriously – what if they leaked and they poisoned me?’
Someone sent her a study on breast implant leaks and poisonings presenting as MS, Applegate said, recounting some of her symptoms.
On the one hand, she said, “I’m sleeping, Jamie. I can’t stop sleeping. I slept, I think, most of the day yesterday. I had like one thing that was important for me to do and other than that, I’m like – I’m sleeping right now.”
And then there is the pain.
“I don’t know what’s going on in my joints, but I can’t move my right shoulder at all now. I can’t lift my arm. I have all sorts of other things going on,” Applegate told “Sopranos” star Sigler, who has lived with MS for more than a decade. “It takes me at least 10 minutes to sit up and get out of bed, because I hurt everywhere. And I don’t know if I’m doing this to myself by sleeping too much.”
MS is a disease of the central nervous system (brain, spinal cord, optic nerves) that “disrupts the flow of information within the brain and between the brain and the rest of the body,” according to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Symptoms may include fatigue, memory and mobility problems, mood swings, numbness, pain, tingling, and visual impairment.
Applegate then regaled her co-host with a Halloween story that saw her miraculously walk down the stairs of her home without the help of her caregiver when she thought she heard her daughter Sadie, 15, screaming outside.
“You know that superhuman thing about being a mom, like the mom is always lifting the car? I got on a plane. I don’t know how I did that. I got on a plane and I was in the driver’s seat of the car before (my caregiver) could even get out of what she was doing. She was like, ‘How did you get here?’ And I’m like, ‘I don’t know, man.’
When they headed towards the “bloodcurdling screams”, they discovered that it was a couple in conflict, who apparently did not need help.
“My friend came out and said, ‘Hey, do you need help? … We can call the police.’ And this is what the girl said: She said, “Get off my property, bitch. I’m going to kill you. So we said, ‘Chick, you’re on your own.’ So I hope it works for you. I hope those Bloody Marys treat you well in the morning you’ve had a….’
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