Gardeners’ World presenter Adam Frost has been living with a chronic illness for the past 20 years
Gardeners’ World’s Adam Frost has courageously revealed his two-decade struggle with Fibromyalgia, a debilitating condition causing pain throughout the body.
During a Morning Live appearance that aired last year, the gardening expert became visibly moved whilst discussing his experience with the illness that impacts roughly 2.5 million people across the UK.
Adam admitted: “For most of my life, I’ve considered myself pretty fit and healthy, regularly playing sports and, of course, spending lots of time in the garden.”
He described how his symptoms began, explaining: “But around 20 years ago, I started to experience some unusual symptoms. I started to experience these very odd pains.
“They started in my neck, back, and shoulders, like this throbbing, and that then just moved through the rest of my body.
“On top of that, I wasn’t sleeping very well. I’d go to work and come home, exhausted. For almost two years, I was sent from pillar to post as doctors struggled to identify what was causing me to be so unwell,” reports the Express.
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Whilst he felt a sense of relief upon receiving his diagnosis, he revealed it required an additional 12 months of “going on this journey of understanding to eventually get some sort of treatment.”
Adam finished by explaining the characteristics of Fibromyalgia, stating: “Fibromyalgia is an incurable chronic pain condition affecting around 2.5 million people in the UK.
“It’s often characterised as widespread pain, fatigue, and brain fog, but symptoms are changeable and can sometimes be mistaken for other conditions, which makes it a challenge to diagnose.”
Adam Frost suffers from fibromyalgia (Image: ITV)
After a conversation with fellow sufferer Helen Keane about the benefits of exercise in managing Fibromyalgia, Adam had an opportunity to discuss patient pain management with Dr Katie Herring.
She informed Adam: “I wish I could say there was a cure for pain at the moment, but unfortunately, the best we have is supporting our patients to live well with their symptoms.”
Towards the end of the segment, Adam shared his thoughts: “Today has invoked an awful lot of emotion inside of me, and I know there’s a lot of classic symptoms with fibromyalgia, but you do get the sense that everybody’s experience is slightly different.”
He concluded optimistically, “But to think about the research that is being done, we could be getting closer to a cure for me. That is absolutely amazing.”
BBC Morning Live broadcasts weekdays at 9.30am on BBC One.
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