BBC Gardeners’ World presenter Adam Frost has been living with a chronic illness for the past two decades.
BBC Gardeners’ World’s Adam Frost has bravely opened up about his two-decade health battle with Fibromyalgia, a debilitating condition which triggers widespread agony throughout the body. During a Morning Live appearance which aired last year, the gardening expert was visibly emotional as he discussed his struggle with the illness which affects roughly 2.5 million Brits.
Adam revealed: “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 explained how his symptoms began, saying: “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”.
Though he felt some relief after receiving his diagnosis, Adam explained it required an additional 12 months of “going on this journey of understanding to eventually get some sort of treatment.”
Adam opened up about his debilitating illness(Image: BBC)
Underlining the harsh reality of Fibromyalgia, Adam said: “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.”
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After meeting with fellow sufferer Helen Keane and chattin about the benefits of exercise for controlling Fibromyalgia, Adam had the opportunity to speak with Dr Katie Herring about patient pain management, the Mirror reports.
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 reflected: “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 added: “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 airs weekdays at 9.30am on BBC One.
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