Posted on 12/08/2022 10:25:15 AM PST by servo1969
Pop icon Celine Dion revealed that she will be cancelling her upcoming shows after being diagnosed with an incurable neurological disorder that turns people into “human statues.”
The “My Heart Will Go On” legend broke the heartrending news in a teary-eyed Instagram video Thursday.
“As you know I’ve always been an open book and I wasn’t ready to say anything before but i’m ready now,” the 54-year-old Grammy-winner said in the devastating clip. “I’ve been dealing with problems with my health for a long time and it’s been really difficult for me to face my challenges and to talk about everything that I’ve been going through.”
Dion then revealed that she’d been diagnosed with a “a very rare neurological disorder called the stiff person syndrome which affects 1 in a million people.”
What is Stiff Person Syndrome?
According to RareDiseases.org, Stiff Person Syndrome is a “rare acquired neurological disorder characterized by progressive muscle stiffness (rigidity) and repeated episodes of painful muscle spasms.”
It explained that if left untreated, SPS symptoms can progress to the point that it significantly impairs the sufferer’s ability to walk and perform routine, daily tasks.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
SPS occurs in about one in a million people and is most commonly found in middle-aged people. A small minority of patients have the paraneoplastic variety of the condition. Variants of the condition, such as stiff-limb syndrome which primarily affects a specific limb, are often seen.
SPS was first described in 1956. Diagnostic criteria were proposed in the 1960s and refined two decades later. In the 1990s and 2000s the roles of antibodies in the condition became more clear. SPS patients generally have GAD antibodies, which seldom occur in the general population. In addition to blood tests for GAD, electromyography tests can help confirm the condition's presence.
Benzodiazepine-class drugs are the most common treatment; they are used for symptom relief from stiffness. Other common treatments include baclofen, intravenous immunoglobin and rituximab. There is a limited but encouraging therapeutic experience of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for SPS."
How many of these do we need today? LOL.
May I ask the one true question?
I searched for her name before posting and didn’t get a single hit about this. Everything was an older article.
How many boosters has she had?
She has looked bad for many years. I thought it was anorexia.
Not if it’s about whether she took a certain “vaccine” which shall not be named.
I think it’s called SFS AKA FFS (frigid female syndrome).
If there’s a pandemic today, it’s FFS.
I probably have a minor or isolated case of this. I first learned of it from my physical therapist. He remarked that my hip and thigh musculature was akin fighter pilots he had treated whereas the muscles were tight and rigid. I mentioned it to my doctor and he did some testing and confirmed that I had what he called “I.T. band sydrome” and recommended a lot of stretching and massage. I now wish he would have done further testing for this condition.
I also worked for a guy that was a trained microbiologist and I mentioned my condition to him. He asked if I had ever taken statins. I told him I did for about 15 years but went off of them about 5 years ago. He said that statins are VERY bad for your muscles and a majority of people that have problems with statins get muscle degradation and weakness BUT a very small percentage of people get muscle stiffness from statins.
Interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing this
What does Mr. Pence think about deaths and injuries attributed to the COVID shots?
A result of “beta male syndrome”
She took the jab.
He said that statins are VERY bad for your muscles- - -
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Here’s another anecdotal story. At one point my doctor prescribed a statin for my high blood pressure. It didn’t take more than a week of being on the medicine and I felt like a 95-year-old with arthritis in the morning. Talk about being stiff all over, it was incredible.
That’s the first time I’ve every associated the word “stiff” and “Celine Dion”.
On the other hand, if they could control this and localize it, it might be rather useful.
There were two this morning. I don’t blame you though, the search doesn’t always seem to work right for checking.
Get your FR dues paid so we can hopefully upgrade the current 1996 search capabilities to 1998 search capabilities on FreeRepublic! The search function is borderline useless here.
And middle age fat and flabby, flannel shirts and beer bellies are exactly a turn on either. Seems to be an epidemic of that these days.
I have a fatal form of geriatric apathy.
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