Kerry Katona has been diagnosed with thoracic outlet syndrome.
Kerry Katona
The 40-year-old star has been in “agony” with various pains and symptoms over the last few weeks and tests have found she has the condition - which occurs when nerves between the collarbone and first rib are compressed - and she’s now started treatment.
She revealed in new! magazine: "After being in agony with my body, I've finally been given a diagnosis of thoracic outlet syndrome, which is causing the coldness and numbness in my arm and the nerve pain.
"There are so many elements that are wrong with me - my hip, my rib, my shoulder and my lower back.
"I'm having rehab with The Pain Clinic in Oxford, which is going to help massively.
"I've also started taking CBD oil, which is meant to be really good.”
And the former Atomic Kitten singer will be hoping the treatment has an effect because she joked her boyfriend Ryan Mahoney has started to see her as “old” as a result of the condition.
She added: "I've got a boyfriend who is eight years younger than me and I'm walking around like an 80-year-old woman.
"He's probably thinking, 'What am I doing with this old bird?' But I'm sticking with the pain medication and doing lots of exercises for it, hoping for the best."
Kerry - who has Molly, 19, and Lilly-Sue, 17, with first husband Brian McFadden, Heidi, 13, and 12-year-old Max from her marriage to Mark Croft, and six-year-old DJ with the late George Kay - revealed earlier this month she was worried she was suffering from arthritis because of the pains she'd been experiencing.
She said: “I woke up the other day with the worst pain in my neck - it's something I've suffered with for a long time. I feel like I've got arthritis.
"I haven't had a chance to see anyone about it and now we're in lockdown it's gonna make it 10 times more difficult.
"The fact is, I've been working so hard, I've been living on adrenaline and now it's all come to a halt, my body's sort of gone into shutdown mode."
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