Denise Welch has bravely opened up about her recent health scare that had left her “screaming like a wounded animal.”
The Loose Women star opened up on Monday’s panel about her health struggle that has caused her to miss work.
The panellist talked about her battle with vertigo and how it has affected her daily life.
Opening up about her health struggle, Denise said: “I’ve had vertigo for about 15 years. My sister has it. They say it’s not hereditary, but she has it too.”
“It feels like you are falling off the edge of something.”
“So my normal vertigo would be that if I’m walking around, normally 90 per cent of the time, I’ll be okay.”
Denise continued: “But when I lie down at night, I go 1, 2, 3, 4, spin and it’s like a rollercoaster.”
“It’s like when you used to get drunk, but without the fun getting there.
“That’s what it is. And then if I’d wake up in the night to go to the loo, I’d have to sit on the edge of the bed and hold the bed and it’s absolutely miserable.”
Explaining what happened on a trip across the pond with her husband Lincoln Townley, she said: “And last year in New York, I went to the airport early so that I could find some seats and lie down, it was so bad. It’s really, really debilitating.”
“Anyway, I went to an ENT guy who sent me – this is after years of trying to get it done properly – went to an audiologist, check my hearing and said that was fine.”
“And then it sounds pretty brutal, but we established it was mainly my right side.”
She added: “So Lincoln was with me. And he laid me down on the bed and he said, I’m going to put you backwards to the left, which he did, which was horrible, but not so bad.
“Then he sat me up and put me down to to to the right – they threw me backwards.
“First time, threw me backwards with my head to the left, then with my head to the right. Lincoln said I sounded like an a wounded animal.”
Denise also revealed she had to cancel work on Loose Women due to being so ill.
