Louise Thompson has revealed she’s been diagnosed with lupus.
The 32-year-old held back tears on Tuesday as she took to her Instagram story to update her 1.4 million followers.
The mum-of-one said: “So to update you guys quickly, I had a call yesterday with one of the rheumatology guys and they got more of my blood test results back and the diagnosis is that I’ve got drug induced lupus.”
“So I’m suffering from that which is fabulous,” Louise continued. “It means that I’m really tired but I’ve also started to get really intolerable joint pain especially if I sit down for any amount of time if I cross my legs.”
“I mean I was just on the bus going to one appointment this morning and when I stood up and started walking to the appointment and honestly me knees were in such agony.”
“I’ve never experienced anything like it in my life. I’ve always been so able bodied and so active, exercise has been such a big part of my life and it’s just so rough having to adapt to all of these new medical conditions so that’s been really tough.”
“On top of that and almost worse because I can deal with fatigue, I can deal with skin, I can deal with pain but the neurological symptoms have just still been so unbearable and currently I’m dealing with this never ending cold. “
Louise continued: “I have mucus coming out of my nose and really bad pain in my ears and I’m not suppose to take anti-inflammatory medication, so ibuprofen because of having ulcerative colitis or all of that.”
The 32-year-old previously predicted she would be diagnosed with the auto-immune disease after a doctor “took one look at her and said it’s lupus big time”.
The mum-of-one recently took some blood tests which confirmed her diagnosis.
