Louise Thompson has revealed she’s been having “really intense” PTSD episodes.
The former Made In Chelsea star spent a month in intensive care last year after the traumatic birth of her son Leo.
The 32-year-old took to her Instagram story on Wednesday to share the news with her 1.4 million followers, saying: “I’ve been having a few really intense like PTSD episodes over the last three days and I think it must be connected to my ear.”
Louise previously revealed that she’s been “totally deaf” in her right ear after contracting a virus.
“A large part of my suffering is to do with physically not being well but also sensory stimulation or dysfunction,” the mum-of-one continued.
“And my brain just basically goes into total overdrive and panic mode when something isn’t working properly. And everything in my body has basically broken down over the last year and now this is just the final straw.”
“I mean I’ve not been able to taste or smell anything for ages and that sent me into a real panic.”
Louise continued: “But then not being able to hear is actually even more frustrating because it’s all connected. It just feels like it’s so close to my brain and it’s driving me absolutely batty.”
“I said to someone yesterday, ‘If I went blind into one eye I would be straight into A&E and I don’t know why we treat our ears so differently, because they’re equally important.'”
Earlier this month, the 32-year-old revealed she had been diagnosed with auto-immune disease lupus.
“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,” she told her followers at the time.
“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 former Made In Chelsea star recently took some blood tests which confirmed her diagnosis.
