Jenelle Evans has broken down in tears as she documented her “excruciating” journey after undergoing knee surgery and warned fans she could be paralyzed.
The Teen Mom star opened up about the ordeal in a video posted on Instagram It emerged Monday that she can barely walk due to spinal cysts and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, a rare chronic pain condition that usually causes severe, burning pain in an arm or leg long after an initial injury or surgery.
‘Life update part 1 ❤️ Please have mercy on me and keep negative comments to yourself. It’s hard for me to even have the courage to post this. #syringomyelia #CRPS,” the reality star captioned the post.
In the video, the 34-year-old says that she underwent surgery in April this year after a knee injury.
However, the surgery caused pain that was significantly more intense.
“I noticed my leg wasn’t getting better and I was later diagnosed with CRPS,” she shared in the video posted online.
Jenelle Evans cried as she warned fans she could be paralyzed after being diagnosed with CRPS following knee surgery
Evans told followers that her symptoms got worse after she visited a pain management clinic and received a steroid injection.
Now she has terrible pain in her back.
‘My neck hurts. “I literally have pain from the base of my skull to my tailbone,” the mother of three said. “And it’s every day, every day, on top of my leg pain.
Evans added that she is dealing with the growth of a syrinx filled with cerebrospinal fluid, measuring 2 millimeters to 4 millimeters, on her spine.
She explained how she is currently coping with “so much pain.”
‘I have pain when I sit up or lie down. When I lie down I get an extreme headache in the back of my skull,” she said. ‘I still can’t walk on my leg and it keeps flaring up.’
Evans, who appeared on Teen Mom 2 after welcoming son Jace with ex-boyfriend Andrew Lewis in August 2009, has also opened up about the toll it has taken on her mental health.
The mother of three says she has been seeing a psychotherapist as it has affected her mental health
The TV personality is also mom to Kaiser Orion Griffith, 12, with ex-boyfriend Nathan Griffith; and daughter Ensley Jolie Eason, nine, with ex-husband David Eason.
Evans explained that she has also been seeing a psychotherapist because she has been “feeling so hopeless lately,” but assured fans that she “wouldn’t do anything” to harm herself.
“I’m literally watching everyone’s lives go by,” she shouted. “And I see everyone having a great summer, great vacations, Labor Day weekend, and I’m stuck in the house, and when I try to leave I’m in too much pain.”
The brunette revealed her plight as she filmed herself styling her hair.
She clarified that even though she spends most of her time indoors, she was determined to look good for an upcoming pain management appointment.
To make matters worse, her condition has made the skin so sensitive that it hurts when Evans takes a shower.
“When I take a shower, the drops from the shower hitting my legs cause them to become inflamed, and I literally cry, and it hurts my back,” she explained.
“This is probably the hardest thing I’ve ever experienced in my life.”
