Former Made In Chelsea star Louise Thompson has opened up about her health battles after giving birth to her first child last year and said she's worried she has brain damage.
The mum-of-one took to Instagram to share a lengthy post about her ongoing health issues after receiving worrying blood test results.
The 32-year-old suffers from 'catastrophic PTSD' after nearly dying twice while giving birth to her son Leo in November 2021.
She said that she can "hardly climb a set of stairs without feeling exhausted" and admitted: "My poor body and brain are all over the place."
Speaking honestly about how she's feeling, Louise updated her followers.
She said: "I kind of feel like I've erased my entire past and started life as a totally new person. A sometimes sick person. People tell me how far I've come, but I can't remember how far.
"I can remember a weird amount of things from my childhood… sensory things will remind me of the strangest memories from way back when I was 5-15, but then I've sort of erased everything between then and now.
"Now that I mention it, sometimes ALL I can feel is sensory stuff, like the feeling I get when I go from a hot room to a cold room and it helps me connect to the world around me."
She added: "To put it bluntly I'm struggling to move on with 'normal' life. Every day I feel physically very unwell and every other day I seem to have an hour long period (sometimes longer) where I feel messed up in my brain - I don't know what it is, but it feels like brain damage or a mini stroke.
"Maybe it's a weird processing experience. It feels like I'm either really REALLY low in some specific chemical/hormone or way too high. But either way I can't think properly or talk properly during those episodes.
"It sort of feels like I'm having a major allergic reaction to something in my brain. I go from feeling really low and agitated to then feeling a rush of something and then I get the worst cramping around my pelvis but then my brain levels out, a bit like the chemicals have been restored. I've been told that this isn't a result of my mental health medication?!? Can anyone help with the physical side of things?"
Last week, Louise's partner Ryan Libbey took to social media after Louise after received the "alarming blood test results" and said she was "holding on by a thread".
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