That same year, she published a memoir, titled, "Believe Me: My Battle With the Invisible Disability of Lyme Disease." Yolanda Hadid, reality-TV star and mother to models Bella and Gigi Hadid, often refers to her Lyme disease as an "invisible disability." In 2018, after a year in remission, she discovered that her Lyme disease was active again after six years of consistent treatment. I was really, really, really excited." Now she's back with a new album. "It was a connection to the vocal cords and it came out very easily. And I was so excited about what came out," she said. "It did scare me, but I just had to take the leap and make a sound. But ultimately, she decided to give it a go. I didn't know what was going to come out," she told the outlet. "After I had the surgery, I was petrified to make a sound. Twain shared in a recent interview with InStyle that it took the help of her friends Gladys Knight and Lionel Richie to get up the courage to try to sing again after the operation. "I was having these very, very, very millisecond blackouts, but regularly, every minute or every 30 seconds," and then she thought, "I'd lost my voice forever."īut her two surgeries finally provided a solution. I was losing my balance, I was afraid I was gonna fall off the stage," she shared. "My symptoms were quite scary because before I was diagnosed, I was on stage very dizzy. In the Netflix documentary " Shania Twain: Not Just a Girl," which was released in July 2022, Twain opened up about the initial stages of the disease during the peak of her career. It took close to seven years to get a diagnosis for why she'd lost her voice and then two open-throat surgeries to finally sing again. Check out these celebs who have all opened up about their experiences with Lyme disease.Īfter being bitten by a tick while horseback riding in 2003, Shania Twain contracted Lyme disease, which caused severe nerve damage to her vocal cords. So it's especially nice to see when celebrities like Mark Ruffalo, Bella Hadid, Shania Twain, and many others who have been treated for Lyme disease use their platforms to draw attention to the condition. "Untreated Lyme, or cases that don't respond to treatment, can cause long-term problems, including Lyme-related arthritis, when the bacteria enter joint tissue and cause inflammation, and post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome, which can cause fatigue, pain, and cognitive impairment long after treatment," Brian Fallon, MD, director of the Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center at Columbia University, told POPSUGAR last year.Įducating others about the risks of Lyme disease could save them years of painful symptoms and long-term effects. Yet, disease-carrying ticks are present throughout the world - and when Lyme disease is left untreated, it can cause health issues that linger for years. Unfortunately, vague symptoms like severe fatigue, brain fog, memory loss, joint pain, and muscle weakness make it difficult to diagnose. Lyme disease, despite impacting roughly 476,000 people every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is still so misunderstood.
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