Christina Applegate thought she was living with multiple sclerosis (MS) for five years, until recently discovering she had been given a wrong diagnosis.<\/p>\n
The actress, known for hits like Anchorman and Married With Children, said she was “not happy at all” about the news and in tears when she found out.<\/p>\n
“You don’t get misdiagnosed and then all of the sudden I’m better,” Applegate said in an episode of her Messy podcast released on Tuesday. “If anything, I’ve gotten worse.”<\/p>\n
The two-part episode, co-hosted by Jamie Sigler, ends a recent break she took to process the information. An investigation into what is causing her debilitating symptoms – which she experiences daily – will begin next week.<\/p>\n
“I’m back at square one where I don’t know what’s going on with me,” she said.<\/p>\n
In the podcast, Applegate said that “all of a sudden, a few years ago”, her doctor suggested ending her infusion treatment for MS to see how her body reacted. <\/p>\n
During the time off, her body did not respond in a way that would indicate she had MS. <\/p>\n
Doctors then looked into her case further and concluded she in fact did not have the autoimmune disease, which can cause muscle stiffness and problems with walking and talking. <\/p>\n
“She came into my room and said, ‘Congratulations, you don’t have MS,’ ” Applegate said, recalling the moment. <\/p>\n
“I was, like, not happy at all,” she continued. “Everybody else was so happy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christina Applegate thought she was living with multiple sclerosis (MS) for five years, until recently discovering she had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-808818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}