EXCLUSIVE: Gemma Collins has opened up about being 'unwell', with the former TOWIE star revealing she was thought she was dying of a heart attack after calling herself an ambulance
Gemma Collins has looked to sub-zero cryotherapy in a bid to “shock her system” back to health after long Covid symptoms made her convinced she was dying of a heart attack.
“I said to myself, ‘Great, this is it. My time is up.’ But, thank God, it was a condition called costochondritis, which can cause severe chest pain and happens because of coughing or an infection. I think I got it from being constantly run down and ill. I do think I’ve got long Covid because I haven’t been able to shift it and it’s been in my system for months. I’ve been so unwell and it doesn’t matter what I take or do, it’s not going.
Common symptoms of long Covid include breathlessness, fatigue, heart palpitations, difficulty sleeping, anxiety and depression, which can last months after contracting the virus. “It took me seven weeks to get over it,” Gemma says. Gemma was recently in south Wales for 48 hours to explore her Welsh roots as part of the TV show More Than Daffs And Taffs, but was forced to complete filming back at her converted barn in Epping Forest because of her ongoing chest infection.
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