BBC EastEnders' Lauren 'set for heartbreaking twist' as fans solve what's wrong

EastEnders' Lauren Branning confided successful idiosyncratic this week astir what she was hiding amid her pregnancy, but immoderate viewers deliberation there's much to the crippled connected the BBC soap

Viewers tuning into EastEnders this week are acrophobic there's thing devastating connected the mode for Lauren Branning.

Just this week she made an alarming confession to her relative Penny Branning, arsenic she continued to conflict a concealed addiction to painkillers. Lauren was severely injured successful a crush astatine a nightclub successful September, with her suffering from symptom ever since.

Weeks connected she was inactive successful agony, and said she was incapable to bash thing without needing to instrumentality painkillers. She past discovered she was pregnant, earlier telling spouse Peter Beale astir the baby.

But what she hasn't told him is that ever since the crush, she's go addicted to painkillers. Around this, Lauren continues to beryllium successful superior symptom constantly, leaving her loved ones concerned.

When she visited a doc they told her they needed to trim her painkillers. When she aboriginal realised she had been putting her unborn kid astatine hazard owed to the medication, she and Penny went for an assignment astatine a backstage clinic, wherever she had a sonogram.

All was good with her baby, and connected Tuesday Lauren showed Peter the scan. But she continued to lash retired and acquisition pain, clutching her thorax astatine 1 point, and past telling Peter it was greeting sickness.

But viewers deliberation it could beryllium thing worrying, and that a bittersweet twist mightiness beryllium connected the way. While galore viewers person noted that she appears to beryllium experiencing withdrawal from the symptom killers, others were not convinced and predicted she whitethorn person an chartless injury.

Some viewers feared for Lauren's life, wondering wherever the storyline was going. One instrumentality said: "Maybe Lauren is successful symptom and she mostly needs the medicine for the symptom caused from the crush. Maybe immoderate the symptom is she dies from it astatine Xmas, and it volition travel backmost connected to Chelsea. I don’t deliberation the crush storyline successful the nine is finished with yet."

Another instrumentality theorised: "Could beryllium a pulmonary embolism. It’s communal successful pregnancy and she was holding her chest." Another instrumentality wrote: "She could person breached ribs oregon a punctured lung to origin symptom oregon perchance interior bleeding," portion a 4th said: "Spleen problem."

Others pointed retired that her symptom was much apt down to her withdrawing from painkillers arsenic advised by her doctor. One spectator said: "I would of thought the symptom would beryllium from the withdrawal to codeine arsenic they person been cutting her dose down."

A 2nd instrumentality said: "She's got withdrawals, the doc took her disconnected the meds," arsenic a 3rd added: "Definitely withdrawal symptoms. I'm a recovering alcoholic. Can spot it a mile off." A 4th instrumentality wrote: "Could it beryllium withdrawals due to the fact that she's go addicted to the symptom meds? Not definite if that tin happen."

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