BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Montell Douglas rushed to hospital in devastating health battle

Gladiator and Strictly Come Dancing prima Montell Douglas has urged others to question assistance if they endure from the aforesaid debilitating wellness information that she does and which landed her successful hospital

Olympian way prima Montell Douglas, who is appearing successful Strictly, says she started convulsing from symptom and had to telephone an ambulance successful what was a "wake up call" for her.

It’s just to accidental Montell Douglas is successful beauteous bully shape. The Team GB Olympian and erstwhile British grounds holder for the 100 metres besides plays Fire connected Gladiators and is present competing successful the BBC ’s Strictly Come Dancing wherever she's hoping her carnal prowess volition service her well. "Hopefully, a fewer of my Gladiator moves volition travel successful useful with the Tango oregon Paso Doble!" she said up of the commencement of the iconic endowment show. Despite being successful highest fitness, the 38 twelvemonth aged suffers with a debilitating wellness information that she was rushed to infirmary with.

Montell battles with excruciating play pains that halt her successful her tracks and interfere with her regular life. She was prescribed beardown painkillers to assistance negociate the symptoms but they request to beryllium taken successful beforehand to enactment properly. A fewer years backmost she suffered the consequences of not doing truthful and ended up successful hospital.

In an interview connected Good Morning Britain earlier this twelvemonth Montell recalled: "That hospitalisation for maine was a benignant of wake-up call. My assemblage conscionable started convulsing, and I was astir passing out, due to the fact that the symptom was truthful intense. I was overheating due to the fact that of the hormones - my assemblage couldn’t power its temperature, and that successful crook made maine dehydrated. The symptom was successful waves, coming successful similar contractions." She called an ambulance herself, was admitted to infirmary and enactment connected a drip. The Gladiators prima teamed up with Bupa and decided to speech astir the condition, called dysmenorrhoea, to promote different women to question assistance with their painful, dense oregon irregular periods.

"I'm going to beryllium truly honorable astir it arsenic I deliberation it's thing we truly request to speech astir much the agonising pain... not galore radical and not each women volition acquisition the aforesaid thing," she said frankly. "It's truthful disruptive and it's precise emotionally draining, not to notation physically draining."

She shared however it affected her personally erstwhile trying to bid and compete: "It tin beryllium truly defeating, determination person been times successful my sporting vocation and besides being doubled implicit with pain, lying doubled implicit successful symptom successful bed, oregon if I've made it to the way to bid I'm conscionable lying connected the floor. The waves are truthful intense, not lone are you focusing connected what you're trying to do, which is ever precocious level, it's precise distracting. Often, I can't really bash the task I'm meant to bash truthful I can't bash a duel, I can't run, the symptom of doing my athletics is atrocious capable without having to deliberation astir that and situation that."

After she was hospitalised, Montell had contraceptive implants enactment in, and says they’ve made a large quality to the severity of her play pain. "Since then, it’s been overmuch much manageable successful presumption of the pain," she said. "And it conscionable gave maine immoderate assurance successful that erstwhile it comes, I’m not going to beryllium astatine its beck and call. It’s thing I tin manage, alternatively than it managing me." Montell is appearing successful Strictly alongside the likes of TOWIE’s Pete Wicks, chap Olympian Sam Quek and Miranda prima Sarah Hadland. If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize needs assistance oregon proposal with play symptom the NHS website has offers guidance.

Strictly airs connected Saturday evenings connected BBC1.