Strictly star ‘finding it hard to walk’ due to agonising chronic condition

Strictly Come Dancing prima Adam Thomas has been struggling to locomotion amid his arthritis battle, which has near him successful symptom ‘every day’ for the past 2 years.

The Emmerdale histrion revealed successful August 2023 that helium had been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, and successful a caller update the 36-year-old shared that he is coming disconnected his latest medication due to the fact that the broadside effects person go ‘too much’.

Adam, who was partnered with Luba Mushtuk connected Strictly past year, wrote connected Instagram: ‘My arthritis journey… So for those of you that know, I’ve been connected my methotrexate injections for rather immoderate clip and the broadside effects were conscionable excessively overmuch for me, I’ve had capable truthful I’ve decided to travel disconnected them…

‘I’ve been disconnected them present for 5 weeks oregon truthful and not been connected thing and the symptom has decidedly increased, uncovering it hard to locomotion again, particularly successful the greeting and my wrists and fingers are conscionable arsenic atrocious if not worse!

‘I’ve been taking a batch of symptom killers to get maine done and they person helped easiness the symptom wherever americium capable to bid but the adjacent time my assemblage is conscionable successful bits.’

Adam explained that he’s trying different benignant of medication, sulfasalazine tablets, successful a bid to easiness the pain, and helium is hoping to ‘stay positive’.

Alongside selfies of him successful hospital, helium continued: ‘So backmost to the infirmary contiguous to effort thing else… I cognize a batch of you person recommended the biologics but successful bid for maine to get connected to these, I person to person tried astatine slightest 2 antithetic medications first. So one person tried the methotrexate tablets and injections and present Im going connected to sulfasalazine tablets. It’s a agelong process but I conscionable person to enactment positive! (sic).’

The Waterloo Road histrion admitted the lone clip helium hasn’t been successful symptom implicit the past mates of years was erstwhile helium took steroid injections during his clip connected Strictly.

He said: ‘The happening is I’ve ne'er been symptom free!! Over 2 years I’ve been successful symptom EVERYDAY and arsenic you tin ideate it decidedly takes its toll.

‘The lone clip I tin deliberation of, that I’ve not been symptom free, is erstwhile I was doing Strictly… 4-5 weeks successful the symptom was unbearable to the constituent I couldn’t physically transportation connected anymore I was putting connected a brave face, but truly I was suffering!

‘Even though I was successful symptom and physically I was suffering, successful my caput I wanted to support going and the squad astatine strictly mentioned steroid injections to assistance easiness the symptom a small and it worked massively!!!

‘I was inactive s*** astatine dancing but the symptom had eased off. And truthful il beryllium honorable I conscionable request immoderate breathing abstraction again to consciousness mean again and truthful that’s what I’ve had again today!

‘So fingers crossed! I cognize it’s nary cure but it conscionable gives maine a small clip until the different meds footwear in!

‘I genuinely bash not speech to anyone astir immoderate of this, and the crushed I stock this is due to the fact that I cognize a batch of you are suffering, but I privation you to cognize that we person to enactment strong! nary 1 volition recognize what we are going done it’s pugnacious immoderate bully days immoderate bad, but we can’t fto it bushed us. I garbage to springiness in!!’

Adam was showered successful enactment successful the comments, with @parkerwords writing: ‘Love and spot geezer.’

‘I perceive u Adam! I committedness you it gets easier! It is hard astatine the beginning, but it gets easier,’ @05jake_l said.

During his stint connected Strictly past year, Adam shared an update connected his wellness condition, telling Metro.co.uk: ‘It’s been tough, but I’m connected the roadworthy to recovery.’

Adam went on: ‘A mates of weeks ago, I couldn’t truly walk, I couldn’t truly bash much.

‘So to get to this constituent that I’m astatine now, I’m conscionable truthful happy. I conscionable privation to get connected that creation floor, commencement moving, and I’m conscionable blessed to beryllium present and to beryllium capable to bash it.’

He added: ‘I don’t attraction however acold I get, I’m conscionable blessed to beryllium here.’

The NHS describes rheumatoid arthritis arsenic a ‘long-term information that causes pain, swelling and stiffness successful the joints’ with the main affected areas being the hands, feet and wrists.’

There is nary cure, but aboriginal diagnosis and attraction tin forestall ‘flare-ups’ from being a communal occurrence. However, depending connected the severity of the pain, stiffness, and swelling, sufferers mightiness find overcoming mundane tasks much of a challenge, and person to accommodate accordingly.

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