TV legend ‘getting his life back’ after two-year disease battle

Waterloo Road fable Adam Thomas has spoken astir his ‘hope’ for the aboriginal aft a manner alteration has helped him conflict an autoimmune disease.

The 36-year-old soap prima revealed helium had been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis portion helium was taking portion successful Strictly Come Dancing successful 2023.

He has since been sharing updates with fans connected societal media aft suffering months of pain, and adjacent being left incapable to walk astatine points.

Adam has present revealed he’s pursuing a caller fare which appears to person helped him.

Appearing connected Tuesday’s Good Morning Britain, helium explained: ‘I’ve been struggling with this autoimmune illness present for astir 2 and a fractional years.

‘It’s been tough. I’m not over-exaggerating erstwhile I accidental this, for 2 and a fractional years, mundane I’ve been successful pain.

‘It’s difficult, but now, I’ve been connected truthful galore antithetic meds and trying truthful galore antithetic things, backmost and distant from hospitals, I’ve present recovered a spot of anticipation wrong the carnivore fare which I’m doing astatine the minute.

‘And I’ve noticed a immense difference, particularly wrong the past mates of weeks.

‘It’s fixed maine a spot of anticipation now, I consciousness similar the inflammation has gone down a spot and I’m getting my beingness back, which is the astir important thing.’

Adam went connected to speech astir however helium feels his begetter whitethorn person besides suffered from the aforesaid disease, due to the fact that helium was ‘constantly’ successful pain.

‘We’re getting better, I tin spot airy astatine the extremity of the passageway now, and I consciousness the champion mode I’ve felt for a while,’ helium added.

Talking astir his caller diet, Adam explained he’s eating conscionable nutrient and eggs.

‘That’s each I’ve been having for the past six oregon 7 weeks now,’ helium said.

‘No vegetables, nary sugar, nary carbs, nary nothing,’ helium added.

‘It’s moving for me, I wouldn’t counsel different radical to bash it, everyone is connected their ain journey, I’m decidedly connected excavation and that’s what I’m doing astatine the minute.

‘It’s the archetypal happening that has fixed maine a small spot of anticipation successful 2 and a fractional years.’

His update comes weeks aft Adam shared his fearfulness of perchance being connected medicine for the remainder of his life.

‘You person bully days and atrocious days’, helium explained during an quality connected This Morning past month, saying helium had besides been impacted with psoriasis, a tegument information affecting his assemblage and scalp.

As helium went connected to sermon uncovering the close medicine for him, Adam besides noted: ‘Everyone’s antithetic and everyone’s bodies are different. What mightiness enactment for immoderate people, mightiness not enactment for you.

‘The medicine was pugnacious and besides the broadside effects. I was connected immoderate medicine which was similar a abbreviated dose of chemotherapy and, arsenic you tin imagine, the broadside effects to that were truly challenging.’

The erstwhile Emmerdale prima shared the caller medicine helium had been prescribed, saying: ‘Whilst I was connected it, it conscionable got maine thinking, americium I truly going to beryllium connected medicine for the remainder of my life?!! There has to beryllium a amended way…

‘Can I bushed this without medication?…. truthful that’s what I’m going to do!! Well astatine slightest effort too! I’ve decided to enactment my meds connected clasp for a while, arsenic I research trying to combat my autoimmune illness the earthy way!’

At the time, the Donte Charles histrion said helium was unsure if it would enactment but wanted to ‘give it a go’.

If each other fails past I volition crook backmost to my meds, but for present this Is the way I’m going to take,’ helium added, informing his followers that this was his ain travel and helium wouldn’t counsel them to bash the same.

In October, the dad-of-two had said helium was checking into infirmary arsenic his symptom had got ‘a batch worse’ and he couldn’t ‘carry connected similar this’, revealing helium could ‘barely walk’, his fingers and wrists felt ‘broken’ and helium couldn’t adjacent formal himself.

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.

Good Morning Britain airs from 6am connected ITV1.

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