Lady Gaga reveals health breakthrough, performs pain-free after long battle with fibromyalgia
Lady Gaga has candidly opened up about her battle with a devastating health condition, which forced her to delay her European tour back in 2018.
Fans of the poignant Netflix documentary Gaga: Five Foot Two are clued-up that it's not been plain sailing for the Born This Way singer over the past decade. Back in 2013, the songstress was dealt a blow when she was diagnosed with fibromyalgia - an incurable condition that kicked off after she busted her hip during a show.
While the severity of its symptoms can fluctuate over time, the global pop icon once spilled to Oprah that fibromyalgia leaves her "head to toe in pain." When the torment spiked, she had no choice but to postpone shows in 2018 and even led her to doubt if she could ever have children.
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However, there appears to be light at the end of the tunnel for Gaga, real name Stefani Germanotta, as she gears up for the release of Joker: Folie a Deux. She got real with Vogue about how her recent Chromatica Ball tour, which featured banger Rain on Me, marked a triumphant moment.
"When I went on the Chromatica Ball tour in 2022 ... that was the first time I’ve performed not in pain in," she told the publication, before continuing: "I did it pain-free!"
At 38 years old, Gaga's silver lining follows an array of hefty therapies to manage her fibromyalgia symptoms. The eye-opening 2017 documentary even captures her bearing through treatment jabs in a hospital whilst getting dolled up for an interview.
She has previously discussed using cannabis for pain relief, though in a recent interview, she underscored that this was in the past and remarked: "I've, like, changed."
Researchers at the University of Aberdeen estimate about 2.5 million individuals in the UK suffer from fibromyalgia. The condition, as evidenced by Gaga's situation, may develop following physical trauma, but it does not always start this way.
The London-based Mayo Clinic even suggests it can be brought about after a period of significant psychological stress or may be linked to no real event at all. Anxiety, depression, migraines and irritable bowel syndrome are among a number of other symptoms associated with the condition too.
Although there is no cure, talking therapies, antidepressants and lifestyle-changing programmes are among the treatments recommended to cope with its symptoms. For more information, read more at the NHS website.
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