The One Show's Lucy Siegle gives BBC fans crucial update on condition

The One Show fans have been given a health update after journalist Lucy Siegle was taken to hospital with 'excruciating' pain.' Viewers were updated after the 49-year-old shared recently that she had kidney stones.

Lucy, who has also appeared on shows like Good Morning Britain and Dispatches first shared news about her health in a post on Twitter/ X last month. Lucy. She told her followers that she had been in "excruciating pain" with it and would be undergoing lithotripsy as treatment.

And now the reporter, who has worked on the One Show for over a decade, has given a new update on her condition. The Mirror reports, she was met with supportive messages on the platform at the time and then just days ago another fan expressed well wishes.

They said: "Hope you aren't suffering too much with your kidney stones. I went through it 4 years ago, rushed into hospital and stent fitted. Then several treatments of lythotripsy later stones battered. Hope it goes well."

Lucy responded to the comment on Friday last week. She wrote in her reply to the follower: "Thank you. Very kind. Stone sill in situ. Just had second round of litho. Pain is fine now but obvs that can change quickly. Strange scenario!"

Lucy announced that she had developed a "large" kidney stone in a tweet that she shared just a few weeks ago. She wrote in the post at the time: "Spent [Monday] night with excruciating pain in A&E - large kidney stone causing havoc."

She further told her followers in the tweet last month: "I'm a prodigious stone former apparently (at last found something to excel at) Having #lithotripsy tomorrow. Anyone had it? After effects? Did it WORK?!" Lucy later teased in a follow-up post: "I really don't want another A&E episode."

According to the NHS, kidney stones can develop in one or both kidneys. It adds that the condition most often affects people aged between 30 and 60. They are described as "quite common," with them said to affect more than 1 in 10 people. It's stated that kidney stones can be "extremely painful," with listed symptoms including abdominal pain, feeling nauseous and a high temperature.

Discussing treatment, the NHS adds: "Most [stones] are small enough to be passed in your pee, and it may be possible to treat the symptoms at home with medication. Larger stones may need to be broken up or removed with surgery." It states that surgery options include shockwave lithotripsy (SWL), which uses ultrasound shock waves to break up kidney stones, and ureteroscopy, which can involve the removal of a stone by a surgeon.