Christina Applegate Suspects Breast Implants May Be Behind Her Multiple Sclerosis Misdiagnosis

Christina Applegate multiple sclerosis misdiagnosis breast implant poisoning theory, Digi Mart USA News: Christina Applegate has a theory about why she was misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis: she believes she may have been poisoned. The Married With Children and Dead to Me star has received many suggestions since her misdiagnosis was revealed, but one stood out, she said on the Tuesday episode of her Messy podcast with co-host Jamie Lynn Sigler.

“I’ve been thinking this for years: breast implant poisoning,” Applegate said. She had a double mastectomy in 2008 and said she is well overdue to have her implants replaced.

She said she had begun to wonder whether they were leaking and poisoning her, and that someone had sent her a study about breast implant leakage and poisoning presenting as MS.

Applegate described her symptoms, including extreme sleepiness. “I sleep, Jamie.

I can’t stop sleeping. I slept, I think, almost the entire day yesterday,” she said.

She also described pain, saying she cannot move her right shoulder or lift her arm and that it takes her at least 10 minutes to sit up and get out of bed because she hurts all over. She said she did not know whether she was causing that by sleeping too much.

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society describes MS as a disease of the central nervous system, including the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves, that disrupts the flow of information within the brain and between the brain and the rest of the body. Symptoms may include fatigue, memory and mobility issues, mood swings, numbness, pain, tingling and vision impairment.

In the same episode, Applegate recounted a Halloween story in which she said she flew down the stairs of her home without her caregiver’s help after she thought she heard her 15-year-old daughter Sadie screaming outside. She said she was in the driver’s seat before her caregiver could get out of what she was doing.

When they drove toward the screaming, they found a fighting couple who did not appear to need help. Applegate said a friend offered assistance and the woman responded with profanity and told them to leave, after which they left the couple to handle it themselves.