Avril Lavigne is opening up about battling Lyme disease, something she discovered she had last October while celebrating her 30th birthday.
“I could barely eat, and when we went to the pool, I had to leave and go lie in bed,” she told People. “My friends asked, ‘What’s wrong?’ I didn’t know.”
After months of not knowing what was ailing her, she was diagnosed with Lyme disease.
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“I had no idea a bug bite could do this,” the singer, who thinks she was bitten by a bug in the spring of 2014 said. “I was bedridden for five months.”
The 30-year-old singer feared the worst.
“I felt like I couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t talk and I couldn’t move,” she continued. “I thought I was dying.”
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Adding, “There were definitely times I couldn’t shower for a full week because I could barely stand. It felt like having all your life sucked out of you.”
With the help of her family and husband Chad Kroeger, Avril explained that she’s “80 percent better.”
“This was a wake-up call,” she told the mag. “I really just want to enjoy life from here on out.”
— Jesse Spero
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