Gemma Collins: 'I thought I was having a heart attack but it's long Covid'
14.03.2023 - 12:07
/ ok.co.uk
Gemma Collins has looked to sub-zero cryotherapy in a bid to “shock her system” back to health after long Covid symptoms made her convinced she was dying of a heart attack.The 42-year-old reality star contracted the virus last year and she has been suffering from the side effects ever since. Only last month, Gemma revealed she had to ring for an ambulance and thought she was going to die. “The palpitations got so bad I thought I was having a heart attack,” she says.
“I called an ambulance and the paramedics did an ECG [electrocardiogram] and said, ‘We need to take you to hospital.’ “I said to myself, ‘Great, this is it. My time is up.’ But, thank God, it was a condition called costochondritis, which can cause severe chest pain and happens because of coughing or an infection. I think I got it from being constantly run down and ill.
I do think I’ve got long Covid because I haven’t been able to shift it and it’s been in my system for months. I’ve been so unwell and it doesn’t matter what I take or do, it’s not going.” In a bid to beat it, Gemma has been having ice cryo spa sessions, which she recently posted about on Instagram. “I’ve been going for loads of sessions at Ice Health Cryotherapy in Kensington and I use this thermal shock machine, which you get into standing up and your head pops out of the top.
It goes from a temperature of +70C to -196C in seconds. Cryotherapy helps with any illness and it really boosts your immune system,” she tells us, adding, “I’d love my own machine at home but they’re about £250,000 to buy.” Common symptoms of long Covid include breathlessness, fatigue, heart palpitations, difficulty sleeping, anxiety and depression, which can last months after contracting the virus. “It took me seven
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