Strictly star 'wakes up every day filled with anxiety’ after shock health diagnosis
Strictly Come Dancing star Susannah Constantine opened up on her health diagnosis earlier this year, and admitted she wakes up every day with anxiety after doctors told her she was "lucky to be alive". Susannah was diagnosed with a neurological disorder, followed by hearing loss.
The former How to Look Good Naked host revealed to The Sun that she had been fitted with a hearing aid after her children kept making comments about her hearing. She said: "I’ve damaged my ears, I've got hearing aids. Can you see them? Can you f**! Aren’t they amazing? I started losing my hearing I realised in about 2019 and my children kept saying to me, 'oh mum you’re so deaf." She added: "Then it transpires I’ve damaged my ears through probably too much loud music". After spending years surrounded by noisy environments, Susannah admitted that something wasn't quite right when she could no longer hear birds singing.
She said: "The penny dropped when I realised I couldn’t differentiate between the different birds singing. I live in the countryside and it’s something I love to listen to, because I wake up in the morning, every morning, filled with anxiety, and I go outside and I listen to the bird song."
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This came one year after Susannah was warned by doctors that she was at risk of a stroke and underwent emergency surgery after suffering from pins and needles, tinnitus, and a swollen left eye.
Speaking about this scary ordeal, the star previously told OK!: "They said" 'It's Hobson's Choice, if you don't have the operation, you've got a one in three chance of having a brain haemorrhage, being paralysed or having a stroke. If you do have surgery, you've got a one in 10 chance of these same things happening during the operation.'"
Last year, Susannah had hinted at her health woes, when she shared a video of a cannula in her arm as she lay in a hospital bed. At the time she wrote: "Withered arm turned out to be a symptom of something a bit more serious. All sorted now thanks to our ailing but still magnificent NHS where we are lucky enough to have some of the most gifted doctors (and in this case neurosurgeons) in the world. @brainandspine. Forever grateful."
Susannah has since revealed that she has been given a "total clean bill of health".
