‘Teen Mom 2 ‘Alum Jenelle Evans Reveals Fibromyalgia Diagnosis But Is Still Looking for More Answers

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Getting to the bottom of things. Jenelle Evans finally has a diagnosis after years of unexplained health problems — but she is still looking for more answers.“I now know why my body is acting the way it does and it explains a lot,” the Teen Mom 2 alum told E!

News on Friday, March 11. “I never knew what fibromyalgia was until my doctor diagnosed me.”Fibromyalgia is “a disorder characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain accompanied by fatigue, sleep, memory and mood issues,” according to the Mayo Clinic.

Stars like Lady Gaga, Kyle Richards and Morgan Freeman all suffer from the debilitating health issue as well.As for her symptoms, Evans detailed years of “extremely bad tension headaches and full body aches — like I had the flu, but was not sick.

My entire body gets in so much pain and sometimes I lay in bed and cry. [For] a long time, no one believed my symptoms until I got a second opinion from a new neurologist recently.”However, the mom of three — who also explained that she has suffered from back and neck problems, as well as sinus issues — noted in a TikTok on Sunday, March 13, that she “didn’t stop” at “the fibromyalgia diagnosis … because I felt like I couldn’t breathe.”The North Carolina native revealed that she also had a checkup with her lung doctor and explained that the FeNO test she took — which “can help determine how much inflammation (irritation or swelling) you have in your airways,” per the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute — was “abnormally low.” Therefore, she detailed, “I have been prescribed an inhaler [and] nitroglycerin for my esophagus spasms.”Evans listed several possible causes for the test results in the comments section of her TikTok upload: “COPD, anemic, cystic fibrosis, etc.