Sharon Stone Reveals She’s Discovered a Fibroid and Needs Surgery: ‘A Second Opinion Can Save Your Life’
It’s not the first time Sharon stone In terms of health, he is facing a difficult time. In 2001, the actress suffered a stroke that kept her off the sets for several years. Then came the benign tumors that had to be removed from her breasts, and more recently she opened up about the nine miscarriages she suffered in her struggle to become a mother. In the last few hours, the protagonist of Low Instincts has once again worried her followers with news: the doctors diagnosed her with a large fibroid, which will once again remove her from the media spotlight for a long time.
The news was even more surprising when Stone explained that she had been suffering from strange pains for a long time and that until now she had been misdiagnosed, which put her life in danger. “Don’t be impressed. Get a second opinion because it can save your life,” the interpreter wrote on her Instagram account, realizing that she had just received an accurate diagnosis after a wrong procedure.
Apparently, Stone had been suffering from abdominal pain and discomfort, so he received a double epidural to treat the condition. However, since the pain didn’t stop, the actress decided to consult another professional again and get a second opinion. An opinion that paralyzed her when the doctor told her she had “a large fibroid” that needed immediate surgery.
After sharing the harsh news, Stone reflected on his experience and encouraged all his followers to never settle for a first medical opinion. And he immediately revealed he will be taking some time to look into the matter: “I will be away to look after you for 4-6 weeks for a full recovery. Everything is fine, ”he wrote, bringing calm to his fans and relatives.
And while it’s another life’s bitter pill, the prognosis is extremely encouraging as these types of tumors turn out to be benign. Also known as fibroids, these noncancerous masses can be of different types and it is common for women to have them of different sizes in their uterus. In many cases, they are painless and therefore go unnoticed.
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A life full of ups and downs
It’s not the first time the Golden Globe winner has had surgery. In 2001, doctors had to remove several benign tumors from her body that were “huge, bigger than my chest alone,” she confessed in her memoir The Beauty of Living Twice last year. The Hollywood star, in turn, confessed that she underwent breast reconstruction surgery after the procedure, an experience she doesn’t remember well either, as she herself denounced that the plastic surgeon placed larger breast implants on her without her consent.
However, her greatest moment of risk came when she suffered a stroke at the age of 43 that nearly brought her to the brink of death. “The room was so quiet. When the room is so quiet and nobody is running around trying to fix you, that’s when you realize how close death is and how serious everything is,” he confessed in an interview with Today.
“I left the hospital with severe amnesia, both short-term and long-term,” he said of the remaining episodes. And although she recovered, the actress revealed that this condition affected not only her married life but also her career, which has progressed from films like Low Instinct and Casino at the height of success to more sporadic roles and almost seven years without much notoriety. .
“When your life catches fire, it takes time to rise like a phoenix. You have to stay in place long enough and love yourself and forgive yourself,” she said, who eventually split from her husband Phil Bronstein and is fighting in court for custody of their eldest adopted son, Roan.
“People treated me in a brutally cruel way. From other women in my own business to the judge who handled my custody case, I don’t think anyone understands how dangerous a stroke is for women and what it takes to recover from it,” she said in a 2019 Interviewed by Variety.
Another difficult moment in her life was her long struggle to be a mother. In this search, Stone lost nine pregnancies; Confession he made in a People magazine Instagram post. In the publication, the Fast and Deadly star said she had nine miscarriages before adopting her three children and criticized society’s taboos in such situations. “We women have no place to debate the magnitude of this kind of loss,” she said, generating a calamity of likes and empathetic comments.
“It’s no small thing, physically or emotionally, but they make us feel like we have to endure it alone and secretly with a kind of sense of failure. Instead of receiving the compassion, empathy and healing we so desperately need. Caring for women’s health and wellbeing has become lax at best from male ideology, factually ignorant and violently repressive,” he added, recounting how he lived through those losses.