Not that anyone expects a doctor to know everything, because bodies are complicated, but you do need to not scare someone and make them believe that they are dying if you don’t know for sure. Bodies are weird, diagnoses are hard, and the medical system is chaos
Adam Devine has realized that diagnoses are complicated and, sometimes, a second opinion is required.
Devine has suffered chronic pain since he was eleven and was hit by a cement truck. His chronic pain led doctors to giving him a not so great, get your affairs in order kind of diagnosis. He has been having some issues, though – ones where if he sits or stands or walks too much, it becomes very painful for him, and he gets spasms.
We have no idea how and if he has a moment of no pain. When talking to the In Depth With Graham Bensinger podcast, Devine opened up about what doctors said to him about his prognosis.
Devine said, “They told me I was dying. Literally, within this last year, they told me that. They told me I had this disease called stiff-person syndrome. And that’s when your muscles get so tight that you then, you can no longer walk. You can no longer move, then your heart will stop beating because your heart is a muscle and it gets too tight to beat, and then you die.”
That’s a lot for anyone to take. Devine didn’t take it lying down though – as he got worse, he sought out more answers. A second opinion.
The specialist said, “And he’s like, ‘You don’t have it. You do not have it.’ He’s like, ‘This is from your accident, from when you were a child. The spasms are a little unexplainable, but it could just be you got so tight that your body doesn’t know what to do with it. So, you’re misfiring a little bit.”
“I think I just got so tight,” Devine explained. “My body has all these things that are a little wonky and a little wrong with it, that I just sort of snapped.”
We’re hoping that he’s feeling better and is getting all the help that he needs. We’ll be thinking of him and can’t wait to see what he does next.
