Celebrity Health!
UFC fighter Brock Lesnar in painful battle against debilitating medical condition Diverticulitis?
[May 12]
Here is some unexpected celebrity health news. UFC fighter Brock Lesnar suffers from a debilitating digestive disease called diverticulitis — which doctors and patients suffering with both report causes extreme stomach pain. Who knew that beating the odds to rise to the top of UFC would be less painful than the battle raging on in his own body? The valiant Brock released a quintessential celebrity athlete statement press statement saying, “I’m not retiring … I believe there’s a solution to every problem, I just gotta find the right solution … I love this sport.”
According to TMZ and other celebrity gossip sites, Brock Lesnar insists his current bout with his debilitating medical symptoms aren’t as serious as last time, “but he couldn’t train for his fight against Junior dos Santos at UFC 131 on June 11. Lesnar was hospitalized back in 2009 due to his medical condition — and had to reschedule his fight against Shane Carwin. Lesnar whooped Carwin’s ass when they fought a few months later. Lesnar is currently being treated at the famous Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.”
But what is Diverticulitis, exactly? Painful — yeah, we understand that… but why?
The Mayo Clinic website (the medical network of fabulous physicians who are treating Brock Lesnar for the disease) reports common signs and symptoms of diverticulitis include:
- Pain that’s often sudden, severe, and located in the lower left side of the abdomen. Less commonly, abdominal pain may be mild at first, and become worse over several days, possibly fluctuating in intensity
- Change in bowel habits
- Abdominal tenderness
- Fever
- Nausea and vomiting
- Constipation
- Diarrhea
Kind of like an internal kick to the gut that just keeps on happening 24 hours a day when symptoms flare up? That’s about how patients suffering with the medical condition report feeling about it.
Whether Brock Lesnar becomes more famous in the eyes of the mainstream general public because he is ill or not remains to be seen — but as a champion and role model dealing with a difficult medical condition heroically, we applaud him for speaking to the press and stepping into the ring with other green celebrities advocating for human issues like plaguing disease.