Kelly Osbourne admits she was ‘scared s***less’ when she was diagnosed with Lyme disease and medication left her feeling ‘like a zombie’
KELLY Osbourne has revealed the extent of her battle to overcome stage III neurological Lyme disease in her soon to be released memoir There Is No F**king Secret: Letters From a Badass B***h.
The TV personality contracted the condition after being bitten by a tick at the reindeer sanctuary in her parents' back garden back in 2004.
For years she suffered a range of illnesses because of the condition, ranging from a sore throat to stomach pain, and was accordingly prescribed a cocktail of drugs that only seemed to make her feel worse.
Fed up of being unable to move off the couch and feeling like a "vegetable", Kelly turned to alternative medicine practitioner Philip Battiade, who had treated her brother Jack for his MS, and finally got a conclusive diagnosis.
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She jetted out to his clinic in Germany and underwent stem cell treatment to beat the condition.
In an extract from her book obtained by , Kelly explained: "I had started entering my symptoms into online quizzes, and the results kept coming back Lyme disease. For the first time, someone listened to me, and I got tested. The results were positive: I had stage III neurological Lyme disease. I was relieved to finally know what was going on, but I was also scared s--tless."
Before her treatment in Germany, doctors would continually alter her prescription in a bid to help her range of ailments, however it only made her worse.
"The doctors kept changing my prescription, trying to get the dosage right, and it turned me into a zombie," said Kelly. "You know in movies where a mental patient sits in a rocking chair in a cardigan and nightgown and stares at a wall all day? That was me."
A number of famous faces have allegedly been diagnosed with the condition in recent years from Avril Lavigne and Ben Stiller to Bella Hadid and Yolanda Foster.
And because of the number of celebrity cases, Kelly said she didn't want to go public with her illness.
She hit out: "... it seems like the trendy disease to have right now, and I’m tired of seeing sad celebrities play the victim on the cover of weekly mags."
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