The first symptoms of the disease that Shania Twain thought could end her career
The singer addresses her battle with Lyme disease in a new documentary.
Campaign artistShania Twain has gone through a lot. To lose your parents at the beginning of the twenties to become one of the largest crossover stars at his divorce from the husband and the producerMutt Lange, everything is covered in the new Netflix documentary in TwainNot just a girl, which is streaming now. Another major subject that the film addresses is the artist's battle withLyme disease, which caused problems with his voice and led to throat surgery. This impacted her so seriously that the 56 -year -old star thought that she could no longer sing.
While Twain has already talked about Lyme disease, in the documentary, it opens more about her symptoms and how she managed the belief of her musical career for good. Read the rest to see what she has to say.
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Twain contracted the disease almost 20 years ago.
As indicated by CNN,Twain has contracted Lyme disease In 2003 while riding a horse in Norfolk, Virginia.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"I was simply balanced in the forest and I bit myself with a tick, a Lyme tick,"Twain said onCowardly women in 2020. "It took years to get to the bottom of what affected my voice, and I would probably say that seven good years before a doctor could discover that it was nervous lesions to my vocal cords directly caused by Lyme disease. "
Lyme disease can cause a wide variety of symptoms.
According to Mayo Clinic,Lyme disease is caused by types of bacteria transported by ticks. "Lyme disease is transmitted by the bite of an infected black leg tick, commonly known as deer tick," explains the institution. The first symptoms include a rash, as well as "fever, chills, fatigue, body pain, headache, stiffness of the neck and swollen lymph nodes", which can accompany the eruption.
If Lyme disease is not treated, symptoms, including joint pain and neurological problems, may appear weeks, months or even years later.
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She suffered from breakdowns on stage.
Before it was diagnosed, one of the symptoms that Twain noted first was that she felt short repetitive power outages while she was performing. At the time, the singer was on tour to support her 2002 albumAt the top!.
"My symptoms were quite frightening because before being diagnosed, I wason stage very dizzy", She said inNot just a girl(Going throughPeople). "I was losing my balance, I was afraid of going to fall from the scene ... I had these breakdowns very, very, very milliseconds, but regularly, every minute or every 30 seconds."
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She thought she would never sing again.
Twain also noticed a change in her voice, saying in the documentary that she had lost control. "My voice has never been the same again. I thought I had lost my voice forever. I thought that was everything, [and] I would never sing," she explains.
Above the same time, Twain and Lange went through their divorce.
"In this research to determine what caused this lack of control with my voice and this change in my voice, I face a divorce," she said. "My husband leaves me for another woman. Now I am at a completely different low. And I do not see in progress with a musical career."
Lange left Twain to be with her friend,Marie-Anne Thiébaud. Twain later married Marie-Anne's ex-husbandFrédéric Thiébaud in 2011.
It took years to find answers.
It took a long time before Twain understood that Lyme disease waslinked to his vocal problems.
"I was on a long sabbatical leave, and my son is aging," said TwainPeople in 2020. Twain and Lange have a son,Eja, who is now 20 years old. "I love being a full-time mom, but I started to think:" What am I going to do when I have an empty nest? "I had a problem with my voice; I avoid doing something about it. As my son got more independence, I had more time to start focusing on my voice and I I put all my energy in it. "
She continued: "I thought it was just fatigue or professional exhaustion. But no, Lyme disease generally affects nerves. When I discovered an overview of hope, I ran with that." Twain then sufferedTwo open area surgeries, which allowed him to sing again, but his voice will never be exactly the same as before his diagnosis.
"It would have killed me to never sing," she said. "I was not going to let my life finish if I was not going to be able to sing again, but I would have been very sad and I would have cried that forever. But it is a great love to me and a passion - This is what made me come back to the stage, because I could. Now, I have more appreciation than ever. "
