Category: Celebrity Health

Celebrity Brain Tumor Survivors (and Non-Survivors). This week American singer Sheryl Crow revealed in an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal that she was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

Apparently, what prompted her to visit the doctor is the fact that she was experiencing memory loss. She found out that she has meningioma or a tumor in the meninges which is the membrane which surrounds our brains.

Despite the diagnosis, Sheryl allayed the fears of her fans with this post on her Facebook page: “Hey everyone – please don’t worry about my ‘brain tumor’, it’s a non-cancerous growth. I know some folks can have problems with this kind of thing, but I want to assure everyone I’m OK.”

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Celebrities with body dysmorphic disorder or BDD appear to be not as common as celebrities with OCD as well as those with bi-polar disorders but this does not mean than they’re actually less common. In fact, back in 2010, Dr. Jamie Feusner, a psychiatrist at the University of California in Los Angeles told CNN that he and his colleagues have treated several celebrities for BDD but only few have publicly admitted their condition.

But what is body dysmorphic disorder? According to the National Institutes of Health, BDD is a sever psychiatric disorder whereby a sufferer “believe they look ugly or deformed (thinking, for example, that they have a large and ‘repulsive’ nose, or severely scarred skin), when in reality they look normal.” BDD is also known as dysmorphophobia and it is sometimes associated with eating disorders, such as compulsive overeating, anorexia nervosa or bulimia.

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Celebrities With Gallstone Surgeries. Looking for celebrities with gallstones? We’re surprised to find out that several high profile people – from the Dalai Lama to Eric Clapton – had gallstone problems.

Dalai Lama: In October 2008, the Dalai Lama underwent a gall bladder surgery in hospital in Mumbai, India which resulted in the removal of multiple gallstones. According to Agence France Presse, the keyhole procedure or laparoscopy involved the use of a “thin, lighted tube with a miniature video camera to enable doctors to see the location of the organs and any stones”.

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Celebrities With Kidney Transplants. Time for another story on celebrity health, fellow Health Care Zoners. After talking about celebrities with tinnitus and celebrities with bipolar disorder, we think its time for us to focus on famous people who had kidney transplants.

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Did you know that Coldplay lead vocalist Chris Martin is afflicted with tinnitus? We didn’t either but he revealed recently that he was diagnosed with the condition nearly ten years ago and that it was caused by his propensity to listen to music oh-so-loudly when he was a teenager.

For those of you not familiar with it, tinnitus is a condition where one hears phantom noise — such as buzzing, humming, hissing, ringing, roaring — that are not actually there. It is more common than you think (one in five reportedly has it) and, aside from constant exposure to loud noise, it can be cause by other factors such as earwax blockage, medication, age-related hearing loss, stress and depression, high blood pressure, and many more.

Aside from Chris Martin, here are eight other celebrities with tinnitus:

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Like Drew Barrymore, U.S. teen substance abusers begin using drugs and alcohol at age 14. She looks like the epitome of the fresh-faced, innocent all-American girl-next-door, but Drew Barrymore is really more of a poster child for teenage drug addiction.

After making her film debut at five years old, she starred in her breakout role in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, then quickly went on to become one of Hollywood’s most recognized child actors.

But her life quickly spiraled downward into drug and alcohol abuse. By the time she was nine, she was smoking cigarettes. At 11, she was drinking alcohol, at 12, smoking marijuana and at 13, snorting cocaine. This landed her a first stint at rehab, and at 14, a suicide attempt put her back in rehab. In 1990, Barrymore disclosed all this in her autobiography, Little Girl Lost.

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