Doctors told me my breath seizes for thirty minutes anytime I sleep – Drogba of YOLO fame
Ghanaian actor, John Peasah popularly known has Drogba from the hit TV series, YOLO, opened up about his distressing ordeal with Sleep Apnea which he was recently diagnosed with amidst his Stiff Person Syndrome condition.
Drogba was diagnosed with Stiff Person Syndrome in March this year and has been to the hospital numerous times for medical treatment.
He has revealed that despite seeking several treatments, he sees no improvement in his situation and hence will seek medical treatment abroad.
In an interview on Accra-based Hitz FM, he said “Regarding my treatment, I realized that anytime I got to the hospital I don’t respond to treatment. That is where they noticed that I’m suffering from Stiff Person Syndrome, and it took them four months to diagnose me.
“My neurologist at the Bank Hospital was the one who diagnosed the whole thing for me. At the end of the day, Korle-Bu came up with the same thing.
“No, it does not work on me. It makes me kind of sleepy and those things but it does not really work. It numbs the pain a little bit when the doctor saw a trait of Stiff Person Syndrome that is where we saw it was working slightly on me,” he said.
In the past weeks, Peasah revealed he has also been diagnosed with Sleep Apnea which was as a result of his condition with Stiff Person Syndrome.
He disclosed his struggles with Sleep Apnea.
“I realized that I was not having sleep apnea, but the sleep apnea was diagnosed recently, and I have to use the sleep pap machine because, according to them, anytime I sleep, I seize to breathe within thirty minutes, I can go off. My heart will just be the only thing beating and I will come back again,” he noted.
“My own, I don’t know where it is coming from, so that is how come it confuses the doctor; they don’t know what is going on, and we know that Stiff Person Syndrome is very hard to diagnose,” he said.
“No, it does not work on me. It makes me kind of sleepy and those things but it does not really work. It numbs the pain a little bit when the doctor saw a trait of Stiff Person Syndrome that is where we saw it was working slightly on me,” he said.
In the past weeks, Peasah revealed he has also been diagnosed with Sleep Apnea which was as a result of his condition with Stiff Person Syndrome.
He disclosed his struggles with Sleep Apnea.
“I realized that I was not having sleep apnea, but the sleep apnea was diagnosed recently, and I have to use the sleep pap machine because, according to them, anytime I sleep, I seize to breathe within thirty minutes, I can go off. My heart will just be the only thing beating and I will come back again,” he noted.
“My own, I don’t know where it is coming from, so that is how come it confuses the doctor; they don’t know what is going on, and we know that Stiff Person Syndrome is very hard to diagnose,” he said.
