Four Weddings and a Funeral star Andie MacDowell diagnosed with agonising condition
Four Weddings and a Funeral star Andie MacDowell diagnosed with agonising condition
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Andie MacDowell is battling a painful muscle condition called Piriformis syndrome. The Four Weddings and a Funeral star’s ailment causes muscle spasms which compress the sciatic nerve and Andie, 66, has revealed she was initially scared the pain meant she was in need of hip replacement surgery.
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‘I have Piriformis syndrome. It’s a muscle that’s, kind of clamps down on my sciatic nerve and it was shooting down my leg,’ she explained during an appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show. ‘I thought I was gonna have to have hip replacement. Thank God my hips are fine.’.
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Andie started working out with a personal trainer and the exercises she’s been doing have helped ease her pain. She added: ‘I have to work my tiny little bottom and my hips. I have to work the bottom and work my hip. I just do it every day .. It doesn’t hurt anymore – it’s a miracle, it really is.’.
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During the interview Andie also admitted she has also been worried about her knees but she has realised her aches and pains are usually down to her energetic work-outs on an exercise bike. She said: ‘When I was working last season as I did the Peloton like a crazy person and it’s not appropriate for my body, and I ended up with bad knees and a bad hip, and I didn’t realise what was, I thought I was literally falling apart like I was gonna have to get new pieces.
