{"id":3940,"date":"2026-10-08T17:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T17:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/?p=3940"},"modified":"2026-10-08T17:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T17:18:18","slug":"joe-manganiello-says-autoimmune-illness-began-with-abdominal-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/?p=3940","title":{"rendered":"Joe Manganiello Says Autoimmune Illness Began With Abdominal Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tJoe Manganiello<\/a> spent seven years getting treatment for an illness doctors couldn\u2019t definitively name.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 49-year-old actor told People<\/em><\/a> that it began with abdominal pain so severe he couldn\u2019t walk. More symptoms followed, including fevers, rashes, fatigue, and rectal bleeding. He writes about the experience in his memoir, Bloodlines<\/em><\/a>, out October 13.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was getting sicker and sicker,\u201d the True Blood<\/em> star recalled. He says he lost 60 pounds over the course of the illness and, in 2016, needed emergency surgery to remove part of his intestines.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tTrying to Manage the Pain\t<\/h2>\n

\n\tManganiello describes his illness as autoimmune<\/a>, when the immune system mistakenly attacks its own healthy tissues.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c[Autoimmune] conditions are a dumping ground for things [doctors] don\u2019t understand,\u201d he said. \u201cThey start running you through this gauntlet of drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDoctors prescribed medication for nerve pain and drugs used to treat Crohn\u2019s disease and colitis<\/a>, but Manganiello says he never received a conclusive diagnosis.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNone of them worked on me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tTo manage the pain, he used hydrocodone pills, fentanyl patches, and marijuana \u2014 something he struggled with after 13 years of sobriety. \u201cI didn\u2019t feel like I deserved to say that I was sober,\u201d he recalled. \u201c[But] I had to put the pain and the condition first.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\tMoving Forward After Years of Illness\t<\/h2>\n

\n\tManganiello says he is now symptom-free and off medication. He also underwent another surgery to reconnect his digestive tract after using an ostomy bag.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe credits working with a shaman and confronting his family\u2019s history of trauma with helping him recover. (That\u2019s his explanation, but it doesn\u2019t tell us whether those experiences changed the course of his illness.)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhatever chains there were to the past suffering of my ancestors, they were completely broken,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s not an ounce of fear in me about moving forward with my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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Joe Manganiello spent seven years getting treatment for an illness doctors couldn\u2019t definitively name. The 49-year-old actor told People that it began with abdominal pain so severe he couldn\u2019t walk. More symptoms followed, including fevers, rashes, fatigue, and rectal bleeding. He writes about the experience in his memoir, Bloodlines, out October 13. \u201cI was getting sicker and sicker,\u201d the True Blood star recalled. He says he lost 60 pounds over the course of the illness and, in 2016, needed emergency surgery to remove part of his intestines. Related story Whitney Port Delays IVF Journey Following ‘Nightmare’ Hernia Surgery Recovery Trying to Manage the Pain Manganiello describes his illness as autoimmune, when the immune system mistakenly attacks its own healthy tissues. \u201c[Autoimmune] conditions are a dumping ground for things [doctors] don\u2019t understand,\u201d he said. \u201cThey start running you through this gauntlet of drugs.\u201d Doctors prescribed medication for nerve pain and drugs used to treat Crohn\u2019s disease and colitis, but Manganiello says he never received a conclusive diagnosis. \u201cNone of them worked on me,\u201d he said. To manage the pain, he used hydrocodone pills, fentanyl patches, and marijuana \u2014 something he struggled with after 13 years of sobriety. \u201cI didn\u2019t feel like I deserved to say that I was sober,\u201d he recalled. \u201c[But] I had to put the pain and the condition first.\u201d Moving Forward After Years of Illness Manganiello says he is now symptom-free and off medication. He also underwent another surgery to reconnect his digestive tract after using an ostomy bag. He credits working with a shaman and confronting his family\u2019s history of trauma with helping him recover. (That\u2019s his explanation, but it doesn\u2019t tell us whether those experiences changed the course of his illness.) \u201cWhatever chains there were to the past suffering of my ancestors, they were completely broken,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s not an ounce of fear in me about moving forward with my life.\u201d Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-female-health-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}