‘Love Is Blind’ Alum Kwame Appiah Shares Painful Health Diagnosis

love is blind the former Kwame Appiah has had a difficult last few months.

He revealed Thursday that he had been diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, which the Mayo Clinic describes as “a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that causes inflammation and sores, called ulcers, in part of the digestive tract “. Uncomfortable – and often painful – symptoms can include weight loss, fatigue, fever, abdominal pain and cramps, and diarrhea.

Appiah said he wanted to share his story because it might help others.

See his video below.

“In November,” he began, “I got a little sick. I just felt a little bad. But I didn’t take it too seriously and then, the next thing you know, we We’re about a month in. So here’s why this month of waiting really hurt because by the time I got to the doctor in December, I had a fever for about three weeks. lost 20 pounds.”

The doctor told Appiah that his symptoms could be attributed to several illnesses, the reality TV star said. Cancer was one of them, which was “very scary,” he noted in the caption.

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“Let’s come full circle, back to why I’m telling you this,” he said in the video. “We actually found out that I had something called ulcerative colitis, which I was experiencing, at that point, at its worst level.”

Appiah appeared in the Netflix series hosted by Nick and Vanessa Lachey, in which single people meet, date and get engaged without seeing each other, set in 2023. He and another contestant, Chelsea Griffin, eventually married.

Appiah had three takeaways for those reading his message.

“First, just a quick reminder that life is incredibly precious. I didn’t realize how important the normal things I did in my day were to me until I couldn’t do them anymore,” she said. he declared. “Lesson #2: Little things can lead to big problems if we ignore them, so let’s not do it. Lesson #3: Information is everything. You have to know what it is if you want to fight it .”

At the end, he thanked his supporters, including Griffin.