Professor Green issues health update and shares shock picture of his bowel ‘poking out’ as hernia returns
PROFESSOR Green has revealed his bowel hernia has returned after nine years with a painful-looking picture.
In snaps shared to Instagram, the rapper’s bowel can be seen “poking out” of his skin underneath a previous surgical scar.
Celebs Go Dating star Green — real name Stephen Manderson — nicknamed the hernia Henry and documented the latest in a long line of health issues, ending with a resigned: “Here we go again.”
The 42-year-old wrote: “Life’s been a lot lately… I’ve learned I’m not totally free from historic patterns, and in almost the same breath learned I catch things well before I ever did previously, and am (on good days) able to observe my thoughts spiralling without spiralling with them.
“This hernia recurrence happened yesterday and I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t a weight I could do without given everything else health wise that’s going on… out of my control though.”
Green went on to say that it’s up to him to take responsibility of the situation and embrace the latest setback.
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Turning to his music, and his supporting slot on pal Example’s UK tour, as an outlet for frustration, he said: “I’m playing the next single tonight, tomorrow, all through the Example tour and at every show till it drops.”
Following his first hernia removal in 2017, Green had a very rare allergic reaction — only the second person in the world at the time — to the mesh used to fix the issue.
It led to series issues including a a partially collapsed lung, distension and pneumonia.
Just last week Green revealed benign tumours had been found behind his eye and on his spine as part of a condition called schwannomatosis — a rare disorder in which tumours form on nerves around the body.
It followed surgery to remove four more tumours from his head and neck that had been causing him pain.
Among his four new growths is one the size of lemon around his S2 nerve, which is responsible for muscle movement in the lower body.
However, it wasn’t the physical symptoms he found to be the worst thing, rather than the mental torture of not knowing whether or not they were malignant, revealing he suffered trauma fretting over the ‘worst case scenario’.
The star was diagnosed with ADHD and autism when he was 40 and is also a mental health advocate.
Among his other health issues are lifelong struggles with his gut, which required a pyloromyotomy — the cutting away of pyloric muscle to aid the passing of food through the body — at six years old and he later went on to suffer from severe irritable bowel syndrome.
He also has the genetic clotting disorder haemophila B.
