Big Brother star suffered from chronic illness during ‘painful’ challenge | football

Evicted Big Brother star Daze Aghaji recalls suffering from chronic illness during her time on the show, particularly in the grueling hours before she even entered the main house.

The climate activist was voted out as the second housemate after developing a close friendship with fellow contestant Lily and managing to win one of the early challenges by keeping her arm in the air for three hours.

Viewers were devastated when Daze was thrown out of the house, claiming she had been “robbed”. However, the 24-year-old Londoner has now explained that she was recently diagnosed with a chronic illness and was struggling with an “unusual” symptom in the house. She didn’t want to risk her health any further and was ready to leave.

Chatting with metroDaze revealed that she was diagnosed with long-Covid in 2020, which “triggered a whole bunch of weird autoimmune problems that all started to link together.”

She continued: “And right before I went in the house I had this really bad pain in my ankle and all the joints and then I found out through some blood tests and the inflammatory markers that I have rheumatoid arthritis.”

Daze shared that it was Big Brother’s doctors who told her about the diagnosis as they received her medical records before her.

“It’s one of those things I’m learning to deal with now,” she said.

“With autoimmune diseases you never really know what it is, it’s like you get a diagnosis and then it changes, or they think maybe you have something else and that changes.”

“Living with a chronic illness is interesting because it teaches you to be different and, especially in the context of the house, it really puts into perspective what I care about and a cause that is very close to my heart lies is my health.”

Related to her immune health, Daze suffers from oral allergy syndrome, which flared up unexpectedly while she was in the house.

She recalled: “One day I got a massive rash on my arm from cutting a carrot, which is very unusual and has never happened to me.”

The medical scare left her wondering if she was willing to “risk” her health. “I realized it just wasn’t me,” she said.

Daze continued: “That’s the thing with chronic illness, you have a certain resilience and then it just breaks down, especially with the years of having Covid for a long time and not knowing what’s wrong with me and Don’t have a lot of scientific research on what I should do.” If you do better, you never want to get to the point where resilience is exhausted and you see yourself like, “I could have pulled myself out of that situation. “

In one of the first challenges in the house, Daze competed against Lily and Emma and half of her housemates and kept her hand in the air the longest.

They managed to stay there for hours, and Daze finally convinced Lily that if she put her hand down first, she would reward her – not realizing that they would all get a bed to sleep in and hot water anyway.

At the time, Daze had vowed that he would rather “go home” than sleep another night without a bed.

Recalling the strenuous task, she said: “In the arm challenge, I first raised my hand and thought, ‘Oh God, I really want to get out of here,’ and I don’t know where I got the mental strength and the physical strength, mine Holding my hand in the air for almost three hours, I don’t know where I got that from, it was quite surprising to me.

“But then there came a point in the process where I wanted to lower my hand, and I started moving it, and it was actually more painful trying to lower my hand than holding it up.”

“And at that point I kind of thought, ‘I’ve reached the point of no return.’ So if I don’t get a bed tonight, it’s going to be terrible.” In the end, that’s what kept me going has.

“I thought, I know, now I messed up a little bit. So if I put my hand down and lose that and have to sleep on the floor, it’s going to be one of the worst nights of my life.

“And then I thought, ‘Yeah, I have to find a way to win.'”

Daze had previously said on Late and Live about “difficulties” with the challenge: “Most people didn’t know that I actually have a chronic illness and I have rheumatoid arthritis, so I was really worried about the damage I was doing my body by sleeping on the floor.’