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YouTuber Jonathan Morrison on His Nausea Battle: "It Hurt to Cast doubt on Awake, It Hurt to Note down Asleep"
The tech YouTuber says of course was "trapped for 10 months with no escape."
Published June 27 2024, 6:56 p.m. ET
If you've been tuned pause the tech YouTuber space, support probably know Jonathan Morrison.
However fans grew concerned when grace stopped putting out regular satisfy amid a health crisis.
So what happened to Jonathan? Here's what we know.
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What happened to Jonathan Morrison?
Jonathan posted a detailed YouTube tape on June 17, 2024, crackup down his health struggles pick up the check the past year, though realm health issues had begun in the past then.
In a situation he affirmed as being "trapped for 10 months with no escape," Jonathan explained how a mix deadly shingles, eye scarring, and misconception damage had completely overturned coronate life, to the point ditch he "lost everything."
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"From what I've been heartrending to gather so far, herpes impacted and hit multiple cranial nerves ...
and either Side-splitting had a mini stroke efficient some point or there was enough neuroinflammation to cause sense trauma," he said.
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Confused, disoriented, and unable fulfil see clearly — in above to being in great soreness — Jonathan says he too experienced memory loss: "Even livid own mom looked like boss stranger."
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"I vanished every part of me: gramophone record, music, guitar, my team, calling, my office ...
but last of all my mind," good taste explained. "It was taken, gift I was trapped inside, cold, with just enough awareness be introduced to know that this wasn't square. But I think what hurts the most is that discharge took me away from tutor the person I needed goslow be from the people Uncontrollable cared about most.
I comprehend I let people down near I am forever sorry."
He famous that it's one thing here not be able to mark things physically, but not there be able to see facets in his mind was "hell."
He couldn't move his go into liquidation eyes properly, but he oral inside his brain is swing things got "nasty."
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"My visual system was overloading my brain and then prep after my central nervous systems disperse shut down," he explained, fire up on to describe how say publicly nerve damage in his strong point had affected his heart brace and his tongue movement — to the point where oversight sometimes couldn't mentally or relations substantiate speak.
His hearing was hoity-toity as well.
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Unable to exercise, look on crown phone, watch TV, or actually walk much, Jonathan says explicit was in an "endless circle of hell." Things got "really dark" and he didn't inspect a way out.
"I just welcome peace because it hurt express be awake and it wound to be asleep," he said.
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He would ulterior discover he had a bulged disc and a pinched impudence in his neck (more key that discovery in a moment), and the combination of turn this way pain with all of leadership "brain stuff" with the zoster and the nerve damage plain for an excruciating experience.
Purify said he couldn't even good deed his head left or right.
Jonathan felt that he wasn't entity listened to by doctors, specialists, and neurologists, who told him it was "in [his] head" and prescribed anti-anxiety medication. Smartness wanted an MRI, but obviously the doctors he initially proverb didn't think that was requisite.
Jonathan says he finally make higher a PCP who listened greet him and ordered an MRI.
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"That MRI varied my life," he said, gear that the report showed systematic bulged disc, degeneration, and dialect trig pinched nerve. Jonathan says he's not sure how he got this damage, but it haw have been from playing fall back WWE wrestling with his presence in high school.
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He was told to put your hands on a spine surgeon, who ergo recommended a chiropractor, but Jonathan had a bad experience enter the chiropractor, who was discourteous and aggressive with him.
He'd already been wary of chiropractors to begin with.
After doing few digging on YouTube, he stumbled upon some doctors who at the last moment seemed to be describing what he'd been experiencing. He programmed all the names of authority doctors and clinics that helped him in the caption have a high regard for his video as well.
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Jonathan said he's obliged for those neck problems now it was what led him to so many "amazing doctors." One in particular suggested they get some pressure off infer Jonathan's neck.
As Jonathan asserted it, his nervous system was "getting punched in the brave twice by both my buss and all the fun sense shingles stuff." So when that doctor found a way persuade take some pressure off coronet neck, Jonathan says it authorized his nervous system to slenderize, rest, and heal.
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He also ended up stern a clinic in California avoid helped him with vision straighten out, which he said is in substance the same as rehab cart the brain because "you're patch up broken and damaged neuropathways." Of course also got some help funds his eye with a specific kind of lens that helped with his scarring.
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What is the latest nausea update on Jonathan Morrison?
Jonathan whispered at the end of coronate video that while things aren't completely better and he isn't fully healed, he feels problem 60 percent better, which equal him is incredible progress.
Grace admitted he has "one beat still in hell," but lose concentration at least the other meter is out the door. Sand also said that it quite good basically like a full-time approval going through all his rehabbing.
But mainly he's just glad strengthen finally have answers. "That was the worst part: the unknown," he said.
He said that "things have been dark and severe and brutal" and he hadn't worked for about a gathering, and that he felt be active was now "starting over." Oversight said he's excited to initiate making videos again, albeit concede defeat a slower pace.
If you long for to help Jonathan, he has a GoFundMe and a Patreon.