Carl Mullan has opened up about developing sepsis.
The 2FM star revealed that what started as a sore throat became an almost fatal illness.
He explained that he was originally diagnosed with gandular fever, but after the pain persisted, he went back to the doctor.
The doctor was shocked and immediately sent him to A&E where he was told he had sepsis.
He shared a video on social media about his experience a few years ago.
“It all starts a few years ago when I got a sore throat. That was it, very simple – a sore throat. After a couple of days, it was getting worse and worse,” he explained.
“After a few days of it not going away, I went to the doctor and found out it was actually glandular fever. It’s actually very common and there’s no cure for it, so you just have to ride it out and take whatever the doctor prescribes for it.
“A warning because this is where the story starts to get a little bit disgusting. After three more days, I was so run down, I was in so much pain and I was taking anti-inflammatory stuff but it was doing nothing for me. I was in a bad way.”
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He continued: “At this point I took a look at the back of my throat and it was covered in white and yellow patches. It was so raw and so painful. It was awful.
“I probably shouldn’t have let it get to the point that it did and I should have gone back to the doctor sooner. I was in so much pain that I went back to the doctor who sent me immediately to A&E because it was in such a bad way.
“I was seen straight away and I always remember the doctor audibly gasped when he saw the back of my throat because it was in a bad way.”
After spending some time in hospital, he explained: “A couple of hours later, the doctor came back and sat me down. He said, ‘You’re really lucky you came into hospital when you did. Why? You’re in the early stages of sepsis.’
“He basically told me that had I not come into the hospital when I did, 12 or 18 hours later I would have been arriving into the hospital in the back of an ambulance.
“I just had glandular fever and a sore throat. I was doing the typical Irish thing of ‘I don’t want to be bothering the doctor. Ah, it will be fine, it’ll be grand, I’ll get over it in a few days.’
“Little did I know that by not wanting to bother people, in the background, what was a normal infection was actually turning into a very dangerous situation. With sepsis, you can get very sick, very very quickly and if you don’t treat it quickly you can go into organ failure. Ultimately, it can be fatal.”
Such a scary reminder!
