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āBelow Deckā star Fraser Olender revealed he suffered a heart attack and lung injury from vaping.
āA few weeks ago I was rushed to hospital due to severe chest pains and difficulties breathing,ā the Bravo star, 33, wrote on Friday alongsideĀ an Instagram carouselĀ of photos showing him in the hospital.
He noted that the incident led him to spend a week in London hospitals visiting specialists as he sought to find the cause behind the pain he was experiencing.
āTo keep it simple ā I had vape poisoning, (an E-cigarette or Vaping-Associated Lung Injury (EVALI)) and I have never experienced fear or pain like it,ā he shared.
EVALI is āan acute or subacute respiratory illness and can be fatal,ā according toĀ the American Lung Association.
Olender explained that he developed a ācoronary artery vasospasm,ā meaning that the arteries delivering blood to his heart āsuddenly clamped down.ā
āThat spasm reduced blood flow enough to cause an ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), better known as a heart attack ā not because of a blockage, but because my heart wasnāt getting enough oxygen during the spasm,ā he continued.
The Bravolebrity added that heās out of the woods and is āgratefulā to be ārecoveringā now, but still felt the need to share the scary ordeal with his followers because āI never realised something like this could happen.ā
Among the several photos and videos he shared, he also included a brief clip of his boyfriend, āLas Culturistasā podcast host Matt Rogers, supporting him by his hospital bed.
Rogers, wearing a gray hoodie, gave a small smile for the video.
Olender closed the carousel with a picture of himself holding a thumbs up while sitting on flight, showing that heās all healed up.
āIf this experience can help even one person rethink vaping, itās worth telling,ā he went on in his caption.
āI havenāt touched a vape since this happened and never will. The pain I endured for 24 hours was inexplicable, 2 rounds of morphine didnāt touch the sides and eventually had to be given the strongest pain relief legal to administer in ER ā and that only brought my pain from a 10 to a 7.ā
āI could have died for the sake of something so ridiculously stupid, so please do yourselves a favour and give it up too ā cold turkey. We do not know enough about these horrific things but I can tell you one thing; that was NOT cute, not even for the plot,ā he closed.
I donāt care how āharmlessā people claim vaping is ā Fraserās story proves just how deadly that lie can be. One minute he thought it was just chest pain, the next he was flat on a hospital bed fighting for breath as doctors told him his heart had literally gone into crisis from the toxins heād been inhaling. That wasnāt a wake-up call, that was a warning shot from the universe. If anyone saw the fear in his eyes, the way even morphine couldnāt dull the agony, theyād understand why heās done for good. And believe me, if you think a vape canāt ruin your life in a single heartbeat, Fraserās near-death moment should be enough to make you drop it before it drops you.
