BRAXTON WILL BE ON MEDICATIONS FOR THE REST OF HER LIFE
Soul star TONI BRAXTON will have to rely on medications for the rest of h er life to control her ongoing heart problems.
The Unbreak My Heart hitmaker was hospitalised in April 2008 after expe riencing complications relating to microvascular angina - a condition whi ch causes inadequate blood flow through the cardiac blood vessels.
Braxton has refused to let her health issues affect her work - she’s se t to release a new album and go on tour later this year (10).
But the singer reveals she is dependent on medication to help her lead a normal life.
She says, "I was diagnosed with a congenital heart disease and the doct or told me the cure was a a heart transplant, so we had to go over donors to see if I qualified. I never knew so much detail went into getting a t ransplant of any type. It’s a good job I (got a second opinion), because they misdiagnosed me. They told me I’d had a petite heart attack instead, so I was like, ‘OK, wahoo!’ "It can just happen for no reason. People can have perfectly good blood pressure but all of a sudden they complain of chest pains and they find that they have this angina. I’ll be on some medications for the rest of m y life but I can live a normal life. It hasn’t stopped me."
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