Eamonn Holmes: ‘Helps knowing you’re not alone’ This Morning presenter on health issue

Eamonn Holmes, 58, spoke about his health on Twitter and said he’s been affected by something similar to sciatica.

The This Morning presenter underwent a double hip operation back in 2016 after suffering with debilitating pain for 25 years.

And the former Sky News host revealed a certain type of pain is still bothering him as he replied to actress Junie Woonie on Twitter.

Twitter user, Junie, moaned about her sciatica and said: “Sciatica is so bad today, I’m in so much pain, I was hobbling worse than 91yr Richard, when I met him, to give him his get well gift. Thank god the cafe is in the street I live on, I could hardly walk that far, with my spine/leg pain.”

Eamonn said he has been in pain the past couple of weeks as he sent well wishes to Junie.

“Been affected by something similar these past 2 weeks,” the presenter replied.

“Just saying because sometimes it helps ever so slightly just knowing you are not alone. Get Well soon Junie x.”

Duncan Wood, a presenter at Calendar, ITV Yorkshire, also chimed in and said he is suffering with sciatica.

He replied: “So not alone …hospital tomorrow for a spinal injection!! Not been on tellybox for a month!”

“Thinking of you mate,” Eamonn responded. “Let us know how you get on.”

Before his operation three years ago, Eamonn said he “was not very optimistic” of his chances of survival.

But after the successful operation, he woke up thinking his wife, Ruth Langsford, was an angel.

“Ruth’s face was the first thing I saw,” he told Now magazine. “I said if this is Heaven, you’re the angel that I want.”

Eamonn was forced to take 10 weeks off to recover from the surgery.

The ITV favourite was warned he would need the double hip replacement when he was 36- year-old, but he put it on hold to focus on his career.

He finally gave in after 25 years of hip, leg and back pain which forced him to secretly sit on an inflatable disc when presenting.

Following the operation, he encouraged those in a similar situation to not fear the procedure.

Speaking to Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby via a phone call on This Morning, he said: “Obviously I’d prefer not to be going through what I’m going through but for anyone who’s facing this or has this ahead of them, these people know what they are doing, they have got these operations so finely tuned now and the technology is so advanced, so you’ve nothing to worry about.

“Yes, it will hurt a bit but it’ll be better than the pain you were in previously.”

This Morning airs weekdays on ITV from 10.30am.

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