Joe Manganiello<\/strong><\/a> is pulling back the curtain on his health journey.<\/p>\n \u201cSo some of you may know, yesterday People.com<\/em> announced that I had written a new memoir, and I just wanted to take a few moments to talk about that a little bit,\u201d Manganiello, 49, said in a Wednesday, June 24, Instagram<\/a> video.<\/p>\n He continued, \u201cSo for the better part of the past decade \u2014 most people don\u2019t know this \u2014 but I suffered in silence, battling a deadly mystery illness<\/a>. And other than a very small circle of family and friends, I hid it from the rest of the world, and until recently hadn\u2019t really shared what I\u2019d gone through.\u201d<\/p>\n Manganiello explained that he saw \u201cthe best doctors in the world\u201d but that the medical professionals could not explain what started his illness.<\/p>\n \u201cAll of their attempts to treat it with high-powered biologic drugs only exacerbated my symptoms and then unlocked a host of brutal side effects that have [been] plaguing me for years. In attempts to buy myself time, I underwent very serious operations and procedures that mutilated parts of my body and left me so weak at times that I couldn\u2019t stand up or walk,\u201d he said. \u201cI spent months and months heavily medicated while dealing with excruciating boughs of chronic pain.\u201d<\/p>\n Manganiello went on to detail the contents of his new memoir, Bloodlines<\/em>, which is hitting bookshelves on October 13.<\/p>\n \u201cIt documents my 10 year search for answers and expands the globe, and also backwards in time as I expand on my understanding of my family\u2019s history<\/a> and make some absolutely unbelievable discoveries as I wake up to the idea that maybe what happened to me wasn\u2019t random,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that in order to heal, my mind, my body, my spirit all had to align and I needed to become open to some really radical and unorthodox techniques and ideas that lied beyond the boundaries of western medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n
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