Paging Dr. Gaga!
Lady Gaga is sharing health tips on social media after revealing that she suffers from chronic pain that sometimes makes it hard to get out of bed.
On Instagram, she posted a photo of her shoulder being treated and captioned it: “Having a frustrating day with chronic pain, but I find myself feeling so blessed to have such strong intelligent female doctors.”
Fans responded with concern and support so Gaga followed up with another post, this time showing the superstar wrapped in an “emergency” blanket and sitting in a sauna.
“I was so overwhelmed by the empathy, confessions & personal stories of chronic pain in response to my previous post I thought what the hell. Maybe I should just share some of my personal remedies I've acquired over the past five years,” she wrote.
Making sure to advise people to consult their own physicians, Gaga said she likes the results she gets from using an infrared sauna.
The singer raised eyebrows among her 19.6 million followers, though, when she said the silver blankets are “effective for detox as well as weight loss!” (Detoxing is widely dismissed by medical professionals as unscientific, ineffective and potentially dangerous.)
Gaga added: “In order to not overheat my system and cause more inflammation i follow this with either a VERY cold bath, ice bath (if u can stand it, it's worth it) or the most environmentally savvy way is to keep many reusable cold packs in the freezer ( or frozen peas' n carrots'!) and pack them around the body in all areas of pain.”
Gaga’s pain-fighting advice got nearly 450,000 “likes” in the first 24 hours online.