WWE Superstar Omos has revealed the serious and rare medical conditions he lives with, explaining that an early diagnosis in college was critical, stating, “I’d have been dead” otherwise.
Speaking on Insight With Chris Van Vliet, Omos detailed his unique health situation: “So it’s kind of similar to what Andre The Giant had. It’s called acromegaly. I think Big Show has it as well. But mine is kind of unique, because I have acromegaly, I also have gigantism, just means that you just grow really, really tall, and I have what you call Partial Cushing’s disease… I have all three combined, and it was the first time in endocrine history that they found a patient that has all three combined.” He added, “So I’m a really, really rare case, to the point where they had a journal published about my case… you’re the first person to admit that actually has this condition.”
He explained the danger: “Once you keep on growing your heart, your organs keep on growing too. Then it’s like cardiac arrest and things of sort… My body produces too many growth hormones, so I have to take a medication to stop my body from using the growth hormones so that I don’t get any bigger.”
Omos discovered the issue at 18 after an MRI revealed a pituitary tumor: “They go, you see this little dot right here, you have a pituitary tumor… Either you’re gonna go blind or you’re gonna have a heart attack… So they said, We need to get this fixed now.”
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