Elvis Presley constipated for 4 months as autopsy reveals grisly details of toilet death

Mystery has long surrounded the death of Elvis Presley after his family sealed the results of his autopsy for 50 years.

The King was only 43 when he was found face down on the bathroom floor of his Graceland home, appearing to have fallen from the toilet.

The last decade of his life had seen his health sink in the face. After years of drug addiction, the once agile star weighed 25 stones and had spent months boarded up in her bedroom gorging herself on trays of cheeseburgers.

He needed a full-time nurse and apparently refused to bathe throughout 1975, causing him to develop sores on his body.

Due to his horrible diet, he suffered from chronic constipation and an autopsy revealed that he had compacted four month old stool sitting in his intestine.

The singer was also on a cocktail of drugs and had been prescribed nearly 9,000 pills, vials and injections in the seven months before his death.

And it was his girlfriend Ginger Alden who found the body of the rock and roll star with his pajama bottoms around his ankles and buttocks up.

Of the distressing scene, Ginger, who was only 21 at the time, wrote in her memoir: “Her arms were resting on the floor, near her sides, palms facing up.

“It was clear that from the moment he landed on the ground Elvis hadn’t moved.

“I slowly turned his face towards me. A hint of air expelled from his nose.

“The tip of her tongue was clenched between her teeth and her face was stained.

“I gently lifted an eyelid. His eye was looking straight ahead and was blood red. “

An autopsy was performed the same day, but the report was immediately sealed for 50 years by the family, sparking a series of speculation about what killed him.

Dan Warlick, chief investigator for the state’s chief medical examiner’s Tennessee office, attended the autopsy and fueled the popular theory that Elvis died trying to use the bathroom.

He once said: “Presley’s chronic constipation – the result of years of prescription drug abuse and high fat and cholesterol sips – resulted in what is known as the Valsalva maneuver. heart. ”

Others claimed he died of a drug overdose, but when the inquest was reopened in 1994, Coroner Joseph Davis disagreed.

He explained: “Elvis Presley’s body position was such that he was about to sit in the commode when the seizure occurred. He leaned forward on the mat with his back in the air, and was dead by the time he hit the ground. .

“If it was a drug overdose, [Elvis] would have slipped into a state of increasing sleep. He allegedly pulled up his pajama bottoms and crawled to the door to ask for help. It takes hours to die from drugs. “

The autopsy results are expected to be unlocked in 2027, but until then the biggest glimpse into the star’s mysterious death has come from prominent California physician Forest Tennant, who has actually reviewed the report while defending Elvis’ doctor, Dr. George Nichopoulos, who was subsequently acquitted of over-prescribing drugs.

For Mr. Tennant, a major clue was the deterioration of Elvis’ entire body, with nearly every organ in the throes of poor health.

As a young man, Elvis was extremely fit, playing soccer and practicing martial arts. He began to abuse drugs including amphetamines, opioids and sedatives as a teenager and is known to have had a terrible diet.

But for Tennant, that wasn’t enough to explain the long list of illnesses that plagued the rock star from the late 1960s.

First he complained of dizziness, back pain and insomnia, eye infections and headaches, and in 1973 he was rushed to hospital in a semi coma and suffered from jaundice, severe respiratory distress, marked swelling of the face, distended abdomen, constipation, bleeding gastric ulcer and hepatitis.

He was hospitalized again in 1975 with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and a condition called megacolon, in which the large intestine distends and can allow toxins to flood the body.

He also had at least four near-death overdoses that left him unconscious and in need of resuscitation, and his heart was double the normal size.

And although he had never smoked, he also suffered from emphysema. So what had caused all these pathological processes in his stomach, liver, lungs, heart, spine, eyes and intestines?

Forest believes this is all due to a serious head injury he suffered in 1967 that triggered progressive autoimmune inflammatory disease.

In her opinion, as shared in a 2013 medical article, when Elvis tripped over a television cord and knocked unconscious on the tub, the injury was so severe it caused brain tissue to shift and infiltrate in his bloodstream.

There, the body identified the material as foreign and produced antibodies to destroy it, triggering hypogammaglobulinemia, a disorder of the body’s immune system.

At the time, little was known about autoimmune diseases, but nowadays they are known to cause most of the symptoms Elvis had, including chronic pain, irrational behavior, obesity and enlarged and diseased organs such as the heart and intestines.

And in 2016 Garry Rodgers, a retired homicide detective and forensic coroner, told the Huffington Post with those findings in mind, he allegedly attributed Elvis’ death to a heart attack caused by heart disease and drug use caused by an autoimmune disease that was triggered by brain damage.

He said, “I should classify Elvis’ death as an accident. There’s no one to blame – certainly not Elvis. He was a seriously injured and sick man.

“There is no particular negligence on the part of anyone and certainly no cover-up or conspiracy of a criminal act.

“If Dr. Forrest Torrent is correct, there just wasn’t a good understanding at the time as to what really killed the King of Rock & Roll.”