Caroline Wozniacki chronic ill: "form of gout"

Caroline Wozniacki suffers from a chronic illness.

She revealed Thursday.

– It's a form of gout. An autoimmune disease. It was a shock, says the danish.

Caroline Wozniacki, 28, has long been one of the best tennis players in the world. But after the defeat against Jelina Svitolina in the WTA championship in Singapore, the Dane revealed a secret to the press.

– I do not know exactly what it's called in Danish, but it's a form of gout. An autoimmune disease, and it is chronic, she says according to Ekstrabladet.

"Your own body becomes the enemy"

More specifically, rheumatoid arthritis – a rheumatism of chronic arthritis. The disease is characterized by chronic inflammation and pain

A in the head of the body, and inflammation can break cartilage, tendons and arteries.

– The body believes that its own body is the enemy. Thus, the immune system, which will fight diseases, thinks that his body does not work and then attacks his own body. Most things are about the joints.

Tired and tired

This obviously affects her as a tennis player.

– For a few days, I'm just tired. You must fight through it. In the beginning, before the drug started acting, I was bad on the tennis court. But now I can work in a normal way.

"It was a shock"

Did she think about ending tennis? Yes, she says.

– It's clear that it was a shock for me. But I knew that I had problems with something. I woke up in the morning and felt my shoulders and knees hurt me. I could not lift my hands on my head. I was afraid of having ghost fever, "she says while continuing:

"It's not great for an elite tennis player, but I have to find a way to live with it – I'm proud to have been positive throughout this period and not I did not want to reveal anything to my competitors, and I hope to become a model for other people with the disease.

October 25, 2018 6:37 p.m.