RHOBH's star Brandi Glanville is rushed to hospital amid her mystery facial parasite battle
The former Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills star, 52, revealed she called 911 on Wednesday after being unable to move her head and neck for hours, preventing her from getting out of bed.
Following her belief that the skin condition that has left her disfigured was caused by a parasite, she also posted photos from hospital while she was hooked up to IVs.
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Brandi wrote on X: 'My head and neck would not move for four hours this morning. I could not get out of my bed.
'I called 911 and had a lovely trip in the ambulance, now I am at this amazing place after sitting in a wheelchair in the waiting room for four hours.'
Last week, Glanville updated her social media followers that she has seen no improvement in her battle with the facial disfigurement.
Brandi shared a photo of a tub filled with brown liquid, explaining it was drainage from her face that's causing various health issues.
In March, she wrote: 'The clear plaque sitting on top like oily wax is produced all day by my face.
'It drains down, eroding my teeth. I can't see and have two 2 hard lumps under my left cheekbone - one on the back of the neck and jawbone. I need an infectious disease doctor who specializes in fungal infections? HELP!'
Brandi, who's said to have spent over $70,000 trying to get better, also complained of having 'chills' and added that 'all of my lymph nodes in head [and] neck are swollen'.
At the time she wrote: 'Doctors at Kaiser [Permanente] say I'm fine.'
Updates: She used social media to keep her followers informed from her hospital bed
Days prior, Brandi revealed she'd been 'faking it' with her seemingly happy demeanor and she's actually been 'f***ing miserable'.
She tweeted: 'My face is worse than ever. It's literally melted away.
'When doctors at [Cedars-Sinai Medical Center] put me on IV antibiotics [and] fungal medication I was getting better. I looked normal, but I couldn't afford to stay on them. I was forced to see doctors outside my insurance because the doctors at Kaiser had no clue. I need my life to change. That is my real-life health update.'
Mysterious: She suffered from symptoms of swelling and 'painful lumps'
Late last year, Brandi admitted on Page Six's Virtual Reali-Tea podcast that she's been suffering from 'deep depression' amid her battle with the mysterious skin condition.
She said: 'The pain is more mental than anything, because I have been hiding and going through a deep, deep depression. Even if I could work now, at this point, I couldn't. So it's just been a really rough two years for me.'
She added at the time that she was also on antibiotics, which she had briefly stopped and caused the skin on her face to 'sink in'.
Woes: Her facial battle began in 2023 when she was hospitalized for a stress-induced condition that causes deep layers of skin to swell up after becoming engorged with fluid (seen in 2023)
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