Shawn Johnson Says She Refused Ache Meds For C-Part After Previous Adderall Dependancy

Whereas collaborating in a Q&A together with her followers on her Instagram Tales Friday, the Olympic gymnast — who gave beginning to son Barrett “Bear” on December 12 through C-section — revealed she refused painkillers to assist with the restoration from her Caesarean supply as a result of a previous habit to Adderall.

In a single slide, Johnson, 31, responded to a fan who requested how Bear’s beginning “in contrast” to the beginning of her first two kids: daughter Drew, 4, and son Jett, 2.

“Third c-section was positively the toughest however smoothest (if that is doable HA),” she wrote. “Had a lot scar tissue that they reduce out and cleaned up so I used to be SUPER sore and swollen.”

“Feeling nice now although,” Johnson added. “I additionally refuse all ache meds haha (they make me SO sick and admittedly after being hooked on adderall it simply scares me so I don’t even mes [sic] with it).”

The Olympic gold medalist went on to share extra particulars about her “adderall historical past” and her determination to show down “narcotic ache meds” for her C-section.

“Okay … lengthy story brief throughout my comeback in 2010 I used to be prescribed adderall to ‘curl my urge for food and provides me extra vitality’ however not a very good physician,” Johnson wrote alongside a photograph of herself holding her new child in a hospital mattress.

“Quick ahead 7 years of being closely hooked on it and having it management me, after I lastly freed myself of it I swore something remotely addictive I might avoid,” she continued. “It affected each a part of my life and altered who I used to be.”

“I by no means need to really feel uncontrolled like that once more,” Johnson concluded. “So …. Tylenol and Motrin for me :)”

Again in 2020, Johnson shared a video on her YouTube channel, through which she detailed her struggles with an consuming dysfunction, capsules, and a miscarriage after her skilled gymnastics profession got here to a halt.

After she gained 15 kilos following the Olympics, the mother of three mentioned she “began doing something and all the things I probably may to lose the burden and to seem like I did” through the Olympic coaching, turning to ephedrine, Adderall, and varied weight reduction capsules to assist attain that Olympic picture.

“I began doing any and all the things I probably may to lose the burden and to seem like I did on the Olympics,” Johnson mentioned. “As a result of in my thoughts, everyone praised me for what I did on the Olympics, they praised who I used to be as a human being after I was there. And in my thoughts if I may seem like that — not essentially compete or do gymnastics —  but when I may very well be that particular person once more, then the world would say that I used to be ‘sufficient’ and I used to be accepted.”

“I went via this darkish sort of spiral of some years on horrible drugs and medicines that attempted to spike my metabolism and did nothing,” she confessed, later including that she began taking “heavy doses” of Adderall once more when she tried to make the Olympic group in 2012.

“I continued to compete into 2012, the place I simply began to get depressed, I believe as a consequence and a facet impact of Adderall,” Johnson continued, sharing that was believed she was “overdosing” on the drug, which is prescribed for ADHD.

She married Andrew East in 2016, and so they obtained pregnant a yr later, however she suffered a miscarriage.

Acknowledging it as her “low level,” Johnson frightened her “unhealthy choices” throughout her Olympic coaching would make it inconceivable to have kids.

Nonetheless, a health care provider instructed her in any other case and, the couple welcomed daughter, Drew, in 2019.

“There was one thing that switched after I obtained pregnant, the place it was now not about me or my physique or just like the vainness or just like the energy or what I seemed like or what I weighed,” she confessed. “I may have cared much less. It was about defending my child. And I used to be so excited by that.”