Brandi Glanville has spent thousands of dollars searching for a diagnosis and treatment for her mysterious health issue.
“I’m out of funds. I’m out over six figures at this point,” Glanville, 52, exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, April 15, while promoting her “Remedy” single. “I don’t have the means to go anywhere at this point. I’m online every day, going down a different rabbit hole. It’s exhausting. It’s all-consuming.”
Glanville has been dealing with an unknown medical condition that has caused facial disfiguration for nearly two years. While speaking with Us, the Bravo alum revealed that she’s spent “over $113,000” trying to find a treatment outside of her health insurance plan. (Glanville has Kaiser and has already run through all their covered options, to no avail.)
“I just wanna find a doctor who makes it, like, his mission to help me,” Glanville said, noting that she still hasn’t received any answers or a definitive diagnosis. “And not just me, [but] these other poor women who have been going through this for so long, and men, too. I’ve had a couple men reach out. I feel for them, like, I know exactly what they’re talking about and the pressure in their head, how they feel it’s gonna explode. … I’m at my wits’ end.”
Glanville has tried an array of treatments and met with various doctors to try and find a concrete diagnosis and substantive treatment plan.
“So, I went to the best infectious disease doctor, I went to the best allergist,” she explained. “I had to because when you’ve seen every doctor at Kaiser and they’re telling you, ‘Maybe see a dentist.’ And you’re like, ‘I’m at the dentist constantly, [but] there’s a lump in my neck and my throat under my cheekbone that goes to the other side of my face.’”
Glanville has also undergone CAT scans, MRIs and ultrasounds, though none of them have revealed “whatever’s living in [her] face.”
“It’s moving down my body, like, literally in my neck now moving on my left shoulder [and] down my arm,” she said. “I have to get up, I have to stretch, I have to get in a hot tub. I have a routine and it sucks.”
While focused on her health battle, Glanville took a step back from the public eye and socializing.
“[My lowest moment is] just not living life and missing out on life,” Glanville said. “I literally don’t do anything and I feel like I’m experiencing [the] COVID-19 [pandemic lockdown] all over again, but with some miserable side effects.”
According to Glanville, her isolation feels like a “prison.”
“I miss socializing with my girlfriends and then having sex with men,” she quipped. “I’m a Scorpio. I love sex. So, I was having a lot of it and now I haven’t had any of it and I’m like, ‘Have I forgotten how to kiss?’ But, like, I’ve lost myself. I feel more insecure than I ever have in my life. Normally, I feel fairly secure and I don’t get nervous. I don’t get anxiety about most things. Some things do give me anxiety, don’t get me wrong, but I feel like I lost Brandi.”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum has also recently started a Cellsound treatment, which is considered an innovative facial and body-contouring treatment that helps to rejuvenate skin, stimulate increased collagen and eliminate excess fat cells.
“It’s an ultrasound therapy,” she explained. “It pisses off whatever’s going on there and it gives me reprieve from the pressure and it’s been very helpful.”
Glanville went on to note that she’s been taking antibiotics and doing a stem cell treatment with Dr. Joy Kong.
“Right after [Kong’s treatment], I had more energy. I feel better,” she said. “I mean, it hasn’t helped the looks of anything as of yet, but I’ve only done it once. I feel like, because my whole body aches, it’s very bizarre.”
While Glanville continues to look for answers about her health, working on her “Remedy” music debut has helped lift her spirits.
“I had the time of my life,” she gushed. “I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I’m alive again. This is what I’ve been missing out on in life.’ Literally, I’m in Groundhog Day. So to do that was so fun, and Australians are my favorite people. We were just joking nonstop all day long on the set. It was just the best shoot day.”
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