Bachelorette’s J.P. Rosenbaum Is ‘Back to Normal’ After Guillain-Barre Syndrome Diagnosis: ‘It Was Life-Changing’

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Feeling healed. Bachelor Nation’s J.P. Rosenbaum is in a much better place following his frightening Guillain-Barré syndrome diagnosis.“It was traumatic,” the 45-year-old reality TV alum exclusively recalled during an interview on Us Weekly‘s “Here for the Right Reasons” podcast. “It was life-changing.

It was eye-opening [and] put things in a perspective that life can kind of take a turn like that, you know? But after a couple months, I was really back to normal.”The illness causes the immune system to react against the nervous system, which can lead to paralysis and weakness throughout the body. “It can become a chronic condition, but fortunately I am not one of those [cases],” the Bachelorette alum explained. “The odds of me getting it again are the same as me getting it in the first place.”The New York native has been “doing well” since his initial episode, recalling that “it came on within less than 24 hours.” The recovery process was “really, really challenging,” Rosenbaum told Us, adding that it “took probably close to two full months” to regain mobility.During a recent Q&A with his Instagram followers, Rosenbaum said that it was “humbling” to “make a full recovery” after struggling with his health. “I was very lucky to be diagnosed quickly and treated quickly,” he wrote. “It limited the damage to my nerves so they were able to heal … Many other people are not as fortunate.”Rosenbaum was hospitalized in December 2019, revealing in an Instagram Story video at the time that he was struggling with “things you do every day, like picking up this phone, or buttoning buttons, tying shoelaces, putting on deodorant.” His then-wife, Ashley Hebert, noted in a social media upload of her own that the construction manager was