The former Blue singer tells James Moore about the rare condition that could have left him in a wheelchair. Tottering on stage in high heels, Duncan James struggled through each performance with excruciating back pain.
But as he toured the country with hit musical Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the star had no idea that his problems would soon develop into a rare and serious condition that could have left him in awheelchair.
Duncan had been suffering with a slipped disc, but it began crushing the nerves at the base of his spine leading to dangerous Cauda Equina Syndrome.
As well as back pain, it can cause numbness in the nether regions, loss ofbladder and bowel control, sexual dysfunction, paralysis of the legs and should be treated as
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