Common TikTok star Kyle Prue is sharing his wrestle with Lyme illness, which he says drastically modified his life when he was identified at age 17.

“I’ve been making an attempt to make this video for a couple of days now, and I’ve been having loads of bother with it,” he stated in a brand new TikTok Thursday. “I’ve been having loads of bother articulating myself, however I’m simply going to barrel via proper now.”

“It’s about one thing crucial to me. I wish to speak about Lyme illness, and particularly the final dialog that’s been taking place over the Web about Lyme illness over the previous few days.”

“I’ve been affected by Lyme illness for almost all of my life,” Prue shared. “I’ve complete organs which might be non-functioning due to it.”

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Though Prue declined to “get into all of the methods wherein it had affected my life,” he stated “I must take drugs each single day of my life — till I die — with a purpose to compensate for that truth.”

Prue stated he was impressed to come back ahead after mannequin Bella Hadid shared her years-long wrestle with Lyme — and “as an alternative of this being met with sympathy, which I might count on, I’ve seen it met with loads of vitriol and loads of conspiracy hypothesis.”

The actor — who created and stars within the YouTube sequence “Rabbit” and based Sparking Literacy, a nonprofit that encourages teenagers to learn and write —  stated he’s seen loads of feedback asking why celebrities have Lyme, or arguing in opposition to the seriousness of it.

He referenced one remark claiming that it’s treatable illness brought on by a bug chunk — which means the black-legged tick, which transmits the micro organism inflicting the illness to people when an contaminated one attaches itself to feed.

“I’ve heard it stated that it’s a faux sickness that wealthy folks have made as much as clarify going to rehab or to cowl up consuming problems,” Prue stated. “Principally [people are] saying that Lyme illness doesn’t really actually exist, a minimum of not within the long-term sense. “

Prue stated that when he was identified as a teen, “I wasn’t making an attempt to cowl something up. I used to be simply sick.”

The CDC estimates that 476,000 individuals are identified and handled for Lyme annually, making it the most typical vector-borne (which means, transmitted by the chunk of a flea, mosquito, or tick) illness in america.

It will probably trigger issues like Lyme arthritis (which might result in everlasting joint harm), Lyme carditis (which might require a pacemaker), and neurologic Lyme, the place it spreads to the spinal twine and nerves.

Prue stated that seeing content material creators “punching down at sick folks within the identify of celeb gossip? Man, it’s felt actually f–ing horrible. And actually alienating.”

He identified that the critics “haven’t any medical diploma, no coaching and have executed actually no analysis.”

“It’s been very emotionally affecting.”

The video is a departure from the sort of content material that Prue usually shares on TikTok, the place his in style — and humorous — “How one can Piss off Males” sequence helped him earn 1.2 million followers.

He shared that he’s by no means mentioned his Lyme analysis as a result of “I used to be actually afraid about being part of a dialog like this — a dialog the place my expertise could be belittled.”

And he had one thing to say to the content material creators buying and selling in conspiracy theories.

“I hope you are feeling blessed to have by no means been via this. I hope your content material is price it.”