Dr. Sandra Lee, the dermatologist whose pimple popping videos became a viral internet sensation, suffered a stroke while filming her TV show, Dr. Pimple Popper: Breaking Out. “I had what I thought was a hot flash. I got super sweaty and didn’t feel like myself,” Lee told People. After leaving the set where she was filming, her symptoms worsened. “In one leg I kept feeling shooting pains,” she said. “I noticed that I was having a tough time walking down the stairs.” After struggling to articulate her words the following morning, she called her father, who is also a doctor. He advised her to go to the emergency room immediately. An MRI confirmed what Lee had feared: a stroke. The celebrity doctor halted filming of her show and spent months in recovery. Lee is now on blood thinners and is undergoing physical therapy at home. Though returning to her duties as perhaps America’s best-known skin doctor, Lee has a message for the public: “I want to get the word out that if you have symptoms like I had, make sure you see your doctor. Take care of yourself.”
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