Following a prior Adderall addiction, Shawn Johnson refused pain medication during a C-section.
Because of her Adderall history, Shawn Johnson East chose not to use “narcotic” painkillers during her C-section delivery.
“To put it briefly, a bad doctor gave me Adderall to ‘curb my appetite and give me more energy’ during my comeback in 2010,” the 31-year-old Olympic gymnast wrote in an Instagram Story post on Friday, December 22. “Join me back after seven years of severe addiction and control over it.” Growing up, Johnson East competed in gymnastics and made her Olympic debut in 2008 at the age of sixteen. In 2010, Johnson East had an ACL injury while skiing after winning many gold at the Beijing Olympics. The next year, she resumed her gymnastics training after undergoing reconstructive knee surgery. In the end, Johnson East gave up playing the game in 2012.
Johnson East promised herself she would “stay away” from “anything even remotely addictive” once she had weaned herself off the painkillers. “It affected every part of my life and changed who I was,” she said in closing. That’s not how I want to feel out of control ever again. Thus, for me, Tylenol and Motrin. On December 12, Johnson East and her spouse Andrew East welcomed Barrett “Bear” Madison into the world, their third child. (The couple’s son Jett, 2, and daughter Drew, 4, are also shared.)
Johnson East claims that her birth by C-section with Bear was the “hardest but smoothest” she has ever experienced. In another Friday Instagram Story post, she wrote, “[I] had so much scar tissue that they cut out and cleaned up, so I was SUPER sore and swollen.” “But I feel great right now.”
