Carly Pearce

doctors dismissed me for years.

Oh, it's in your head.

Oh, it's you're fine.

You just live a really stressful life.

And it's like, I'm telling you, like my body is telling me something like I've never felt like this in my life.

So I had shortness of breath, but it kind of went away.

And at the time, like I'm an avid runner.

So I was like,

running on this when I shouldn't have been.

I was just like doing my life.

Heart condition goes and runs eight miles.

I'm like, oh, it's fine.

But I knew it wasn't fine.

I ended up fainting and went to the ER and they told me I had pericarditis, which is like inflammation.

Your heart is in a sack and it's the inflammation of the sack around it.

And a pericardial effusion is when it like fills with fluid.

And so I had that, but then I got better.

Well, then I started having these, what they call flares, like over the last few years, like these little flares where I would take a bunch of ibuprofen and I'd be fine.

And last year I was on the road with Tim McGraw and had a flare on a shoot where I knew.

It was bad.