Kiddwaya: I nearly died

Terseer Waya, also known as Kiddwaya, who was the third housemate to be kicked out of Big Brother Naija All Stars, has described how he nearly died after receiving the erroneous diagnosis and treatment.

He said that in 2020, following his participation in Big Brother Naija’s “Lockdown” season, he started experiencing panic attacks, but that he had been mistakenly prescribed medication for high blood pressure for three months.

In a recent conversation with well-known media figure Hero Daniels, Kidd made this revelation.

2020 towards achieving fame, he declared. After the [BBNaija Lockdown] show, this happened roughly eight weeks later. Every aspect of the situation was excellent. When I stood up to use the loo one day while I was on my bed talking to my cousin, my legs started to shake.

“COVID-19 was in effect at the time. After that, I began to suspect COVID. When you can drink water but it doesn’t enter, my legs started to tremble and my tongue started to dry up. My vision was foggy. It was obvious that my anxiety was growing. So I gave my doctor a call. My blood pressure was at 180 when she arrived to check it.

The situation was absurd. Since nothing else was being discussed as much in 2020, I merely assumed I had COVID at that point. Therefore, I assumed that was the case.

“The physicians measured my blood pressure and declared it to be extremely high, but they were unable to pinpoint the cause. They only knew that I had very high blood pressure. In order to avoid doing what was intended, they put me on BP medications for months. Because of my anxiety attack, which caused my blood pressure to spike before falling back to normal, I could have actually passed away.

“They [the doctors] put me on BP drugs that were messing with my blood flow because I wasn’t supposed to be on them,” the patient complains. For three months, I was on it. Therefore, my actions could have had negative effects.

He continued, saying that his doctor in London informed him afterwards that he was experiencing an anxiety attack and that it was “nothing to worry about.”