Peter Frampton Talks Degenerative Muscle Disease Diagnosis, Farewell Tour

Rolling Stone

About eight years ago, Peter Frampton started to notice that his ankles felt a little tight in the morning. He initially dismissed it as one of the many pains that comes with getting older, but as time passed, his legs began feeling weak as well. He tried to ignore the signs that something was wrong until four years ago when a fan kicked a beach ball onto the stage at one of his concerts and he fell over when he tried to kick it back. “My legs just gave out,” he says. “We all joked, ‘He’s fallen and he can’t get up.’ But I was embarrassed.”  

Two weeks after the beach ball incident, he tripped over a guitar cord on his stage and collapsed again. He was also noticing that his arms were getting so weak that loading heavy objects onto the overhead compartments of planes was becoming extremely difficult. When his tour had some time off, he finally booked an appointment with a neurologist to see what was happening. He was diagnosed with the inflammatory muscle disease Inclusion-Body Myositis (IBM) and sent to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland where he was teamed up with Dr. Lisa Christopher-Stine, the director of their myositis clinic.

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One thought on “Peter Frampton Talks Degenerative Muscle Disease Diagnosis, Farewell Tour

  1. Do you feel like I do…?

    Yeah… that was a good kegger pre beer fight song before the end of the party.

    I mean , what’s left …when the girls are gone at the party.

    You either go home… start a fight. .or pass out and puke somewhere.

    At the the parents house that made the mistake of going on vacation. ..

    Leaving you to watch the house while gone.

    Yeah… good times.

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