Getting candid.

Bachelor Nation fans met Elizabeth Corrigan on Season 26 of “The Bachelor,” and she’s kept fans updated with her life on social media ever since.

This week, Elizabeth took to Instagram to reflect back on 2023 and revealed that she dealt with serious medical struggles for most of the year.

The Bachelor Nation star said, “2023 was a year unmatched in pain, and blanketed in gratitude. Funny how those two couple. You may have seen me mention time in the hospital. Here goes my best attempt at ‘the short version.’ I began to have more of what I’ve come to call episodes: I lose hours of time and become unresponsive, have a seizure, experience visual skewing. It becomes so bad that I can no longer be independent and at the end of July I need to live with my parents. In August I lost my driving privileges and began a series of trips to the hospital.”

Elizabeth went on, saying, “Meanwhile neurologists, endocrinologists, primary care physicians, behavioral health psychologists and ophthalmologists are telling me these symptoms are a product of my anxiety. I knew they were not. Women-trust your gut. I beg to be referred to Mayo and my insurance refuses. In August I’m admitted to the hospital with a blood sugar of 21. A blood sugar of 21 kills most. Neurologists and endocrinologists continue to tell me this is anxiety.”

Elizabeth shared that in October she was rushed to the hospital again and knew that she either needed surgery or to be referred to the Mayo Clinic because she felt like she was “going to die.”

The Bachelor Nation star revealed that during her October hospital visit, she finally got a diagnosis.

She said, “I was put under for an upper endoscopy and they found it — the insulinoma: an insulin-secreting tumor in my pancreas. Odds of this tumor are 1 in 4 million. I’ve always been a lucky girl. Two miracle emergency surgeries and I am safe. A month in the hospital. I begin to see myself again, sparks of who I was re-emerge. I had not recognized myself for 19 months and in July had become so hopeless I no longer had a desire to be here.”

Elizabeth shared that her family and friends helped her hold on and she is so grateful to those who were there for her.

Many of Elizabeth’s fellow Bachelor Nation stars. like Demi Burnett, Trista Sutter, Susie Evans, Mara Agrait, and many more, shared their love and well wishes for Elizabeth in the comments of her post.

We’re so glad Elizabeth is doing better now, and we know that her sharing her story will help others experiencing something similar.