Olivia Flowers is opening up about her brother Conner Plant life‘ unexpected death.

In keeping with the Southern Charm superstar, the coroner dominated that her 32-year-old sibling died from an unintended overload of fentanyl on Jan. 30, years later being prescribed opioids to regard power ache stemming from his longtime fight with Lyme disease.

“My brother hated talking about his illness,” she instructed People in an interview printed Nov. 1. “So many people, even in his close circle, didn’t know about his Lyme.”

Lyme problem is an disease led to by means of the borrelia micro organism this is usually transmitted throughout the chunk of an inflamed tick, consistent with the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. Signs area from fever, headache and fatigue to critical infections within the middle and apprehensive gadget if left untreated.

Olivia stated “debilitating” signs of Conner’s Lyme problem first surfaced when he used to be 15. Although the community briefly sought backup from diverse clinical execs, she recalled that “Conner was just told over and over, ‘It’s all in your head, you’re fine'” and used to be given  painkillers and drugs for his related nervousness in lieu.

“He started depending, at a very young age, on this prescription medicine to feel normal,” Olivia remembered. “And we as a family started to see this toll it took on his body.”