Is Britney Spears' Nerve Damage The Reason She Won't Perform Anymore?

Singer Britney Spears has left fans concerned about her for a while now due to her erratic social media behavior.

Lately, she has been posting triplicates of the same post, which has fans wondering if she's trolling them or if she's been hacked. However, on Sunday night, the "Hold Me Closer" singer got candid about her struggles with nerve damage due to oxygen deprivation, also known as hypoxia.

Although the "Hold Me Closer" singer wrote in previously deleted Instagram posts that she doesn't want to perform anymore due to what she experienced during her stifling 13-year conservatorship, could her lingering nerve damage actually be the cause?

In an Instagram post published on November 6, the “Oops!... I Did It Again” singer detailed the nerve damage that she experienced while dancing in a red long-sleeve top and black shorts.

“I’m dancing in time now Victoria … yes … nerve damage on the right side of my body … there’s no cure except God I guess …” Britney began before explaining, “nerve damage is caused sometimes when you don’t get enough oxygen to your brain … your brain literally shuts down 🧠 …”

She then said it was a “blah blah blah old story …” before alleging that she “didn’t breathe” when she was sent to a mental health facility during her conservatorship. “in that place I didn’t breathe when I was there … nerve damage causes parts of your body to go numb,” Britney wrote.

Brit claims that she still has lingering nerve damage, writing, “I wake up like 3 times a week in bed and my hands are completely numb … nerves are tiny and it feels like pins and needles from the right side of my body it shoots up to my neck and the part that hurts the worst is my temple on my head … it stings and it’s scary …”

The 40-year-old pop star then seemed to indicate that all might not be well with her mental health, adding, “the last 3 years since I got out of that place I’ve been in a mild unconscious state … I couldn’t face it 😔. It was like it was too scary to be here …”

Britney’s thoughts then seemed to take a left turn into her Instagram page, writing, “although my Instagram has been not up to par to most … hey hey hey it gave me existence and got me here …”

Fortunately, Britney said that she doesn’t feel the nerve damage when she dances, adding, “it’s funny though when I dance I don’t feel the pain 💃 … it’s like my mind literally goes to a place of my inner child. And although I don’t move like I use to … I truly believe my faith in it gave me strength … by the grace of God I finally found a medication where I actually feel oxygen going to my brain and through my neck 🧠 …”

Although it’s not clear how Britney can “feel” oxygen going to her brain, she added, “my eyes are more open now and I can hold my head up correctly 👁️ … I’ve done a good job trying to pull it off. Either way I’m getting a lot better, I can breathe … I feel smarter because well, Jesus I can breathe now … either way, I’m breathing now and I can dance in time, Victoria …”

Britney signed off her post, writing, “I send all my love to every single one of you … this is me this morning ☀️ … I’m gonna vacuum now !!!”

Britney then followed up her initial post with another video of her dancing in the same outfit. In the caption, she wrote, “I was feeling myself 💋💋💋🙈🙈🙈🙈 !!!”

Some fans expressed concern that Britney might not be doing too well, either due to her nerve damage or due to the medication she said she was on. According to WebMD, hypoxia, or hypoxemia, is used to describe what happens to the body when it doesn’t carry enough oxygen for tissues to meet the body’s needs.

A few of the symptoms of hypoxia are changes in the color of the skin, confusion, fast heart rate, rapid breathing, shortness of breath, and sweating, which are all symptoms that Britney has exhibited during her dancing videos and her occasionally incoherent captions.

Of course, no one can diagnose Britney with anything over her Instagram videos, but fans are just hopeful that she is getting the help that she needs, even if she never performs again.