She had spoken out about her health issues previously.
Just two months before her death, Turnerto talk about her health issues in honor of International World Kidney Day. In one of her final posts, she explained that she had put herself in"great danger" by dismissing the severity of her kidney failure.
"Today is International World Kidney Day. Why is it important? Because kidneys fail without pain," Turner wrote in the March 9 Instagram caption."And that's why I'm telling you today: Show your kidneys love! They deserve it.""My kidneys are victims of my not realizing that my high blood pressure should have been treated with conventional medicine," she wrote."I have put myself in great danger by refusing to face the reality that I need daily, lifelong therapy with medication. For far too long I believed that my body was an untouchable and indestructible bastion."Show Your Kidneys Love website"If I had known how high blood pressure and kidney disease are connected, I would have been spared a lot of suffering," the singer said. She explained in the blog post that she began experimenting with natural, homeopathic remedies after convincing herself that the prescriptions she was taking to control her hypertension were making her feel worse. But this ended up being a dangerous decision. "I had not known that uncontrolled hypertension would worsen my renal disease and that I would kill my kidneys by giving up on controlling my blood pressure," Turner wrote."I never would have replaced my medication by the homeopathic alternatives if I had had an idea how much was at stake for me. Thanks to my naivety I had ended up at the point where it was about life or death." In fact, Turner said confusion over her medication caused her to ignore the signs of her failing kidney. "Some of the symptoms that I blamed on the medication, like my fatigue, nausea or occasional irritability, were really signs of my kidney disease in its final stage," she wrote."How could it occur to me to make treatment decisions all by myself? If I had had any idea about the risk I was taking I would never have taken any chance on alternative medicine. The doctors made it very clear that the consequences of my decision were irreversible. My kidney function had reached its all-time low."
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