Imprisoned As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis has filed a lawsuit against two Southern California detention facilities for "gross negligence" over denying him prescriptions, which led to a hormonal imbalance that he says caused "painfully sensitive, breast enlargement."
Loudwire reports that a suit filed late last year accuses a nurse, a doctor and a psychiatrist at San Diego County Sheriff Department's Vista Detention Facility and George F. Bailey Detention Facility of denying Lambesis anastrozole, a drug used to offset side effects associated with anabolic steroid withdrawal. The metal singer had been taking the medication regularly ahead of being incarcerated in 2014 for the attempted murder plot on his wife.
The suit alleges that being denied anastrozole led to Lambesis suffering symptoms of gynecomastia, a build-up of fat tissue in the pectoral muscles that can be triggered by a hormonal imbalance due to steroid use. The frontman claims he experienced "exponential terror" at the thought of developing breasts.
"On or about June 10, 2014, my very fears evinced themselves upon my physique in the first palpable formings of, painfully sensitive, breast enlargement," he wrote. "Panic striken [sic] — at these initial signs of gynecomastia, I began to physically shake uncontrollably; shivering with battling anxiety and depression. Such chronic anxiety caused me to compulsively rub and scratch myself excessively and upon unusual places of my person."
After being consulted with a different doctor in July 2014, he was given daily dosages of anastrozole, but he continues to "suffer the adverse adornment of fully formed breasts" after initially being denied the medication.
He wrote: "As I am a stage performer by profession, much of my act is based upon the visual stimulus of audience perception — i.e., as a front man of leading rockstardom, my continued success is contingent upon my projecting a favorable physical image, Now, with the advent of these unsightly breasts, my music career shall undoubtedly suffer monetarily."
Lambesis had initially sued for $35,000 in punitive and general damages. A judge dismissed the punitive damages claim back in April, but medical negligence claim is still awaiting trial.
You can read Lambesis's legal filings over here and here.
Back in the spring, Lambesis' prison ID card went for sale on eBay.
Loudwire reports that a suit filed late last year accuses a nurse, a doctor and a psychiatrist at San Diego County Sheriff Department's Vista Detention Facility and George F. Bailey Detention Facility of denying Lambesis anastrozole, a drug used to offset side effects associated with anabolic steroid withdrawal. The metal singer had been taking the medication regularly ahead of being incarcerated in 2014 for the attempted murder plot on his wife.
The suit alleges that being denied anastrozole led to Lambesis suffering symptoms of gynecomastia, a build-up of fat tissue in the pectoral muscles that can be triggered by a hormonal imbalance due to steroid use. The frontman claims he experienced "exponential terror" at the thought of developing breasts.
"On or about June 10, 2014, my very fears evinced themselves upon my physique in the first palpable formings of, painfully sensitive, breast enlargement," he wrote. "Panic striken [sic] — at these initial signs of gynecomastia, I began to physically shake uncontrollably; shivering with battling anxiety and depression. Such chronic anxiety caused me to compulsively rub and scratch myself excessively and upon unusual places of my person."
After being consulted with a different doctor in July 2014, he was given daily dosages of anastrozole, but he continues to "suffer the adverse adornment of fully formed breasts" after initially being denied the medication.
He wrote: "As I am a stage performer by profession, much of my act is based upon the visual stimulus of audience perception — i.e., as a front man of leading rockstardom, my continued success is contingent upon my projecting a favorable physical image, Now, with the advent of these unsightly breasts, my music career shall undoubtedly suffer monetarily."
Lambesis had initially sued for $35,000 in punitive and general damages. A judge dismissed the punitive damages claim back in April, but medical negligence claim is still awaiting trial.
You can read Lambesis's legal filings over here and here.
Back in the spring, Lambesis' prison ID card went for sale on eBay.
