'Years and years' of abusing cannabis leaves Teen Mom 2 star Jenelle Evans suffering withdrawal - on top of a nasty reaction to her birth control pill, The Doctors reveal

Teen Mom 2 star Jenelle Evans has been suffering from a ‘mystery illness' for the past six weeks.

She’d been experiencing night sweats, anxiety, hot flashes, pelvic pain, back aches and more.

The 24-year-old visited several doctors, from North Carolina to New York, in search of answers.

And yet, no one could properly diagnose her illness – until she flew to Los Angeles to seek help from the CBS medical talk show The Doctors.

Finally, on Friday’s episode, the reality star received the answers she had been searching for.

She’s been experiencing side effects from the new birth control pills she’d been taking – as well as withdrawal from marijuana, according to two specialists who appeared on the show.

Dr Joseph Pinzone, an endocrinologist who examined Jenelle, said: ‘In this case, there’s in fact two sets of substances that are going on. 

'One that’s been added, another one that has been taken away.’

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Teen Mom 2 star Jenelle Evans (far right) went on The Doctors to get some answers about a 'mystery illness' she had been suffering for six weeks. Pictured here (left to right), The Doctors co-hosts Dr Andrew Ordon, Dr Travis Stork and Dr Jennifer Ashton, and specialists Dr Joseph Pinzone and Dr Peter Weiss

Jenelle is mother to six-year-old son Jace, as well as one-year-old Kaiser.

She told The Doctors that she had been in good health until her symptoms began six weeks ago.

The reality star said: ‘I thought I was getting sick at first with a pretty bad cold or flu because I was getting night sweats.’

However, she then began experiencing night terrors and insomnia, as well as the anxiety and pelvic pain.

Jenelle said: ‘I’ll wake up in the middle of the night, my legs will be throbbing like someone is hammering my knee caps.’

The former star of the reality show 16 And Pregnant told The Doctors that she was desperate for answers.

She said: ‘Everything kept building up and building up and I was like, I need to get help.’

The Doctors host Dr Travis Stork explained that it’s not uncommon for patients who have a ‘constellation of symptoms’ to struggle to figure out what’s going on.

And so, The Doctors arranged an appointment for Jenelle with Dr Pinzone, which was filmed for the show.

During the examination, Jenelle told the doctor that her symptoms came on gradually.

She had been smoking marijuana ‘a long time, for years and years’ but quit in December.

‘The reason why I stopped is I’m taking my own mother to court to get custody of my son back,’ she said.

Jenelle's son Jace was put into her mother's care after numerous drug issues and other charges. 

The 24-year-old has previously admitted spending $2,800 a week on drugs when she opened up about battling a heroin addiction.

In August 2013 the then 21-year-old was in court to answer charges following an arrest for possession of heroin, prescription drugs, drug paraphernalia and assault of her estranged husband Courtland Rogers.

Jenelle pleaded guilty to possessing drug paraphernalia but the other charges were dropped.

However, when the drug test revealed marijuana in her system she was sent to jail for 48 hours.

Jenelle (pictured here with boyfriend David Eason and son Kaiser) told The Doctors that she had been perfectly healthy until the beginning of January. Then she started experiencing hot flashes, pelvic pain, night sweats, insomnia, throbbing legs, anxiety and more

Both an endocrinologist and an obstetrics and gynecology expert examined Jenelle on the show. She said she had been smoking marijuana for years but stopped in Dovember, and also started a new birth control pill at that time

The specialists determined that she was experiencing bad side effects to her birth control pills, in addition to going through withdrawal symptoms from marijuana

She told The Doctors her symptoms started to appear at the end of January.

Dr Pinzone then conducted a physical exam and a blood test on Jenelle.

The reality star, fed up with the lack of answers she had received in the past, had told The Doctors that she’d like a second opinion as well.

And so, she next visited Dr Peter Weiss, an obstetrics and gynecology expert.

Jenelle told Dr Weiss that she had started taking a new birth control pill, called Junel, in November.

And, she hasn’t had a period in six weeks.

Furthermore, she told Dr Weiss that sex has become painful for her.

He said: ‘Sometimes the simplest answers are right in front of you.’

Both Dr Weiss and Dr Pinzone appeared on today's episode to deliver their diagnosis to Jenelle in front of the live studio audience.

The specialists agreed that the majority of her symptoms are a result of the birth control pills she had been taking.

Dr Weiss said: ‘The simplest thing to do is to stop the pill. And when you stop the pill you’ll let the levels come back to normal.

‘Part of the problem that you had in the past, when they checked the estrogen levels, when you’re on the pill, it artificially lowers your own endogenous estrogen hormones so you’re really measuring the birth control pill, so it really led you down the wrong path.’ 

Jenelle, pictured following an arrest for possession of heroin, prescription drugs, drug paraphernalia and assault of her estranged husband Courtland Rogers in 2013, was told to stop taking her birth control pills. The specialists said that her symptoms should subside after that

The Doctors also recommended that the reality star start seeing a counselor to deal with her anxiety, and set her up with six months of free therapist appointments in her hometown. She was also told that she should either start a new birth control pill, or consider another form of contraception

Furthermore, Dr Pinzone added that she may also be experiencing withdrawal from marijuana.

The host of the show then explained to Jenelle that her recent anxiety may have made her symptoms even worse.

Dr Stork said: ‘In medicine, it’s often the cart before the horse. So you’ve been dealing with all these medical issues, which leads to anxiety, which can worsen medical symptoms.’

He recommended she see a counselor to help clear her head – and then revealed that a clinic in her hometown of Wilmington, North Carolina has offered to provide her with six months of free weekly counselling sessions.

Co-host Dr Jennifer Ashton, who is an obstetrics and gynecology specialist, said: ‘Birth control pills, while they are the same hormones that your body makes, in my opinion medically, they are not one size fits all and they do need to be individualized.

‘It may just be the matter of finding one that’s right for you, or it may be that you need to consider another form of contraception.’

Jenelle explained that she’s not ready to have another child.

She said she hopes to buy a new house first – and would be willing to become a mother again in a year or two.

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