What were Pivens symptoms?
Colker says Piven’s symptoms started with “extreme fatigue and exhaustion” that began around the time Speed-the-Plow started. Colker says Piven didn’t want to quit the show at that point, but his symptoms progressed to “profound neuromuscular weakness … dizziness and nausea,” says Colker. At that point, Colker hospitalized Piven for three days at an unnamed hospital and brought in a cardiologist and neurologist who agreed with Colker’s approach. Colker says the cardiologist checked on Piven’s heart rhythm, which is now normal, and recommended “enforced rest” for Piven “because he knows Jeremy would crawl back to that stage if he could,” Colker says. Piven is no longer in the hospital.
