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BKFC champ details COVID-19 complications from hospital bed: I went five years without getting sick

BKFC champion and MMA veteran Luis Palomino is currently dealing with serious health issues stemming from a particularly tough battle with COVID-19.

The WSOF and Bellator veteran is currently hospitalized, and he detailed the complications he had two weeks after contracting the virus.

“12 days no food, sips of water, massive headaches, body aches, fevers from day one still going today, shiver attacks, no sleeps longer than 2/3 hours, inflammation of the pancreas, diarrhea pure water just started to calm down with medication,” he wrote on Instagram.

“Diabetes just popped up from all the steroids (they’re) pumping me with and took my first ever insulin shots.