Bret Michaels has detailed the thorns poking out of his rosy career.
In a June 2025 Instagram post, the Poison frontman explained how living with type 1 diabetes might impact his tour schedule after a health scare.
“Unfortunately, the highs and lows of living with diabetes since I’ve been six years old occasionally just kick my butt,” Michaels wrote. “Last night, I went on stage and even added a song or two to the set to prove to myself & the fans that I could do it. At the end, my blood sugar walking off the stage was a real-life 39.”
Per the CDC, 70 mg / dL is considered low blood sugar for people with T1D—and severe low blood sugar begins at 54 mg / dL.
“I vow in the near future, I’m going to take that time needed,” he told fans. “And please forgive me if I have to move some of the shows around until I get this under control.
That’s not to say, Michaels hasn’t taken plenty of precautions along his decades-spanning career.
“I wake up and the first thing I do is check my constant glucose monitor,” Michaels told People in 2024. “I take an injection and then the next thing I do is I get up and—good, bad or indifferent, no matter how I’m feeling—I get into a workout routine, and it helps to level the blood sugar out.”
He added, “And then I jump into the fun and the business of the day, and just try to take every day like that.”
