Queen guitarist Brian May is opening up about a recent Health scare on Wednesday sept 4 May 77 revealed he'd suffered a minor stroke around a week ago while speaking about his new documentary Brian May the Badgers the farmers and me in a video posted to YouTube and Instagram good news is that I can play guitar after the events of the last few days and I say this because it was in some doubt because that little Health hiccup that I mentioned happened about a week ago it was a minor stroke and all of a sudden out of the blue I didn't have any control over this arm so it was a little scary the musician recalled I have to say I had the most fantastic care and attention from firley hospital where I went blue lights flashing the very exciting he jokingly added referencing his ambulance ride to the hospital in Sur England where he'd been treated May insisted he didn't want to say anything at the time because he doesn't want sympathy please don't do that cuz it'll clutter up my inbox and I hate that The Show Must Go On hitmaker added telling fans that the good news is that he's okay sharing an update on his recovery May said he's just doing what I'm told which is basically nothing I'm grounded I'm not allowed to go out well I'm not allowed to drive not allowed to get on a plane not allowed to raise the heart rate too high not allowed to have planes flying over which will stress me but I'm good he explained as a plane flew over his his head May has suffered several Health scares in the past including recovering from a heart attack in May 2020 which came after he tore his gluteus maximus muscles while gardening as he previously revealed in an Instagram video I could not believe the pain the songwriter said at the time eventually I had another MRI but this time I had one of the lower spine and sure enough I had a compressed sciatic nerve quite severely compressed and that's why I had this feeling that someone was putting a screwdriver in my back he revealed that he had a small heart attack amid the process of treating the pain in his backside despite considering himself healthy it's not something that did me any harm it was about 40 minutes of pain in the chest and tightness and that feeling in the arms and sweating he explained the worst thing that happened was a stomach Hemorrhage and I lost an awful lot of blood I was wiped out couldn't get across the floor he said