(CNN) Art Alexakis, frontman for the rock band Everclear, has revealed he's been living with multiple sclerosis.

In a note posted on the band's official site, Alexakis said he was in a bad car accident three years ago that totaled his car.

"About two weeks later, I started feeling a tingle and numbness in my arm, thinking it was a pinched nerve in my neck, I went to the doctor and underwent an MRI," he wrote. "The report showed that I did indeed have a pinched nerve, but the pathologist also saw lacerations and suspicious marks on my spinal cord as well...scary, to say the least."

Alexakis said he "was sent to see a neurologist, who did a ridiculous number of tests - more MRI's, a spinal tap, over fifty blood tests, and numerous cognitive and balance tests."

"After receiving the results, he told me that I have a form of Multiple Sclerosis (RRMS), and that I have had it for anywhere between 10 to 20 years," he said. "I went and sat in my car and called my wife, and cried for about half an hour. I'm sure people in the parking lot thought I was losing it, and I guess I kind of was."

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