“The Boys” star Erin Moriarty took to Instagram on Friday to share that she was diagnosed with Graves’ disease in May.
“Autoimmune disease manifests differently in everybody/every body,” she wrote. “Your experience will be different from mine. My experience will be different from yours. Perhaps greatly, perhaps minutely.”
She continued, “One thing I can say: if I hadn’t chalked it all up to stress and fatigue, I would’ve caught this sooner. A month ago, I was diagnosed with Graves’ disease.”
According to the Mayo Clinic, “Graves’ disease is an immune system condition that affects the thyroid gland. It causes the body to make too much thyroid hormone.” Symptoms include tremors, sensitivity to heat, weight loss, skin discoloration, irregular heartbeat and fatigue.
Moriarty went on to say that “within 24 hours” of starting treatment, she felt “the light coming back on” and has only been getting better.
“It’s been increasing in strength ever since,” Moriarty added. “If yours is dimming, even slightly, go get checked. Don’t ‘suck it up’ and transcend suffering; you deserve to be comfy. Shit’s hard enough as is.”
In the post, she included text messages to her parents in which she was presumably in the throes of her diagnosis. In one to her mother, she wrote, “I’m serious; I really really need relief. I feel nauseated tonight. I feel so shit and removed from who I am, I can’t live like this forever.”
In another to her father, seemly sent after she received care, she wrote, “I already feel a world of difference, primary thought (as of now): ‘damn, this is how I’m supposed to feel? I’ve been missing out!’”
Moriarty has appeared in all five seasons of “The Boys” as Annie January, aka Starlight, a light-powered superheroine and a member of Billy Butcher’s titular corruption-fighting supergroup.
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