‘Star Wars’ actor Daisy Ridley reveals Graves’ disease diagnosis

“Star Wars” actor Daisy Ridley revealed in a brand new interview that she has been identified with Graves’ illness.

Ridley, 32, advised Girls’s Well being journal in an interview printed Tuesday that she was identified in September after she skilled bouts of sizzling flashes and fatigue. 

She stated she began to really feel sick after she filmed the thriller “Magpie,” by which she performs Anette, a stay-at-home mom whose husband falls in love with a well-known actress.

“I believed, ‘Effectively, I’ve simply performed a very traumatic function; presumably that’s why I really feel poorly,'” she advised the journal.

An endocrinologist defined that her signs, which included weight reduction, hand tremors, fatigue and a racing coronary heart, have been indicators of the autoimmune illness.

Graves’ illness impacts the thyroid gland and causes hyperthyroidism, which is when the physique produces an excessive amount of thyroid hormone, based on the Mayo Clinic. Anybody can get the illness, nevertheless it impacts primarily ladies and other people over 30.

Different celebrities identified with the illness embody Wendy Williams and Missy Elliott.

Ridley, who has opened up prior to now about her battle with endometriosis, stated her Graves’ illness prognosis made her unhappy at first but additionally pushed her to develop a stricter food regimen and take heed to her physique. She has been vegan for years, and she or he stopped consuming gluten after her prognosis.

“I’m not tremendous strict about it, however usually slicing down on gluten makes me really feel higher,” she stated.

Therapy for the illness contains radioactive iodine remedy, by which the affected person takes radioactive iodine by mouth to destroy the cells that make thyroid hormones, based on the Mayo Clinic. Medicines that block the thyroid from utilizing iodine to make hormones and beta blockers, which block the impact of hormones on the physique, are additionally different therapy choices.

Decreasing stress and creating a wholesome life-style, together with train and a well-balanced food regimen, can ease signs as a affected person undergoes therapy, the clinic stated.

Ridley stated she has all the time been “well being aware, and now I’m attempting to be extra well-being aware.” She stated that she’s intentional about getting relaxation when her physique is drained and that she has began doing cryotherapy and acupuncture and going to infrared saunas.

“I do a good quantity of the holistic stuff, however I additionally perceive that it’s a privilege to have the ability to do these issues,” she advised the journal.