'E! News' ' Morgan Stewart Diagnosed with Thyroid Condition After Scary Symptoms: 'I Was Terrified'

E! News' Morgan Stewartis urging women to take care of their health after she tried to push through “overwhelming” symptoms that turned out to be a thyroid condition.

The co-host ofDaily Pop, whowelcomed her first child, daughter Row, with husband Jordan McGraw on Feb. 17, sharedon her Instagram Storyon Wednesday that she’s felt “completely off” for the last nine weeks.

“At first it was the little things I started to notice,” she said, explaining that her symptoms started with dizziness, exhaustion, sluggishness and joint pain. Stewart said she didn’t believe it was postpartum depression, “so I was able to push my symptoms aside. I just figured this was my new ‘normal’ and my new ‘groove’ with a newborn.”

But two weeks later, Stewart was at home when she “began to suddenly totally fade away from myself,” and felt dizzy, tingly and blurry, and went into a panic. “I felt like I had become very small in my own body and was no longer in control of it.”

Again, Stewart chalked her symptoms upto being postpartum, but they continued over the next few weeks. In late May, they became scarier when she started to experience them while she was driving.

“My entire right arm began to go numb and I once again felt myself fade away from myself, but way more intensely,” she said. “I was terrified … my arm was not functioning. It felt heavy to pick up, almost like it belonged to somebody else.”

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Stewart pulled over andcalled McGraw, who helped her get home and get some food, “but I became more and more incoherent,” she said. “I was no longer speaking proper English or able to communicate efficiently. I was just lost in panic and uncertainty.”

She then spoke with doctors who told her to rest and took her blood to run tests. The intense symptoms continued through the week and during a vacation to Napa Valley. When Stewart returned, her doctorconfirmed that she had a thyroid issue.

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Stewart urged her followers not to “wait as long as I did to get things checked out, especially if you’re a new mama.”

“We are so programmed to power through EVERY f—ing thing no matter how difficult it is or if we can even see or not (!!).”

source: people.com