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Article: getting a fix on the thyroid
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 10, 1996
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Judy Foreman is a member of the Globe staff. Her E-mail address, via
Internet is:foreman(at sign)globe.com
Three years ago, Ruth Hertz, 66, a self-described "LOL" or little
old lady, began feeling lousy.
A normally avid tennis player, she found herself dragging around
the court. "The tiredness sort of seemed to come on suddenly," she
recalled last week.
In fact, Hertz, who lives in Framingham, was "more than tired. I
was lethargic. I was doing a lot of sleeping," she says, "and I was
beginning to be a little depressed."
She finally confided her growing list of symptoms to another woman
in her water aerobics class who immediately -- and correctly --
diagnosed her problem: an underactive ...