Monday, October 07, 2013

Baywatch actress Gena Lee Nolin tells how her diagnosis took ten years: I battled thyroid illness in a Baywatch bathing suit | Mail Online - Sharon Churcher - As the symptoms of Hashimoto’s disease are similar to other common ailments, it is often misdiagnosed. Having suffered for years without treatment, Gena Lee, who was 23 when she was cast as Baywatch lifeguard Neely Capshaw, is campaigning for routine thyroid testing. ‘I now believe my thyroid began to malfunction when I was 18,’ she says. ‘That was when the fatigue started, as well as the depression, some hair loss and mood swings. I would get a puffy face, puffy eyes.


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