Judge Judy Sheindlin says exhaustion sent her to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles Wednesday.

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The television jurist, 68, told TMZ she expects to go home Thursday after undergoing some tests.

"I'm just exhausted, and my body was telling me it needed a day to chill," she told the celebrity news Web site Wednesday.

"I was feeling funky this morning ... funky enough that I knew someone should give a gander over what I got," she added. "I'm really fine. I wanted to go back to work this afternoon. ... I'm exhausted. I'm just tired. A lot of things just zoned together, including the bad news of the world. At my age, I know my body. My body is fine."

Sheindlin has presided over a small-claims court on TV's "Judge Judy" since 1996.