Screaming To Be Heard
(Elizabeth Lee Vliet)
This book could change your life. Millions of women have undiagnosed hormone problems because their tests come back within the ônormal rangeö. These problems include PMS, memory loss, menopause, fertility, fibromyalgia, interstitial cystitis, chronic fatigue, depression, migraines, cravings, sleep difficulties, chronic allergies and more. Too often these health problems are dismissed as emotional or psychiatric problems and often the recommendation of doctors, rather than medical help, is to seek out a therapist. Dr. Vliet breaks all the rules of the typical doctor. She sees her patients as individuals, not as a list of symptoms, and she treats them accordingly. I donÆt know a single woman who hasnÆt been disappointed by her doctorÆs lack of interest in her total well-being. When we know that something ôjust isnÆt rightö or that we arenÆt feeling ôlike ourselvesö our doctors often chalk it up to stress or dissatisfaction with life, when, in fact, there are real and medical issues that need to be dealt with. As Dr. Vliet said, "The problem I have found is that too often women are told their thyroid is normal without having the complete thyroid tests done. Of course, what most people, and many physicians, don''t realize is that...a ''normal range'' on a laboratory report is just that: a range. A given person may require higher or lower levels to feel well and to function optimally. I think we must look at the lab results along with the clinical picture described by the patient...I have a series of more than a hundred patients, all but two are women, who had a normal TSH and turned out to have significantly elevated thyroid antibodies that meant they needed thyroid medication in order to feel normal. This type of oversight is particularly common with a type of thyroid disease called thyroiditis, which is about 25 times more common in females than males...a woman may experience the symptoms of disease months to years before TSH goes up..." I recommend this book to EVERY WOMAN.
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