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Title: Screaming to be Heard: Hormonal Connections Women Suspect, and Doctors Still Ignore by Elizabeth Lee Vliet MD, Elizabeth Vliet ISBN: 0-87131-914-4 Publisher: M Evans & Co Pub. Date: 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 (37 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Women interested in the health of their mind&body must read
Comment: "Screaming to be Heard" is a most appropriate title for a book about women's health issues. It's a shame we must in fact "scream" in order for our questions to be answered. I recommend this book to every woman, regardless of age, and to all men who are interested in the health and well being of women. My biggest question about Dr. Vliets' research and findings in her private practice is why can't she get a group of researchers to prove her theories? She speaks frequently about other studies and indicates that none have been prepared in areas she thinks important. Why can't she get someone to do those kinds of studies? For balance, I'd also like to hear about some of her diagnostic failures. And lastly, while I understand cardiovascular disease is the number 1 killer of women, I was a bit taken back by her downplay of the importance of breast cancer, yet she devoted quite a bit of page space to a cancer that only effects 1% of the female population.
Rating: 3
Summary: only a starting point
Comment: I read this book more than once, as well as Women, Weight, and Hormones, had a consult with dr Vliet and must say this book is a well researched starting point but that since then I have found other books more helpful. I suggest the excellent book by Uzzi Reiss MD, Natural Hormone Balance for concrete suggestions that addressed some problems I developed during NHRT treatment, Dr John Lee What your doctor may not tell you about menopause, and Alan Gaby's book on osteoporosis. It is my experience that without a well thought out plan of attack and a doctor who really listens, you end up in side effect city. Thanks to Dr Reiss I now am able to implement something that really works in balance with my body.
Rating: 1
Summary: I wish I had never heard of this book
Comment: The author of this book recommends transdermal estradiol (estrogen) patches as a relatively "natural" therapy for various problems, including the treatment of hormonally-driven migraine headaches. Inspired by her recommendation, I asked my gynecologist for a prescription. When I started on it, I had just had a check-up and was told then that my uterus was normal. After a year and a half using the patches, I was told my uterus had grown to the size it would be if I were 3 to 4 months pregnant, all stretched out with three large fibroid tumors! My gynecologist recommended surgery.
Aside from the headaches, I had been perfectly healthy before taking the transdermal estradiol. My gynecologist told me this is something estrogen does -- makes the uterus and fibroids grow (not that he said one word about this when he wrote out the prescription!)
If there was a warning about this in "Screaming to be Heard," I sure didn't see it. I have read on the web that this particular form of estrogen is the most potent at making fibroids grow. (Do a search for "Fibroids and Estrogen Therapy" and you can read the same article by Dr. Frederick R. Jelovsek which I read.) I wish I had never seen this book. Not only did the estradiol patches cause fibroids tumors to grow, but it only took the edge off my headaches -- not nearly as much help as I later found in another book I bought at Amazon called "Heal Your Headache" by David Buchholz. I would have been much better off if I had skipped reading "Screaming to be Heard" and kept looking elsewhere for better recommendations.
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Title: Women, Weight and Hormones by Elizabeth Lee Vliet MD ISBN: 0871319322 Publisher: M Evans & Co Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: It's My Ovaries, Stupid! by Elizabeth Lee Vliet ISBN: 0743210565 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM): Premenopause : Balance Your Hormones and Your Life from Thirty to Fifty by John Lee, Jesse Hanley, Virginia Hopkins ISBN: 0446673803 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Natural Hormone Balance for Women : Look Younger, Feel Stronger, and Live Life with Exuberance by Uzzi Reiss ISBN: 0743406664 Publisher: Atria Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st-Century Stress Syndrome by James L. Wilson ISBN: 1890572152 Publisher: Smart Publications Pub. Date: 09 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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