- Hardcover: 340 pages
- Publisher: M.Evans & Company; 2 edition (Dec 5 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0871319144
- ISBN-13: 978-0871319142
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 16.1 x 4.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
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#291,026 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #79 in Books > Health, Mind & Body > Personal Health > Women's Health > Menopause
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Product Description
From Library Journal
Vliet, the founder and medical director of a women's health care center, believes that hormones play a significant role in women's health, especially in the perimenopausal and menopausal years. Varying levels of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone can be linked to depression, chronic fatigue, migraines, fibromylagia, bladder problems, heart disease, and cancer. Vliet convincingly defends hormone replacement therapy, although controversial, as a corrective and preventive treatment, providing it is individualized and integrated with alternative therapies. It is unfortunate that Vliet's book is aimed at health care professionals and informed lay readers, because the medical jargon can be arduous for general readers, yet its detailed information could help women make informed decisions. A broad overview can be found in Susan M. Lark's The Estrogen Decision: A Self-Help Program (National Nursing Consortium, 1994). Highly recommended for medical collections. (Index and illustrations not seen.)?Lisa A. Errico-Cox, Nassau Community Coll., Garden City, N.Y.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
Book Description
In this book, Dr. Vliet continues her crusade to debunk myths and misinformation on women's health.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
I wish I had never heard of this book,
By A Customer
This review is from: Screaming to be Heard, Revised and Updated: Hormonal Connections Women Suspect, and Doctors Ignore (Hardcover)
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.
5.0 out of 5 stars
She's a new person!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Screaming to be Heard, Revised and Updated: Hormonal Connections Women Suspect, and Doctors Ignore (Hardcover)
When we told friends about our teenage daughter's poor health, they recommended we read "Screaming to be Heard". We bought the book the next day and within a week had scheduled an appointment with Dr. Vliet. We credit Dr. Vliet with turning our daughter's health, and her life, around. She's a new person! We highly recommend this book.
3.0 out of 5 stars
only a starting point,
By A Customer
This review is from: Screaming to be Heard, Revised and Updated: Hormonal Connections Women Suspect, and Doctors Ignore (Hardcover)
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.
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