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Summary: Dr. Vliet is a Godsend and a LIFESAVER!
Review: Screaming to Be Heard was literally a lifesaver for me. After spending five years searching for answers from many doctors and KNOWING it was a hormonal problem but not getting any of them to listen, this book saved my life! Because I was only in my 20s when my hormone problems began, I was not only told to see a psychiatrist but was also told I was too young. As a result of being ignored until I found this book, I was diagnosed at the age of 31 with Osteoporosis and fibromyalgia. Dr. Vliet knows that all patients are INDIVIDUALS and you don't have to be a certain age to have a certain condition. Thanks to Dr. Vliet and the right hormone replacement regimen, my osteoporosis is reversing and I am back to feeling like myself again. Remember ladies, you don't have to be 50 years or older to need hormone replacement OR to be at risk for osteoporosis. I recommend this book to EVERY woman and doctor. It could save your life or that of someone you love.
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Summary: I wish I had never heard of this book
Review: 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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Summary: I wish I had never heard of this book
Review: 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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Summary: Should be required reading for women and their doctors.
Review: This book could literally save your life. Elizabeth Vliet explains so much about how hormones affect every kind of health issue AND she gives the reader the necessary encouragement to be persistant and trust themselves in thier quest for good health. Women must be their own best advocates and Vliet helps you to learn to find a doctor who can be your partner.
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Summary: Screaming to Be Heard
Review: This book gave me back a life. One year of being told that I had a serious case of fibromyalgia and would feel better as I get used to living with the pain was not acceptable. The minute I read the book, I knew this was the answer and have been treated by Dr Vliet for hypothyroidism for 18 months and am now pain free and have full movement back. Contact Dr Vliet and accept no substitue for diagnosis.
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Summary: Dynamite!
Review: This book is dynamite! It is one every woman should read. Dr. Vliet outlines and addresses so many of the complaints most women have but the world ignores. This book contains all the information and ammunition necessary to take to our doctors to demand our problems be addressed and treated. Women no longer have to accept the oft repeated "It's all in your head" comment so many of us have heard all these years. Dr. Vliet not only helps us understand what ails us, and suggests alternatives, she tells us what to look for and what to ask the doctor when we visit. And, she shows us how to listen to our body and to learn that there are things we *can* do to get the help we need. As the title suggests, women are Screaming To Be Heard, and Dr. Vliet directs us in how to make ourselves heard--and not only that, to get the care and attention we need.
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Summary: easily the best book I've ever read on women's hormones
Review: This book is informative and fun to read-- I couldn't put it down! It has a really straight forward writing style.
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Summary: A good book on hormones for women
Review: This is an update of the 1st "Screaming..." book. The update is good even if you have the original one. I have both. A couple of COMPLAINTS: #1: Dr. Vliet really needs to improve the index in both books. Has she considered Microsoft Word? MS Word can create an index. The index stinks! I've ended up reading, and then adding / creating my own index. It is hard to find stuff in her book.
#2: For some reason, she doesn't like compounding pharmacies that will actually talk directly to patients about hormone protocols, etc. She seems to favor compounding pharmacies that leave every decision up to the doctor. This seems very limiting in that every woman should be as educated as possible, and have as much freedom as possible with deciding her own treatment. After all, how would we feel if someone told us that each week they'd be controlling and deciding on what we were going to buy at the grocery store?!? But, overall, since the issue of hormone replacement is a complicated one, this is CERTAINLY a book you need to have. I would highly recommend both "Screaming..." books. Also look at Gillian Ford's "Listening to Your Hormones". Great book, also!
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Summary: A good book on hormones for women
Review: This is an update of the 1st "Screaming..." book. The update is good even if you have the original one. I have both. A couple of COMPLAINTS: #1: Dr. Vliet really needs to improve the index in both books. Has she considered Microsoft Word? MS Word can create an index. The index stinks! I've ended up reading, and then adding / creating my own index. It is hard to find stuff in her book.
#2: For some reason, she doesn't like compounding pharmacies that will actually talk directly to patients about hormone protocols, etc. She seems to favor compounding pharmacies that leave every decision up to the doctor. This seems very limiting in that every woman should be as educated as possible, and have as much freedom as possible with deciding her own treatment. After all, how would we feel if someone told us that each week they'd be controlling and deciding on what we were going to buy at the grocery store?!? But, overall, since the issue of hormone replacement is a complicated one, this is CERTAINLY a book you need to have. I would highly recommend both "Screaming..." books. Also look at Gillian Ford's "Listening to Your Hormones". Great book, also!
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Summary: Must read for every woman & physician that treats women
Review: This is the first book that cuts through previous medical dogma by first believing there is a real physical cause to the emotional effects on women patients and that they are measurable and worth testing, extrapolating and curing. Vliet uses available medical tools to measure the hormonal physical causes of the symptoms. A lot of other books sound promising but they turn out to take a symplistic, ah-ha! THIS is it! type of approach. This book actually has sound insight on many different possibilities and methods for doctors & patients to work together. Clearly the doctor is impassioned about the importance of education on womens health and appalled at how long it has gone ignored/undervalued by the medical professions, which some might be put off by. Most physicians, just throw up their hands saying "hormones change through the day through the month and their costly. We like to practice responsible medicine." (parroting insurance companies) Putting a price on the wellbeing of our mothers. Cholesterol does too yet this is tracked routinely...these are the types of points Vliet makes too. However if you don't let that bias you, you will see that the doctors methods are sound. This book has been recommended by Harvard as well. Many patients that are being treated for depression may find they benefit from making sure they are first hormonally balanced particulary if they are not responding to psychiatric meds satisfactorily.
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