A Report on Graves' Disease Treatment
Note: This book is now out of print, but you can likely find it at online used book stores such as abebooks.com
 by Kate Flax
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One: Something is Wrong With This Body, Your Symptoms.
Chapter Two: Professional Help.
Chapter Three: Self-Responsibility, Educate Yourself, Share Your Concerns, Join or Form a Support Group, On-Line Support Groups, In-Person Support Groups, Other Emotional Support, Lifestyle, Diet, Exercise, Chemical Imbalances, The Scientific View, Our Families Live With Graves' Disease Too.
Chapter Four: Caregivers and Illness In Our Culture Today, What Is A Modern Physician, Illness and Belief Systems, A New Medical Paradigm, Doctor/Patient Relations.
Chapter Five: In Addition to Doctors, Mind/Body Awareness.
Chapter Six: A Sense of Perspective, A Little History, A Little Politics, The Case of George and Barbara Bush and their dog Millie, Graves' Disease and it's Causes, Graves' Disease and the Rest of the World and BRT therapy.
Chapter Seven: What is Graves' Disease?, What is Autoimmune Disease and What is Stress?, Who gets Graves' Disease?, Women and Graves' Disease, Thyroid Hormone and Estrogen, Thyroid Disease, Hormone Replacement Therapy and Phytoestrogens, Graves' Disease and its Causes, Graves' Disease and Genetics and Children, Graves' Disease and the Environment, Thyroid Hormone and Other Medications, Case Histories
Chapter Eight: Thyroid Eye Disease (TED) – What is it?, Pretibial Myxedmia, Thyroid Acropachy, Symptoms, Ophthalmologists, When Will You Get TED?, RAI, Prednisone, and Your Eyes, Graves' Disease and Your Eyes, What is Actually Happening When You Have TED, The "Hot" Phase, Treatment and Tips, The "Cold" or "Burnout" Phase, Graves Disease and Disability, Case History, Some Eye Advice
Chapter Nine:
Treatment Options, You have Graves' Disease and now Treatment Options, Antithyroid drugs (ATD's) and Graves' Disease, RAI, Thyroid Hormone Options, RAI (continued), Surgery, In Sum.
The Laboratories:
Thyroid Function Testing
Interpreting Thyroid Function Testing.
Chapter Ten: My Story
Chapter Eleven: Complementary Treatment: A Summary
Appendix: Graves Disease Questionnaire, Symptoms, Self-Help Clearing Houses, National Graves' Disease Foundation Bulletins
Recommended Reading List:
Thyroid Related Books
Additional Recommended
Reading
Information Directory
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgements
Disclaimer
This book is to educate, not prescribe. If you are ill, see a physician. The author and Sally Breer Publishing do not have liability or responsibility to any person or entity with regard to loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused, directly or indirectly, by the information within this book. If you do not wish to be bound by the above, please return the book to the publisher for a full refund.
For all those who have the courage to heal themselves, to those demons that make us stretch, and to life with all its mystery.
Text copyright 2001 by Kate Flax. All rights reserved. No part of the book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author.
Names have been changed and composites have been created to protect people's privacy.
Second Printing 2001
Published by Sally Breer
PO Box 344
Sparkill, NY 10976
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