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| View Larger Image | Stop the Thyroid Madness: A Patient Revolution Against Decades of Inferior Treatment | Paperbackby Janie A. Bowthorpe (Author)
| List Price: | $19.95 | | Price: | $17.95 | | You Save: | $2.00 (10%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Grape Publishing | | Page Count: | 296 Pages | | Publication Date: | April 04, 2008 | | Sales Rank: | 5,331th |
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 59 reviews)
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Reviewers Only Disagree with Critics of this Book by Internet Safe  5 Stars
November 05, 2009
I notice when people praise this book, there are very few comments, except to agree. Whenever someone criticizes this book, there are plenty of people who disagree. I think that says a lot. Also, there is one woman who says Ms. Bowethorpe taught too many aerobic classes in a day. This is incorrect. Ms Bowethorpe taught 5 in a WEEK. Big difference. Also, I read the whole book and she never told us to change our medication without doctors advice.
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Most amazing book- and I have read them all.... by Gym Girl (Massachusetts) 5 Stars
October 24, 2009
This book will change your life- forever. Whether you have been diagnosed with a thyroid issue or you SUSPECT something is just not right. Get this book and start advocating for your own health. Research, investigate and spend the time. It will be well worth it.
The only "bad" part about this book...sometimes you will feel like crying because you will feel like a lot of your life has passed you by, while you have been "suffering".
Get this book- share it with your friends- ADVOCATE like hell for yourself.
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Simply the BEST book I found for my thyroid problems because I WASN'T being helped by my (then) endocrinologist. by Janet L. Wilson (Ramsey, NJ United States) 5 Stars
October 11, 2009
It's VERY obvious that the people who have rated this book as 1-3 have NOT (1) experienced the problems of following an endocrinologist who INSISTS on ONLY testing TSH and never ONCE offers the option of natural desiccated thyroid and (2) experienced the HORRIBLE, debilitating symptoms that I did while on crappy, synthetic hormones for TWENTY years.
For me, this book was my salvation. I'm scared to think where I would be now had it not been for finding Ms. Bowthorpe's website and book 2.5 years ago. I simply wasn't able to function like a human being prior to educating myself on the realities of living with a thyroid condition and how to properly test and treat one.
STTM is NOT meant to replace a doctor's advice and that is made VERY clear in both the book AND on the website. The key is to find a doctor who is willing to (1) use the PROPER blood tests with which to measure thyroid and (2) (probably more importantly) one who will LISTEN to you AND your symptoms and treat you according to both. For 20 years, I had doctors who did NEITHER and it left me will a myriad of symptoms KNOWING something was wrong with me, but repeatedly being told by endocrinologists, gynecologists, and general practioners that "everything is normal". Horrible experience.
Not one of my doctors in 20 years told me that there was an option of natural thyroid rather than synthetic thyroid. NOT ONE. Being on Armour natural desiccated thyroid and being raised to a level 3 x's the dosage I was taking of synthetic while paying attention to both lab work and symptoms allowed me to alleviate almost all of my symptoms. We're still working on some. But, we'll get there. Now that I have a doctor who LISTENS and prescribes medicine that WORKS for me.
DON'T listen to the naysayers here. They haven't lived it. If you wish to read my whole story, you can read my Google document here [...]
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severly disapointed by Sally Rose Tower  1 Stars
October 09, 2009
I have addisons and I'm hypothyroidic, I have to take much higher amounts of cortef just to function (95mg - 125mg a day in divided doses 5 times a day) just to function. I have to stress dose on a regular basis where I add 5 mg every 1/2 hour to stop me from stuttering and shaking and bobbing my head. I've tried the dessicated thyroid for over a year and adjusted it several times with the doctors support and it didn't work for me. When I read that switching to sythetic where you can taylor the T-4 and T-3 to what works for you because some people will need more T-3 than others made sense. I am currently taking 400mcg of T-4 and 100 mcg of T-3 which seems to work alot better that the dessicated. I still struggle with fatigue but it's manageble instead of me shuffling along like a senior citizen where it felt like like someone was squeezzing my lungs like I'd just run a marathon and I had flu like syptoms all the time on the dessicated. I felt that the author was so focused on the desicatted tyhyroid and repeatedly mentioned that it was better that being on T-4 alone is like comparing apples to oranges. Of course you don't just go on T-4 alone, you add the T-3 as well, but you have to be intune enough to your body to be able to tell what works and what doesn't and it takes time to figure that out. The author kept going back to repeating how superior being on dessicated was that it was like she was obsessed. I was hoping that the book would provide more info, and felt that the info was severly lacking. If I could get my money back for purchasing the book I would. She did not talk about what else could be causing fatigue, like lack of HGH or hormone issues or food sensitivities or how to tailor the T-3 and T-4 to what works for you, just that synthetic is bad and desicatted is good. It's like there's a cult out there that only believes that being on desicatted is the way to go and that leaves alot of people out there with out much help.
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Information that is hard to find elsewhere by MaggieToo9 (Hendersonville, NC USA) 5 Stars
September 07, 2009
I truly appreciate this book and the doctor recommendations on the website. I was going to an endocrinologist recommended in my area, but I found a local GP who is wonderful.
The test border numbers for blood pressures, diabetes, and cholesterol have been consistently moved downward to catch these diseases earlier, but this has never been done with the numbers for thyroid conditions - and untreated hypothyroid can cause extensive organ damage, including to the heart as well as midline obesity and all the myriad problem THAT brings with it, including early death.
I have been fed up over the years with doctors who have had the "healer" squeezed right out of them in their pharmaceutically-financed educations. My doctor, who actually listens and thinks, rather than just looking up numbers in a list or book, prescribed Armour for me based on SYMPTOMS (what a novel idea! - if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck - it might just be a duck!). He even commented that many doctors treat by test numbers instead of symptoms, and that people are not all the same and that symptoms and quality of life matter (how did I get so lucky?).
I avoid medications as much as possible, and take VERY few for my age (68). I believe whole-heartedly in wholistic approaches and taking synthetic T4 only, or separately adding synthetic T3 only, rather than taking a natural dessicated thyroid containing naturally balanced components that you don't get with the synthetics. There is a synergy in everything we consume - calcium doesn't absorb properly without magnesium, for example. All the thyroid components interact together to function properly, which is no doubt why ALL symptoms are not addressed with synthetics, but are addressed with dessicated thyroid. I started on Armour about 4 weeks ago, but I started very slow, 1/4 grain for 2 weeks, than 1/2, now 3/4, which is still very low, but already I'm feeling better. Some symptoms have improved: I can concentrate better, I don't feel as extremely fatigued or so apathetic - I have actually started going to an exercise program "Silver Sneakers" for retirees.
It breaks my heart to think I could have been here 15 years ago (and been spared the years of suffering and physical damage) if I had had a decent doctor, or the information provided in this book. This author has done much more research on these issues than most doctors are willing to do and also speaks from years of experience. I've read comments (from defensive medical people) that say the author's advice is "dangerous" (treating oneself when the medical community fails one), but I couldn't disagree more (and my doctor also), because going to lazy doctors and leaving hypothyroid UN-treated for 15 years is FAR more dangerous to your health and life than taking matters into your own hands after researching and informing yourself. Of course, finding a supportive doctor is the best alternative, but leaving hypothyroid UN-treated is the worst alternative for your health and life.
I would recommend beginning VERY slowly, as this avoids any heart palpitations as your body adjusts. I know they go away, but I prefer to allow my body to adjust very slowly, so they don't happen at all. I am so grateful for this book. The medical community often treats the rest of us as though we were imbeciles and should regard them as final authorities. I just cannot do that, I have to understand what is going on before I can acquiesce to a treatment. I skipped the last 3 years of high school, and began at USC when I was 14 years old, and graduated with honors in computer science. I actually retired early because I was so fatigued and my concentration was flagging. If I had had a REAL healer doctor, I would have worked years longer and might yet be working. My previous doctors (except one in Atlanta, 20 years ago) have been less intelligent than I am and too arrogant to listen to a patient's research or opinions. My current doctor answers all my questions, listens to me, and freely shares his knowledge, as well as respects mine. If he doesn't know something, he isn't afraid to say so and then finds the information. I trust and respect him and I am grateful to have been given the courage to search until I found him. I have a flyer from AARP that says to be "an old cuss" patient and insist on the care you deserve. But I haven't had to do that. In fact, I feel so much better going into his office with his great staff, that my blood pressure has dropped from 180/90 to 124/71. I think my BP measured high because I was so frustrated and angry every time I went into my prior doctors' offices, with their "officious" staff and arrogant attitudes.
I am grateful for this book - it has helped me make my life worth living again. Thank you.
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