Whether you're a newly diagnosed patient, or are a friend or relative of someone suffering from Endometriosis, this book offers help.
From not wearing a corsage to never missing another eclipse, a hundred witty, irreverent resolutions are designed for women over fifty who are determined to enjoy their hard-won freedom from silly conventions.
The 4th edition of A Dietitian's Cancer Story's forty pages are crammed with informative and useful recommendations for developing a healthy diet that can also reduce the risk of cancer. This is an ideal book for anybody wanting to start "eating right", but who has no idea where to begin.
Written in Q&A Format, A Gynecologist's Second Opinion answers all the questions that patients actually have but that most doctors often don't have the time or the patience to answer. It addresses women's concerns while providing the facts needed to get appropriate care.
As women quickly discover, their life when treatment ends is very different from what it was before their diagnosis. Often exhausted, anxious, and emotionally volatile, they are beset by physical discomforts, fearful of intimacy, afraid for their children, worried about recurrence. Anticipating a return to normalcy, they discover that the old version of normal no longer applies.
In our ability to rethink our lives lies our greatest power to change them. What we have called middle age need not be seen as a turning point toward death. It can be viewed as a magical turning point toward life as weve never known it, if we allow ourselves the power of an independent imaginationthought-forms that dont flow in a perfunctory manner from ancient assumptions merely handed down to us, but rather flower into new archetypal images of a humanity just getting started at 45 or 50.
A holistic perspective of Interstitial Cystitis with information on various alternative treatments, herbs, and natural products in relation to healing from IC.
Since 2000 America's Top Doctors has been the premier source for identifying the nation's top doctors. Physicians profiled in this guide represent the top 1% of medical specialists in America and practice in 64 specialties and subspecialties. This guide: Contains essential information on more than 5,000 of the nation's top medical specialists including Board certification, subspecialty, faculty and hospital appointments and special expertise.
At first blush, a lighthearted romp through the horrors of chemotherapy seems like a stretch. Yet that is just what Rodgers has attempted with considerable success in this memoir of her bout with cancer.
Paperback edition of the award-winning and ground breaking literary anthology on the issue of childlessness. "This compelling collection of short stories, essays, excerpts, and poetry ...explores the lives, the fears, and the dreams of childless women.
It took surgery for former newspaper reporter, Patti Pfeiffer, to turn author. It was during her own recovery from a hysterectomy that she wrote this enlightening and entertaining book detailing her experiences with endometriosis, laser surgery, laparoscopy, vaginal hysterectomy, surgical menopause, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and gynecologists.
As if we need any new reasons to eat chocolate. We all know chocolate is the fifth food group....." - Hyster Sisters
"A woman is not a woman without her passion..."
Revised and expanded, this edition offers the latest findings on chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and overlapping diseases such as Gulf War Syndrome. It includes new information on the interaction of the brain, emotions, and immune system as well.
Doctors traditionally prescribe a pill for every ill. But for most people, these single solutions don't work. The truth is, most chronic health problems, including stubbor weight gain, unbeatable fatigue, intestinal distress, high blood pressure, creeping cholestgerol, and high blood sugar, are not found in simply one organ, but in several parts of the body (oftentimes in twos and threes).
Janet and Greta Podleski, also known as The Looneyspoons Sisters, are the high-energy authors of the low-fat cookbook Looneyspoons and its follow-up, Crazy Plates. But to call these sisters cookbook authors may be a misnomer: they're more like a wacky comedy team touring Hoboken doing the low-fat-zealot routine for admiring audiences.
For nearly a decade, millions of women have turned to Dr. John Lees classic bestsellers for groundbreaking advice treating hormone imbalances from PMS to menopause and beyond.
In an empowering and demystifying book about menopause, Dr. Susan Love, a noted breast surgeon and women's health advocate, tells it straight about hormones. "Hormone therapy is neither a fountain of youth nor an 'evil empire,'" Love writes with her coauthor, Karen Lindsey.
This could be as close to a fountain of youth as mankind will ever come, the truly scientific answer to how to reverse or prevent the debilitating effects of aging, including memory loss, weight gain, sexual dysfunction, and Alzheimers.
Endometriosis is a serious disease associated with pain, immune dysfunction, infertility, cancer, and autoimmune diseases that can be managed only through active, informed decision making. Developed by the Endometriosis Association, Endometriosis provides new information on treatments and lifestyle changes that gives women with endometriosis and their families the tools they need to successfully manage the disease.
Endometriosis is a common medical condition in which the tissue lining the uterus is found outside of the uterus. Painful menstruation and infertility are two of the numerous symptoms, and it can take up to eight years to diagnose. This groundbreaking book offers practical, easy-to-implement ways to alleviate symptoms and improve overall health and well-being. It explores the environmental toxins, cosmetics, dietary habits, and other lifestyle issues that may be partially to blame for the condition.
The Endometriosis Sourcebook is the definitive resource for the millions of sufferers urgently seeking up-to-date, authoritative information. It covers everything women need to know, including the latest research, treatments, nutrition and advice.
...offering safe and practical nutritional and healthcare advice...gives a detailed, insightful look at endometriosis ...shows how the right diet can provide the key to optimum health in overcoming endometriosis.
In a clear, conversational language, Dr. Lauren Streicher discusses everything a woman needs to know to make informed choices about this often-controversial subject, including: emotions and sex after surgery, hormone replacement and much more.
Practically every question a woman ever wanted to ask about estrogen is answered in this book: "Do I really need to replace the estrogen that I lose after menopause?" "Does estrogen cause cancer?"
Women with endometriosis and the health professionals who treat them will benefit from the latest information about the possible causes, diagnosis, surgeries, and current treatment options for endometriosis.
When Johanna Skilling was diagnosed with fibroid tumors, she was confused by treatment recommendations that ranged from "watch and wait" to total hysterectomy. Even more frustrated by the lack of data about fibroids, she set out to close the information gap.
Although Jennifer Berman, M.D., and Laura Berman, Ph.D., readily agree that "the most important sex organ in the human body is the brain," the last thing they want anyone to believe is that all female sexual problems are mental--quite the contrary.
"The best prescription ever....."
The first book on ovarian cancer for the general reader, this is a comprehensive, compassionate look at a disease millions of people first became aware of with the tragic death of comedienne Gilda Radner in 1989. Dr. Piver, a leading cancer surgeon, discusses the causes of ovarian cancer, preventative measures, classic signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests and genetic screening, the different types of ovarian cancer, the four stages in the disease's progression, and the most effective treatments.
There is a subtle, but very real, connection between the mind, body and spirit that can be released and accessed through the way we eat.
For those recovering from the death of a loved one, here is a collection of daily affirmations and meditations to ease the grieving process and pave the way for healing to begin.
In 1980, Swaney, then in her mid-forties, had a complete hysterectomy for which, apparently, her doctor gave her no reason and saw no need for subsequent estrogen replacement. The operation and immediate convalescence went well, but then her health began a seven-year decline.
It was to be a year of firsts: her first foods, her first tooth, her first words, her first steps, her first Christmas, her first birthday. Yet not one of these important milestones would be reached as the world of one mother would suddenly change forever when this beautiful gift from heaven had to be returned just 87 days after her arrival
Dr. Rako broke new ground with this book in 1996 by informing women (and their DRs) about the role of testosterone in a woman's physical and sexual well being. It was revised, updated and released in paperback in 1999.
A hormone specialist with more than 20 years of experience, Erika Schwartz subscribed to conventional methods of treating menopausal women-until she became one. When she realized that available treatment options were ineffective for her-and for millions of women-she started looking for an alternative.
One of the most directly helpful books on the subject of loss ever written, the first edition of this comforting and inspiring book, published in 1976, sold nearly two million copies.
The authors' three-part strategy tailors the benefits of hormone replacement therapy to individual needs and includes a saliva test to determine which hormones a woman needs; supplementation with natural, bio-identical hormones in custom doses; and monitoring of hormone levels and bone metabolism.
"Must reading for all women advised to have a hysterectomy and all women who have had one..
Hysterectomy is the second most common major surgical procedure performed on women in the United States. Because of new nonsurgical treatments and the rising opposition to the procedure from women's and patients' groups, hysterectomies are performed less frequently than in the past, but many disorders of the uterusfibroid tumors, uterine and cervical cancer, pelvic inflammatory disease, endometriosis, adenomyosis, and uterine prolapsestill may require surgical treatment.
This powerful, insightful book offers in-depth information about the benefits and risks of hysterectomies through the personal accounts of women who have undergone the procedure. Every year, one million women face the decision of whether to have a hysterectomy.
Who is that woman staring back at you from the mirror? What woman hasn't looked in the mirror and wondered who it was staring back at her? Or gasped at how grown up her children look? Or puzzled at how her friends are aging prematurely? Reflection. Assessment. Anxiety.
A kind of Silent Spring of women's health, It's My Ovaries, Stupid! presents compelling evidence from worldwide research that common environmental toxins and endocrine disruptors in pesticides, plastic food wrappers, food additives, preservatives, soy supplements, aspartame in diet sodas and junk food, and more.
For more than a decade, Greg Anderson's The Cancer Conqueror has been helping cancer patients take control of their disease and their lives. Told as a modern-day parable, the book traces one patient's journey from the fear, futility, and grief felt upon first hearing a cancer diagnosis to the calm, focused, accepting outlook of a Cancer Conqueror.
Ninety lighthearted, inspirational devotions will help you leave "present tensions" behind in order to simplify your life and savor the moments.
A gift of laughter for those who need cheering up
Greet the New Millennium with Laughter with Eight Collections of Jokes, Cartoons, and "Jestimonials"! Effectively disproving any notion that Christians are relentlessly dour, melancholy, humorless, and joyless, these books from Cal and Rose Samra offer a rib-tickling treasury of Christian joy and humor.
From savoring the "here and now" to preparing for our glorious future in heaven, Livinging Somewhere Betwen Estrogen and Death by conference speaker Barbara Johnson is your wise and witty guide to the joys and challenges of aging gracefully.
Endometriosis is a debilitating reproductive and immunological disease that strikes between 7 and 11 million American women each year, significantly affecting fertility and often causing severe pelvic pain. The results are often emotional and psychological as well as physical.As someone who suffers from endometriosis, Kerry-Ann Morris is the perfect person to guide sufferers through diagnosis, treatment, and living well with the condition.
Who knew cooking healthful, low-fat food could be so much fun? In this hilarious, informative book-newly repackaged to complement their latest cookbook, Crazy Plates-sisters Janet and Greta Podleski combine jokes, cartoons, and humor with recipes, nutritional information, and inspiration.
Managing Pain before It Manages You is a well spring of wisdom and practical approaches that can help transform your life as well as your pain. Dr Caudill's enormous wealth of knowledge, extensive clinical experience, and compassionate understanding combine to make this the single best book on pain available today.
This cartoon collection offers the most current cartoons and jokes relating to various medical specialty areas. There are 27 story jokes accompanied by original drawings, plus 261 cartoons, many by nationally syndicated cartoonists.
The Menopause Diet will help you regain the vitality and shape of your youth without the need for pills or surgery. But more importantly, it can prolong your life by preventing damage to your body from uncontrolled blood sugar that can lead to heart disease, strokes and cancer.
Text explains the various stages of how menopause affects body, emotions, and libido. Includes discussions on hormone therapy, effects on bones and heart, and lifestyle issues. Also features ten fitness programs for menopausal women. Softcover.
Ever since the perils of menopause came out of the closet, women have been barraged with books about the subject--many of them helpful, all of them serious. Now Pat Ross considers all the miserable symptoms--hot flashes, mood swings, hormones, and expanding waistlines--and treats them with a delightful touch of humor National print publicity.
Linda Ojeda has long maintained that menopause is a natural stage in a woman's life, not a pathology that must be "medicalized.
Mature, responsible, well-adjusted females know that it's natural to expect some changes as the years go by and calmly accept that "to everything there is a season."
Mommy, Please Don't Cry is a book of love and comfort for mothers who have experienced the deep sorrow of losing a child. Serene illustrations frame gentle words that describe heaven from a child's perspective.
In Natural Hormone Balance for Women, Beverly Hills obstetrician-gynecologist Uzzi Reiss makes it clear that he believes in hormone replacement therapy for women, but not the "chemicalized hormonal substitutes" usually prescribed.
The authors introduce the reader to the concept of hormones as chemical messengers and discuss the pathways between them. They explain the differences between conventional HRT and the use of natural (i.e. human bio-identical) hormones and present evidence that HRT using bio-identical hormones can provide all the benefits of conventional HRT with drastically reduced risks of undesirable side effects.
For years, women thought they had only two choices for menopause: avoid taking synthetic hormones altogether and suffer the occasionally debilitating effects of menopause, ranging from bone loss to sleeplessness, or accept a prescription for Premarin and Provera and with it an increased risk of some cancers.
A guide for childless women offers ten steps toward resolution, including acknowledging and experiencing the loss, letting go of blame, rechanneling mothering energy, maximizing the advantages of child-free living, and more.
Patsy Clairmont is the author of such best-selling books as God Uses Cracked Pots and Normal Is Just a Setting on Your Dryer.
This unique guide for ovarian cancer gives women crucial medical information to improve the chance for lengthy remission and cure, as well as emotional support for the journey.
The tape is a 20 minute relaxation and it is to help you get in a relaxed frame of mind for surgery and to help visualize your healing. The book talks about relaxation, visualization, support group, etc.
Into all the deadly seriousness surrounding menopause, comes Red Hot Mamas Do Menopause With Style. Fast-paced text includes tables, pie charts, graphs, timelines, lists, letters and the best (real!) menopause Web sites.
Observing the radical shift in the medical community toward menstrual suppression as a viable option in womens health, Dr. Rako sees not only a vast information gap for women, but a serious health crisis on the horizon.
Every parent who has lost a child has dealt with disturbing, haunting questions. Why my child? Where is my baby now? Will I ever see my child again?Renowned Bible expositor John MacArthur tackles the question of infant death (in the womb or following birth) in his trademark stylewith detailed attention to Scriptures that hold the answers.
Testosterone is as natural to women as estrogen. It is not just a mans hormone. From a womans teens until menopause, her body makes more testosterone than estrogen! Testosterone is crucial to a womans health and well-being. Loss of testosterone can cause loss of sex drive and sexual sensation, marked fatigue, low energy, hair loss, decreased stamina, loss of height, and other symptoms. This book is written by a nationally known womens health physician and hormone specialist to provide reliable, cutting-edge medical information, important now to overcome stigma and negative myths about testosterone.
This is a big book, full of very relevant, practical information on the influence of hormones on every imaginable problem a woman can experience. It's kind of like "everything you wish your DR knew about why you feel so lousy", complete with anecdotal examples from Dr. Vliet's extensive practice.
Menopause is a complicated business. Medical issues vary widely and treatment options seem endless--especially in the wake of bad news about hormone replacement. While The Sexy Years isn't meant to supply you with a specific program of daily supplements, Suzanne Somers does offer an excellent inspiration to march forth and take control of this stage of health. Much of the book covers her own experience of menopause, including some detail on her breast cancer ordeal.
Bestselling author Barbara Delinsky, whose life has been shaped by her mother's breast cancer as well as her own, has created the book she wished had existed when she went through her treatment.
The South Beach Diet isn't complicated and doesn't require that you go hungry. You'll enjoy normal size helpings of meat, poultry, and fish.
This book will help you to better understand this disease and learn how to find and build a special relationship with the right doctor. Take the first step on your road to recovery and purchase this breakthrough new book by one of the worlds leading pelvic pain and endometriosis specialists. It will help guide you in your journey to recover your health.
This book provides answers for women not quite at midlife who undergo menopause brought on by a hysterectomy, anorexia, chemotherapy, or a reaction to medication.
A unique collection of narratives from women with lived experience of surgical menopause, plus insights from those working on the frontline of womens healthcare. Because when it comes to our health, forewarned is forearmed, and knowledge is power.
While this is nominally a book about male menopause, the authors have also included chapters on "Testosterone and your Heart", "Men, Women and Bone" and "Testosterone and Women". The book is a basic introduction to the role of testosterone in sexuality and health, and it's very clear and easy to understand.
This is Vickie Girards long-awaited and completely indispensable survival guide for cancer patients and their families. Regardless of the type of cancer, here is an immediate, practical, and inspiring guide that will empower any patient to better fight and survive this disease.
This book contains pre-op and post-op information, checklists, helpful hints for recovery and more. Advise given in the book is shared as a form of sisterly advice and women to women support. "Bedtime Stories for Hyster Sisters" are included to add to the sisterly charm of this book.
To Wake In Tears is the revolutionary book that introduced the herb marshmallow root to the IC community back in 1998. It was the first book to look at IC from a holistic perspective claiming that IC is not just a bladder disease. In order to truly heal from IC, the whole body must be treated.
Trigger point therapy is a proven technique used for the relief of soft-tissue pain and dysfunction, including pain from repetitive strain injuries, accident trauma, and sports injuries, as well as fibromyalgia (pain in muscles, ligaments, and tendons) and related conditions.
The Groundbreaking Guide Every Woman Needs With The V Book, women will learn everything they need to know about the basics of vulvovaginal--or "V"--health, an essential yet often overlooked area of women's health.
Each year, over 40,000 women in the U.S. die from breast cancer. With statistics rising, conventional methods of treatment are simply not working, and in some cases may even be harmful. Now, Drs. Lee and Zava explain the potentially life-saving facts, such as: likely sources for the increase in breast cancer, including environment, excessive estrogen, progesterone imbalance, and diet, and the dangers associated with traditional hormone replacement methods.
Two fibroid experts reveal the little-known facts about preventing and treating fibroid tumors--without surgery. Fibroid tumors are the leading reason why more than 500,000 American women have hysterectomies each year.
Women considering hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for menopause symptoms and health benefits should read this controversial, provocative book first. "Advertising and research dollars are spent trying to convince women that estrogen will cure everything from heart disease to Alzheimer's," writes John R. Lee, M.D....
Are you a woman between 35 and 50 experiencing PMS, migraine headaches, sudden weight gain, fatigue, irritability, tender or lumpy breasts, memory loss, fibroids, or cold hands and feet? If so, you may be experiencing symptoms of premenopause.
Since all women experience menopause differently, shouldn't there be more than one treatment? For decades, it was estrogen that was supposedly the ultimate cure-all for "the change." Recently, progesterone has been touted as the most effective menopause treatment.
Dr. Northrup, a board certified ob/gyn and current Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology through the University of Vermont College of Medicine's program at Maine Medical Center, discusses the physical and psychological changes of menopause from the point of view of a practitioner of both conventional and alternative medicine.
A skilled and innovative team has done it again. Gross and Ito ( Women Talk About Breast Surgery ) here survey major types of surgery involving the uterus, Fallopian tubes, and ovaries, from cesarean section and tubal ligation to hysterectomy and treatment of ovarian growths, benign or malignant.
As evidence of the miraculous healing powers within the body, the revised and updated version of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom indicates women are capable of healing themselves physically once they remove mental distractions.
This latest work from Suza Francina -- registered yoga therapist, certified Iyengar teacher, and author of The New Yoga for People Over 50 (Health Communications, 1997) -- is poised to join the auspicious ranks of The Woman's Book of Yoga, by Linda Sparrowe and Patricia Walden (Shambala, 2002), among the key volumes for women seeking help from yoga in negotiating crucial life passages.
For women of all ages, an empowering guide to avoiding surgery to treat chronic pelvic pain. When this outstanding medical guide was published in 1993, nearly 600,000 women a year were advised to undergo expensive and potentially risky hysterectomies. Though the issue has garnered much press since, the rate of needless and avoidable hysterectomies has not dropped off significantly.
If you've ever been frustrated, insulted, patronized or made to feel "hormone" is a dirty word, pull up a chair, because it's time we became good friends. Let me just start by confirming " you're not crazy " when you can't remember why you walked into a room, or when your hair and skin took on the appearance of someone whose been dragged through a hedge backwards.
Everyone needs to become a smart patient. In fact, in the worst cases, your life may even depend on it. Number one bestselling authors and doctors Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz have written this indispensable handbook to help everyone to get the best health care possible -- by making everyone into their own medical detective.
Combining personal stories of women's surgical experiences with the most recent medical data, this book offers a unique exploration into the issues surrounding hysterectomy and ovary removal.
It's not your mother's menopause--and this is the book that tells you why! Unlike most midlife guides for women, Your Perfectly Pampered Menopause offers more than somber discussions about hot flashes and hormone replacement therapy.