Book Description
The book has practical information:
*·Naming possible symptoms
*·Identifying professional help
*·Learning how to educate yourself
*·Learning how to start a support group
*·Learning how to change your diet, lifestyle, and exercise
*·Describing a modern physician
*·Examining our belief systems about illness, health, and doctors
*·Defining Graves' disease; who gets Graves' disease; women and Graves' disease;
* Graves' disease and its causes; Graves' disease, genetics and children;
* Graves' disease and the environment
*·Looking at thyroid hormone and other medications
*·Studying Thyroid Eye Disease
*·Examining treatment options
*·Learning about the laboratories and blood tests
*·Learning about complementary treatments
as well as recommended reading lists, an information directory, a glossary and an index.
This book will help you make informed decisions with your medical partner. A support group colleague says, "This is the book that I wish I had when I was first diagnosed."
About the author
Kate lives in Tappan with her charming, talented, and humorous husband; gorgeous and wise teenage daughter; the world's softest and sweetest bunny rabbit, LuLu, and their very loving dog, Missy.
