Stop the Thyroid Madness: A Patient Revolution Against Decades of Inferior Treatment
by Janie A. Bowthorpe
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Author: Janie A. BowthorpeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-04-04
ISBN: 0615144314
Number of pages: 296
Publisher: Laughing Grape Publishing
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Book Review: You Can Diet & Exercise All You Want & STILL Be FAT!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't normally write a lot of book reviews, even though I read tons of books, but this book, this author, this human being has helped me so tremendously (and I have never even met her) that I felt compelled to write a review in hopes that it can help so many more people who are struggling without a support system.
Are you not feeling like yourself, maybe it came on suddenly...or maybe it has been coming on for many years? Is it harder and harder to recover from illness? Is your doctor telling you that you are too fat because you eat too much and don't exercise enough, but you know that is not the case? Do you feel tired and stressed a lot, or unable to deal with the stresses in your life feeling overwhelmed? Are you less enthusiastic about life, even depressed? Do you have a tendency to overheat or get very cold especially in the hands and feet? Is your digestion sluggish with constipation or diarrhea? Is your skin getting drier, hair thinning? Are you gaining weight for no reason, have stubborn fat in certain areas that you can't lose no matter how hard you diet and exercise, or are you losing despite how many calories you eat? Are you looking much older for your age than you normally would age? Do you look in the mirror and say, "When did I get so ugly?" Do you have dark circles under your eyes, puffy bags, a puffy or overly gaunt face? It is harder and harder to get the same amount of work done in a day? Do you feel like you are getting stupid, unable to concentrate, misplacing items? Do you bruise more easily; are your bones more fragile? Have you been diagnosed with thyroid disease, but still feel horrible despite your medications and blood work coming back "fine"?
These are just a few of the signs and symptoms of adrenal fatigue and thyroid issues, which are largely undiagnosed or improperly treated when diagnosed. From all the patients I have met over the past decade, it is my conclusion that thyroid and adrenal issues are EPIDEMIC, and largely going untreated or poorly treated. Most people spend years suffering without knowing what is wrong with them and not getting the help they need from the doctors. While it is getting more and more mainstream attention, most of the books and information out there just covers a small fraction of what a person needs to know to get healthy. This book is in a league by itself.
Many years ago when I first suspected thyroid disease after a co-worker commented based on my symptoms I should get my thyroid checked, I discovered Mary Shomon's books and website. It was helpful to me at the time, but the role of the adrenals on thyroid function was left out of the discussion and it didn't seem like patients on the forums were really getting their lives back. After getting a blood test showing I had very low cortisol (which my endocrinologist ignored), I researched online and became more and more sure I had adrenal issues. I then got the book by Dr. Wilson Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome. I went on his supplements for a couple of years but kept getting worse. They didn't work for someone who had more serious adrenal issues. It wasn't until I had two near death experiences and over 30 Addisonian crises (which I later learned), that by the grace of God I stumbled upon Janie's website and began to put the pieces together of what was wrong with me. She had a link on there to an adrenal group run by another patient, Valerie Taylor, and between the two of them it was like God sent the angels in!
Janie Bowthorne's book, Stop the Thyroid Madness: A Patient Revolution Against Decades of Inferior Treatment, is named after her website and is your first step to getting control back of your health and your life! Janie is a thyroid patient and adrenal fatigue sufferer herself, advocating for better diagnosis and care. She began a website several years ago for the sole purpose of helping other people and sharing her own, often painful story of improper diagnosis, treatment, and care at the hands of an often incompetent medical establishment. Janie also moderates a yahoo group where patients or suspected suffers share their success and trials and tribulations. I respect any one out there who is willing to take their time and help people for free, and Janie has done this to the tune of thousands of hours and many years. How many doctors are willing to do that and not make one penny?
Some of the more crucial things Janie covers in her book are how many of the most common tests will not show the true functioning of the thyroid and adrenal glands, what tests you need to insist on and where you can test without a doctor, where to find good doctors, which medications work best, and a lot about supplements that help. She covers why patients can still feel sick even when their doctors tell them their medications are fine, the role of the adrenal glands in thyroid function, and so many other great concepts. This is a very holistic approach, common sense, easy to read and follow. After you get the book, if you still have questions, you can join Janie's yahoo group.
With all the attention on Oprah's recent 40 lb weight gain and admitted thyroid disease (which she claims to have "cured", thyroid disease is getting more attention. Oprah gives no specifics on what type of thyroid disease she had, how it was diagnosed (which tests), or what treatment she used to "cure" it, etc. I find that completely disingenuous. Not to mention her latest broadcast this week on her weight made it about her having a food addiction. At the same time, every symptom she described was one of still untreated thyroid disease. With all her money and access, it seems even billionaire Oprah is woefully ignorant on how to help herself and surrounds herself with people who impede her progress rather than enlightening her.
Bob Greene did not help matters by saying she used her thyroid disease as an "excuse". That is easy for someone who doesn't suffer from the disease to say this, but completely typical. Many of us eat better diets than Bob Greene and still get fat as hell because our metabolisms are so screwed up; in big part to all the toxins we are absorbing from water, air, food, environment, etc. I used to eat 4000 calories a day and not gain weight (due to serious adrenal issues). I used to be very athletic. Had Bob Greene known me he would have told me how great and healthy I was. But I was not, far from it. As my illness progressed, I went on the opposite end and was gaining eating only 800 calories a day and at least 30 pounds overweight! Women are especially susceptible to adrenal and thyroid diseases because of our complex hormonal systems, but more and more men are joining online support groups because they too are suffering from adrenal and thyroid issues.
Well, you don't have to be!
Oprah was sent Janie's book by many patients who want to help her and help other women she reaches, to no avail. On Oprah's program this week, she admitted four doctors did not detect her thyroid disease and it was her readers who kept writing in and saying to get her thyroid checked. Yet, apparently she doesn't read her letters and email and it was a long time before staff gave her the messages. It turned out the readers were right.
As for H. Doran's "2" rating based on the fact that Janie is not a medical professional but instead a patient, my response: that is EXACTLY why she is qualified to write such a book. She's been there, done that, and used the real life experiences of thousands of patients in her book. You know, dozens of doctors I fired over the years who did NOTHING to help me knew less combined than Janie Bowthorne. Had those doctors paid attention, my disease would not have progressed to full blow Addison's, nor would I have had the bone loss, depression, career set backs, etc. Thanks to Janie and thousands of other patients she and Ms. Taylor help on the their yahoo sites, people like me have a second change at life. When you are inches from death and no one can tell you what is wrong with you, then God sparks something in your brain and tells you to go search on this website, you realize angels come in all forms.
I am not just angry but FURIOUS at the corporate medical system hat betrayed me and led to what was a very treatable disease had it been caught early enough, to now a lifelong chronic disease with debilitating implications for me and my life.
H. Doran is right that Armour doesn't work for everyone, but most patients do better on it than Synthroid or other synthetics. Usually when it doesn't work, there are other underlying issues like cellular resistance, low iron, etc. In very difficult cases like mine where a person has a lot of toxicity issues, RT3 issues, conversion issues, cellular resistance, etc. even just taking Armour isn't the answer and more heavy detoxing has to be done for any meds to work properly. However, Janie isn't saying Armour or any one med is the be all, cure all. She is realistic, her website says why she prefers Armour. More and more doctors who are actually SUCCESSFULLY treating thyroid patients agree with her. So, she might not be a medical professional, but she gets it right. Better yet, the patients tell the true story and to those of us who were in the dark wilderness, people like her have been a Godsend.
If making a small amount of $$ from these book sales helps Janie maintain her website and continue her advocacy, which she has been doing for free and footing the bills for the site all these years, then it is the best $$ I have spent.
For readers who are undecided about the investment, take a look at her website and click through the links: [...]. If you learn one new thing on there, then I say go buy the book because it has even more and you will need to refer to it over and over again (especially if you have thyroid disease induced brain fog).
Regaining one's health is a slow, steady process with setbacks and successes. Many thanks to books like Stop the Thyroid Madness: A Patient Revolution Against Decades of Inferior Treatment which help people take control of their health, and their lives.
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Summary of Stop the Thyroid Madness: A Patient Revolution Against Decades of Inferior Treatment
With even more pages, a new chapter on foods and supplements, and additions throughout the entire book, this informative Second Edition of the ever-popular classic, "Stop the Thyroid Madness: A Patient Revolution Against Decades of Inferior Treatment", continues to break ground as the ONLY thyroid patient-to-patient book on the market. It addresses a 60+ year, international thyroid treatment scandal involving the use of T4-only medications like Synthroid and other T4-only meds, as well as the TSH lab test--both which have left hundreds of millions worldwide either undiagnosed or undertreated. It explains in detail: 1) what medications work far better and why; 2) which labwork is better than others, and how to read the results (i.e., it has nothing to do with just being "in range"); 3) how a huge body of thyroid patients fall into adrenal fatigue/HPA dysfunction as a result of poor treatment by doctors, plus what patients have learned in treating it; 4) a long list of causes of hypothyroidism; 5) cutting-edge treatment of Hashimotos's disease and gluten intolerance; 6) why patients need to be aware of Reverse T3, plus how to treat it; 7) how to discover and treat low levels of Vit. D, B12, ferritin and iron, iodine and more deficiencies which doctors can miss. As always, this "Bible of Thyroid Treatment", as successfully experienced by patients worldwide, strives to educate the reader in order to bring this on-going and scandal-breaking information into doctors offices worldwide, and create needed change.Health, Mind & Body Books
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