109 of 112 people found the following review helpful:
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This book gave me my life back!, June 8, 2000
By A Customer
After months of crippling fatigue, severe depression, rapid weight gain, swelling of the legs, and hair loss, I had hoped at least one of my many specialists would have considered the obvious: hypothyroidism (I even had thyroid anitbodies which they insisted was "normal"). By some grace of God, I happened to move to the same town where Dr. Langer practices, and found a great advocate in him. He has put me on the right track with dessicated thyroid and already I feel better than I have ever felt in my life. It makes me almost cry to think what my life would have been like had I not discovered this great book and exceptional doctor. Trust your instincts...if you don't feel well, you probably aren't well. Insist that your MD pursues your symptoms until they are gone. By the way, I still refer back to this book on a regular basis.
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89 of 92 people found the following review helpful:
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Required reading for thyroid patients and their practitioner, April 5, 2001
Solved: The Riddle of Illness (Third Edition), by Stephen
Langer,M.D. and James Scheer highligh the authors' tremendous
knowledge of nutritional medicine, and the relationship between
thyroid disease and many conditions, such as arthritis, obesity,
depression, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, sexual problems, and much
more.
Dr. Langer, who is consistently ranked very highly by the
many patients who frequently recommend him in my Thyroid Top Doctors
Directory, and his colleague Jim Scheer -- a renowned author of
fifteen books on nutrition and health, and more than a thousand
magazine articles -- have updated this new edition to provide a
comprehensive holistic/nutritional approach to understanding thyroid
disease.
Dr. Langer is one of the innovative practitioners who
truly recognizes the issues surrounding hypothyroidism -- from
diagnosis, to treatment, to the underlying autoimmune challenges. He
is one of only a handful of practitioners around the country who I
feel truly understand thyroid disease, and are in a position to be
able to help thyroid patients.
The book addresses difficulties in
diagnosis, and various factors an astute practitioner should take into
account -- besides just TSH results -- to make a thyroid
diagnosis.
Once diagnosed with hypothyroidism, far too many doctors
still tell you there's nothing you can do except take your thyroid
hormone to be well. But this book discusses ways to help enhance
wellness by providing the proper nutrition the thyroid
needs. Approaches recommended in the book may help with the
deficiencies underlying a condition, not to mention the symptoms that
frequently don't resolve despite conventional treatments.
A very
useful part of this book is the final chapter, "For Doctors
Only." If you have an open- minded physician willing to be a
partner with you in your wellness, giving her or him a copy of this
chapter could be particularly useful.
Says the book, "...a
broad and serious blind spot exists today in physical diagnosis, one
that needs immediate recognition. ...Awareness of widespread
hypothyroidism and the three-way approach to its accurate diagnosis
will enable you to do one two things: rule it out entirely or get
proper treatment for it. This condition is too important to go ignored
and untreated."
This book broke new ground back when the first
edition was published, and this third edition is still challenging
doctors and patients to take a closer look at the relationship between
hypothyroidism and disease, and the foundation of nutrition as it
affects the thyroid and overall wellness. It's a required book on any
thyroid patient's bookshelf, not to mention required reading for the
doctors who treat us.
Mary Shomon, Editor, The Thyroid Disease
Website and Newsletter...and author of "Living Well With
Hypothyroidism: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You...That You Need to
Know."
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44 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
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This book is my life saver !, August 9, 1998
I consider myself very lucky for finding "Solved: The Riddle of Illness" in the amazon.com. Recently, I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism, and only because I had enough guts to ask my doctor to check my thyroid for possible problems. Before the diagnosis, I had so many symptoms "without the cause" that, in late thirties, I thought my life is slipping away. The suggested cure was "lose weight and take it easy." In other words, it was indirectly suggested that "everything is in my mind." If I only had this book then! I could've escaped from much misery and anxiety that is hard to describe even in thousands of words! "Solved: The Riddle of Illness" is my best friend now. Stephen E. Langer, M.D & James F. Scheer discus hypothyroid problems and their symptoms clearly, thoroughly, candidly. (One author has the condition.) I admire the authors for showing respect to the ordinary people's medical intelligence and give the! m an incredible tool - the knowledge of illness - to better their lives. It is one of the best health books I've ever read. Five star scale is not sufficient to rate it. My visits to an HMO doctor's office last five minutes, and this book will stay with me forever. All the information shared gave me understanding of the debilitating illness. Now, I have hope that there is much I can do to control it and eventually to come back to normal life. Thank you, Stephen E. Langer and James F. Scheer, from the bottom of my heart! I recommend this book to everyone who has unexplainable depression, fatigue, who lost love of life, or who is simply genuinely interested in staying healthy. Not just 75,000 copies but millions should be printed and discovered by such lucky readers like me.
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