[sarabear0508]

#1019882

I have recently been diagnosed with Graves Disease and I see lots of post with many questions that this book answers. It’s called THE THYROID SOLUTION by Ridha Arem M.D.
Here is a passage from the book for those ppl dealing with anxiety and panic attacks!
"The rising tide of hormone in the blood and the flooding of brain cells with thyroid hormone often produce unusual feelings. You feel as if your going to suffocate or your soul were about to leave you. your heat starts beating very fast. Your palms become sweaty and you may break out in a generalized sweat. THe inability to control your body takes over. You have not passed out but you feel you are about to. You may get dizzy. The world around you looks strange, almost unrecognizable! You also feel frightened- a feeling that actually begins at the peek of despair. After the sense of fear plateaus and wanes gradually, you feel drained- not just tired, but literally exhausted. Then you try to rationalize what just happened- to your body,to your mind and to you. The first time this sensation strike, you might recognize this as a panic attack. You want to pick up the phone and call a friend your spouse or a relative and share your feelings. Now that the anxiety attack has resolved you are feeling exhausted wanting only to rest and understand what just happened. A few days later in the same unpredictable fashion as the previous time another wave of anxiety attacks you. You panic and try to fight it. In the process your symptoms get worse and worse. You desperately try to figure out whats wrong with you, feeling that your life is out of control and no longer your own. until finally all you feel is exhausted. This lasts only a couple of hours and life resumes its course. Quite often your are embarrassed by the feelings or even frightened to discuss them with the people closest to you."

Here is what the book covers. Each chapter is jammed packed with great information and many sub-topics also.

PART 1
* THE EMERGING MIND-THYROID CONNECTION: HOW A TINY ENDOCRINE GLAND INTIMATELY AFFECTS YOUR MOOD,EMOTIONS AND BEHAVIOR!*
~ Thyroid Imbalance: a Hidden Epidemic
~ Stress and Thyroid Imbalance:
~ Hypothyroidism: When the Thyroid is Under active
~Hyperthyroidism: When the Thyroid is overactive
~ Thyroid Imbalance- Beating Depression, Anxiety and Mood Swings
~Medicine from the Body: Thyroid hormone as an anti-depressant.

PART2
*NO- YOU’RE NOT MAKING IT UP! COMMON EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS.*
~Weight, Appetite and Metabolism: The Thyroid and your sex life
~Hormones of Desire: The thyroid and relationships collide.
~Overlapping Symptoms and Syndromes: Fatigue-Chronic Fatigue Syndrome-Hypoglycemia and Fibromyalgia

PART3
*WOMAN’S THYROID PROBLEMS. YOU’RE SYMPTOMS ARE NOT ALL IN YOUR HEAD!
~ Premenstrual Syndrome and Menopause: Turning the cycles
~ Infertility and Miscarriage: is your thyroid a factor?
~ Postpartum Depression: The hormonal link

PART4
*DIAGNOSING AND TREATING COMMON THYROID DISORDERS; THE JOURNEY TO WELLNESS
~ What you need to know about thyroid tests
~ Treatment and Imbalance
~Curing the lingering effects of thyroid imbalance
~ The New t4/t3 Protocol- " It made me feel better ALL over!"
~Living with thyroid eye disease
~ Thyroid Cancer: Curable and Anguishing
~ Eight Steps for the future- How to promote a better understanding of Thyroid,Mind, Body and Mood.

I hope this helps!

[Mickey65]

#1074776

Wow, amazing. I guess I’m one of the lucky ones who hasn’t felt (yet) those intense feelings of paranoia and everything else described in that paragraph you quoted.

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