Managing Type 2 Diabetes
Recently I accompanied a dear friend on a visit to her great aunt who was dying in a hospital. The first thing Aunt Gert said to us was, “Girls, whatever you do don’t get diabetes. It’s the one thing I would have changed about my life.” Aunt Gert had been in the hospital for three […]
Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
Many conditions bring parents to our office concerned for the health of their children. A full twenty percent of our practice consists of pediatrics. We see a plethora of ailments from sports injuries to scoliosis, but the most difficult to treat are chronic arthropathies including juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. This condition can be difficult to manage […]
Hypothyroidism
I often get the topics for this column from people I see in my office for various conditions, and people with the same conditions show up in droves when the timing is right for the topic to be discussed. Invariably someone will come up to me at the grocery store or Wal-Mart and say thanks […]
Hyperthyroidism
My last column discussed the thyroid gland and what happens when it is under-active, a disorder called hypothyroidism. This week’s offering will explore the opposite ailment, hyperthyroidism, a condition in which the thyroid gland is over-active and produces too much of the thyroid hormones. The thyroid gland is a butterfly-shaped gland which is located at […]
Hiatal Hernias
Life is too short to eat a bland diet. There are a select few things that I absolutely adore, and great food is one of them. A few years back before I began to monitor my general eating habits, I suffered from gastric reflux. My doctor at the time prescribed Tagamet (so this was before […]
Fibromyalgia
Last week one of the members of our practice expressed appreciation for my writing a column about anxiety, mentioned the fact that a friend of hers has been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, and asked if I would write on the subject. In doing research for this week’s column, I decided to present the side of the […]