Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-267) and index.
Introduction: A Woman's Disease -- Chapter 1. All About Eve -- And the Thyroid Gland -- What Is a Thyroid? -- Tracing Thyroid Disease in Your Family -- Thyroid and Your Menstrual Cycle -- Thyroid and Contraception -- The Breast Connection -- Chapter 2. Signs of Trouble: It Is Not All in Your Head -- Fast Women: The Hyperalphabet Soup -- Cold Women: The Hypoalphabet Soup -- Chapter 3. Fatigue, Depression, and Thyroid Disease -- Normal Stress and Fatigue -- Abnormal Fatigue: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome -- Depression or Thyroid Disease? -- Chapter 4. Fertility, Pregnancy, and the Thyroid -- Getting Pregnant -- Being Pregnant -- After the Baby Is Born -- Your Baby's Thyroid -- Chapter 5. Thyroid Disease and Menopause -- Natural Menopause -- Surgical Menopause -- Long-Term Effects of Estrogen Loss: Postmenopausal Symptoms -- Hormone Replacement Therapy and Thyroid Disease -- Other Postmenopausal Concerns -- Chapter 6. Women and Thyroid Eye Disease -- What Is Thyroid Eye Disease (TED)? -- Battling the Bulge: Treating TED -- Drying Your Eyes Out -- Chapter 7. The Weight and Diet Connection -- Thyroid Disease and Obesity -- Making Changes and Cutting Fat -- Fiber -- "Iodine Foods" and the Thyroid -- Chapter 8. The Stress Connection: Autoimmune Thyroid Disorders -- What Is an Autoimmune Disorder? -- Other Stress-Related Disorders -- What Is Stress? -- Chapter 9. Thyroid Lumps and Thyroid Cancer -- Investigating a Thyroid Lump -- Thyroid Cancer -- Preventing Thyroid Cancer -- Chapter 10. Thyroid Doctors, Tests, and Treatments -- The Right Primary Care Doctor -- When to Get a Second Opinion -- How to Use a Specialist -- What the Doctor Orders -- When Your Doctor Tells You to Take a Pill -- Appendix. Where to Go for More Information.