No More Menstrual Cramps

"Women s medicine" has always been a strange area of the medical profession; most doctors have tended to assume that the majority of women s physical problems were all in their heads--and treated them accordingly. But the real story is different. Menstrual pain, for instance, so often dismissed as "psy- chological" even in medical textbooks, has been proven to have a specific physical cause --apd a specific remedy. When Dr. Budoff appeared on national television in 1979 and talked about her studies on a safe, non-nar- cotic drug that completely alleviated men- strual cramps, the stations were flooded with calls. For millions of suffering women, Dr. Budoff s research--which resulted in FDA approval of the drug for the pain of menstrual cramps--was a second lease on life. That s one of the stories in this booknbut there is much, much more. Among the topics discussed are: Premenstrual tension: And how a few simple changes in diet and a diuretic can relieve many of the symptoms; Estrogen replacement therapy: It s safer than you think; Contraception: Different methods for dif- ferent ages, life-styles, and medical histories; Breast care: Mammogram, sonogram, or thermogram? Why radical mastectomies be- long in the Stone Age;