Perseverance: YOU Be that One in a Million!

Age 7: The Pigeon Boy, The Suction Bush, and The Darkness

Age 31: The Color Blue

Monday, December 21, 2015

Who Am I - Casting Crowns (w/ lyrics)

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Dr Aranda's Short Stories

Age 7: The Pigeon Boy, The Suction Bush, and The Darkness

Age 31: The Color Blue

Hormones Matter’s Top 100 Articles for 2014

...AND guess who made it to #92?
Women Helping Women.
Quality of Life and Longevity through education. That's the Name of the Serious Game of Life.

When I talk to women, I say, "That's in my book!" ...and 10 minutes later, "I talk about that in my book, too!" .....and 5 minutes later, I say, "You know, you would really like my book. I go over all of this in a whole chapter."

Which book on Women's Health am I talking about? Oh! The one that's 300 pages + for $30.00? Yes.

Hormones Matter’s Top 100 Articles for 2014

Multiple Choice Answer:

a. No More Tears: A Physician Turned Patient Inspires Recovery
b. Stepping from the Edge
c. Little Missy Two-Shoes Likes a Ladybug
d. Little Missy Two-Shoes Likes to go to School
e. Archives of the Vagina: A Journey through Time

We can do this together, ladies! We can do this!

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Dr Aranda's Short Stories

Age 7: The Pigeon Boy, The Suction Bush, and The Darkness

Age 31: The Color Blue

Friday, December 18, 2015

Essure® Sterilization Coils: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

by Dr. Margaret Aranda

The Essure ® Fallopian tube coils were manufactured by Conceptus, Inc. as a means for “permanent” birth control (click here for pictures). There was a need for something new and different that was a non-hormonal, non-invasive, and uncomplicated method of sterilization that did not require anesthesia. But after skimming through the FDA (watching the tapes is embarrassing to me), and hearing them actually LAUGH at the Principal Investigators (PIs) who did the research, it has now killed, maimed, and brought hysterectomies and anguish to thousands of women.

Joining hands with Hooman Noorchashm, MD, Ph.D. and Amy Peer, MD, Ph.D., whose mortality was "played with" due to the morcellator medical device used during her thought-to-be-benign hysterectomy, here we are. Reviewing the Essure(R) coils, responsible also for one physician suicide after threatened with a malpractice lawsuit over misplacement of the Essure(R) coils.

What the heck are they doing to WOMEN? Women's Health is affected ACROSS THE GLOBE as planes full of Essure(R) coils are flown to Third World countries for permanent sterilization. WHO DOES THAT RESEMBLE? First, dehumanize the patients, then experiment on them, and ignore the side effects, the blood, pus and DEATHS....and keep on going on as if NOTHING HAPPENED. What happened to the Hippocratic Oath of "Do No Harm?" It's a SHAME! A SHAME! A Shame!

Thankfully, the BEAT GOES ON with WARRIORS e-SISTERS and Hooman Noorchashm, MD, Ph.D., and Amy Peer, MD, Ph.D., and Erin Brockovich, and others who C-A-R-E about H-U-M-A-N B-E-I-N-G-S!

WARRIORS! PUT ON YOUR GEAR! Get ready to STAMPEDE, if needed!

Dr Margaret Aranda

How to be a 'Professional' Patient:
No More Tears: A Physician Turned Patient Inspires Recovery by Dr. Margaret Aranda
Archives of the Vagina: A Journey through Time by Dr. Margaret Aranda
www.drmargaretaranda.wordpress.com

THE FIGHT IS ON!
Essure® Sterilization Coils: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. The Title of this blog article was used on Dr. Aranda's HormonesMatter.com article that discusses this matter in more full depth. That article is here.

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Dr Aranda's Short Stories

Age 7: The Pigeon Boy, The Suction Bush, and The Darkness

Age 31: The Color Blue

It Wasn’t by Choice: Dysautonomia

by Dr. Margaret Aranda

Wow. So many of us walk around with dysautonomia before it even gets an accurate "diagnosis." WHY is this so? Is it because it is a RARE disease? No. The incidence probably has not changed. It is the detection that has increased. Even so, many are "left behind" for weeks, months, or even years while the doctors (2-30 of them) scratch their heads in equal frustration, NOT KNOWING what the patient has. That's why we have the Invisible Illness Petition on FB, to get the ER docs to diagnose it. To get the med students to learn it. Not just dysautonomia, but ALL The INVISIBLE ILLNESSES. But here's a real, live, clinical story of my dysautonomia and how the doctors even told me, a Board-Certified Anesthesiologist with Subspecialty Critical Care Certification, Forensic Medicine Certification, and eventually, Certification in Age Management Medicine and my Ph.D. in Forensic Medicine.

One of the key things to learn? SPEAK UP! Don't let anyone talk down to you! Fight back!
Our WARRIOR MOTTO for 2016: We are TIgers and we are going to RROOAAARRRR! Let's get back our lives!
BE YOUR OWN CHANGE!!!

For more on how doctors think, how they write their notes, and how you can be a "Professional Patient," get 1 of my books:
No More Tears: A Physican Turned Patient Inspires Recovery
Archives of the Vagina: A Journey through Time
www.drmargaretaranda.tateauthor.com/other-works/

Dr. Margaret Aranda

It Wasn’t by Choice: Dysautonomia

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Dr Aranda's Short Stories

Age 7: The Pigeon Boy, The Suction Bush, and The Darkness

Age 31: The Color Blue

Hysterectomy in America

by Dr. Margaret Aranda

So your mother and all our aunts have had a hysterectomy, and they're all "FINE." And every girl at the office has had a hysterectomy (except YOU). Do you HAVE TO KEEP UP with the Jones' on this one? Or should you stop and think, "I have my own brain, and this is my only body. I'm going to educate myself on this, ask a lot of questions, SPEAK UP, and THEN decide if I WANT or DO NOT WANT to have this procedure done."

After all, it has many similarities as if you are showing up to a car dealership, asking the car salesman if you should buy a car. I believe that I see many parallelisms here, and I don't want YOU to just "go along with the flow." I want YOU to THINK FOR YOURSELF! SPEAK UP! Ask questions! Seek a 2nd or a 3rd Opinion! Could you live with any of the complications?

Do you really think this will make your life BETTER? There's an old saying in surgical language: "The enemy of 'better' is "WORSE." So how do you KNOW if you won't be WORSE OFF? Talk to women's groups. Talk to women that already had it done. Be FULLY informed. You Owe it to Yourself.

Dr. Margaret Aranda
Book: Archives of the Vagina: A Journey through Time
www.drmargaretaranda.tateauthor.com/other-works/

Hysterectomy in America

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Dr Aranda's Short Stories

Age 7: The Pigeon Boy, The Suction Bush, and The Darkness