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by Clair Davies, N.C.T.M.B.
Many people with a chronic illness also suffer from chronic pain. Yet few know that pain that does not stem from arthritis, neuropathy or a spinal defect, may in fact be caused by a knot in the muscle. Knots in muscles that refer pain or similar discomfort to other parts of the body are called trigger points.
Continue reading "Book Review: The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook" »
Health writer and blogger Laurie Edwards has written a book and I am so happy to review it. This book is brand new and just became available June 24th. I found Laurie's blog achronicdose.com about a year ago and I have been reading it ever since. She's living with multiple chronic illnesses (PCD or Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia, bronchiectasis, celiac disease, and more).
Continue reading "Book Review: Life Disrupted: Getting Real About Chronic Illness in Your Twenties and Thirties" »
I work part time in a public library and recently a new book came across my desk that I was thrilled to see. It is a children's book on Lupus geared for ages 10 and up. The book is user friendly, easy to read, but far from simplistic and broken down into five chapters. The chapters are delve into 5 basic questions- What is Lupus?, What causes Lupus?, How is Lupus Treated?, How to Live with Lupus? and What is the Future for Lupus? There are also photographs, drawings and charts, which simplify this sometimes confusing and overwhelming subject.
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This book is an interesting read for anyone who suffers from back pain. It is written by two successful chiropractors. I would say that if you do not believe in the benefits of chiropractic medicine, this book may not be for you. I felt the authors wrote this book with a "voice" that seemed truly honest, and friendly. It seemed to me they really wanted to help people feel better. I never got the impression that they were "selling" their ideas or products, which unfortunately happens some times in health books. The book is written from the belief that back pain comes from three distinct causes: structural physical damage; nutritional/diet; and emotional-stress and personal issues that may affect health. I agree with this philosophy as I have seen in my own life how everything, including exercise, stress and work, effect how I feel.
Continue reading "Book Review: The Truth About Back Pain: A Revolutionary, Individualized Approach to Diagnosing and Healing Back" »
This book's author was featured on PBS's television program "The Brain Fitness Program." This book mixes scientific research with anecdotal stories. This is not really a self-help type book, but it does give the reader a good overview of brain science. It will not give the reader examples of "how to" change, but that change is possible, with examples of such.
Continue reading "Book Review: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" »
This book's author was featured on PBS's television program "The Brain Fitness Program." This book mixes scientific research with anecdotal stories. This is not really a self-help type book, but it does give the reader a good overview of brain science. It will not give the reader examples of "how to" change, but that change is possible, with examples of such.
Continue reading "Book Review: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" »
Every patient over the course of their disease will learn the tell tale signs pointing to their body entering a "flare up".
I am one of those patients who know their body like a road map. I know every scar, every blemish, every black and blue. I have learned that any change, addition, or variation of these are hints and clues as to what lies on the road before me.
I find myself at times analyzing my own body like a detective on a mystery case. The book Body Signs is a fantastic book that offers even more insight to the clues our body naturally gives us to understand our own state of health. I found this book interesting, but also re-assuring to the self awareness I already had.
Continue reading "Book Review: Body Signs - From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How To Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective" »
A 5 -week Program for Living a Heart- Healthy Lifestyle
So, February came and went, and I was so busy that I missed "Heart Month". The American Heart Association had many program's Like the infamous "go Red" campaign, and as I watched the news anchors wear red, and even my favorite TV shows incorporating the theme, I skipped out on checking on my own health. We are so focused on February being the season of Valentine's Day but, what better way to show the ones you love how much you care than by checking on the state of your heart. I guess all the heart health promotions finally got to me, because I finally took the time to read the book "Heart Smart for Black Woman and Latinas".
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Author: Mari Florence
This was the first book I ever read on fibromyalgia. I was diagnosed with it in November of 2004, then later with lupus SLE in 2005. I had never heard of fibromyalgia before and when my rhuematologist told me it was causing all my symptoms, I didn't know what to think. I googled a search for some helpful books and came across this one- First Year Fibromyalgia.
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The Checklist presents itself as a manual or guideline to a healthy lifestyle; just follow the steps using the “Decade by Decade Health Maintenance Plan”, and you will stay as healthy as possible. Though the concept brought out the skeptic in me, as I read through the chapters, which are organized by decade, I found Dr. Alvarez to be informative and friendly to those who do not have a medical background.
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Author: David A. Morton III, M.D.
If you have found yourself no longer able to work due to chronic illness, it is likely that you have had to either apply for disability benefits, via Social Security, or at least consider doing so. The various stages in the process and the question of whether you qualify for federal or state funds or both, can be quite confusing. What is meant by a "severe" impairment? And what do you do if you apply, but are denied benefits?
Continue reading "Book Review: Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability:Getting and Keeping Your Benefits, 2nd Edition" »
A 30 day plan to boost energy, enhance weight loss, heal GI problems, prevent disease, and slow aging.
by John R. Taylor N.D. and Deborah Mitchell
Continue reading "Book Review: The Wonder of Probiotics" »
The title of this new cookbook might not immediately grab you with it's lowercase lettered title and the concept of low salt dishes. This is a cookbook that you buy with good intentions of getting healthy and cooking nutritionally better dishes. Since I wanted to write a review of this book I needed to take the next step and actually use it! What a pleasant and tasty surprise!
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* and other cortisone-related medicines It may work miracles, but how do you handle the side effects?
A guide to the potential nutritional, emotional, and physical side effects of taking long-term cortisone related medicines. Co-authored by a Eugenia Zukerman, world renowned flutist who was prescribed prednisone for a rare lung disease, and her sister, a specialist physician, this book describes Ms. Zukerman's experience with this treatment and provides helpful information on the management of the side effects.
Continue reading "Book Review: Revised and Updated - Coping with Prednisone*" »
By Sheldon Paul Blau, MD and Dodi Schultz
In my opinion, this is one of the most current valuable books published on living with Lupus. I found it to be very informative and easy to read, without speaking in thick, confusing medical jargon.
Continue reading "Book Review: Living with Lupus - The Complete Guide (2nd edition- revised and updated)" »
By Eugenia Zukerman & Julie R. Ingelfinger, MD
Have you ever had the chance to experience the tranquil sounds of classical music? I'll bet you have. Have you ever picked each and every instrument out one-by-one as your brain separates wood from string?
Continue reading "Book Review: Coping With Prednisone - It May Work Miracles, But How Do You Handle the Side Effects (*And Other Cortisone-Related Medicines)" »
Authors: R.N., Holly Gautier, M.D., Ernest H. Rosenbaum
Right away this book's title caught my eye. The idea of a book being written from the positive point of view of "survivorship" is wonderful but unfortunately rare. Patients and loved ones want answers on not only how to get better, but what to do once they do get better.
Continue reading "Book Review: Everyone's Guide to Cancer Survivorship: A Road Map For Better Health" »
IBS Chat: Real Life Stories and Solutions is a compilation of the best postings by members of the Internet-based Irritable Bowel Syndrome Self Help and Support Group, www.ibsgroup.org. Since I run the message boards at
butyoudontlooksick.com I was curious to read these postings to see if their community was similar in experience as mine.
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Book Review: Know Your Numbers, Outlive Your Diabetes: 5 Essential Health Factors You Can Master to Enjoy a Long and Healthy Life
I recently had the pleasure of stumbling upon Amy Tendrich's blog about living with diabetes. I found her writing to be easy to read and interesting (an unusual combination when reading health related writing.) While I was there I noticed that she co-authored a book about diabetes. I was intrigued to see how her writing would read in book form.
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Fibromyalgia is frequently diagnosed but poorly understood. Chronic fatigue syndrome by its very name is the source of conflicting opinion and no real consensus on treatment. What is a person to do when they discover they have one or both of these ailments? Resign oneself to an ever-deteriorating lifetime of poor health? Not necessarily. There are many resources, both medical and non-medical, available, and Mary Shomon covers the gamut in her book.
Continue reading "Book Review: Living Well with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia:" »
This is a wonderful book to add to your yoga library. It is well put together with expressive photographs and explanations that create a clear understanding. This is a great book for a beginner, but it also offers solid information for someone who has been practicing for a while. What I appreciate about this book is that most of it is comprised of floor postures. If I’m really tired, I can simply move from page to page without even once being asked to stand up. There is a good balance between a variety of ways you can bend or twist or pose your body in order to feel looser in limb and joint, fresher in muscle, and more relaxed, as well as centered and peaceful.
Continue reading "Book Review of Yoga; the Iyengar Way by Silva, Mira and Shyam Mehta" »
I am in love with this book. This book has become my daily friend, someone I turn to with each physical ache and trouble. Thanks to this book, I now have a daily yoga practice. After years of dabbling, I finally decided that my health issues called for taking a deeper look into what yoga could bring. That’s when this book crossed my path and I am deeply grateful.
Continue reading "Book Review: ‘Yoga: The Path to Holistic Health’ by B.K.S. Iyengar" »
Suffering from Chronic Migraines for several years, on an everyday basis, has left me with very few options. While narcotics are not the first line of treatment, they are there as a last resort, and to some, the only resort. For many, the idea of taking a narcotic medication, either as needed or as an extended release dosage, provokes many feelings. Many people are afraid of stigmas and discrimination, sometimes even coming from ourselves.
Continue reading "Book Review: “The Truth About Chronic Pain” by Arthur Rosenfeld" »
This book is subtitled ‘The Non-Drug Approach to the Treatment of Candida Infection’ and that gives you an idea of what it mostly contains. The first four chapters – ‘Candida albicans and common health problems’, ‘Candida and your defense systems’, ‘How Candida gets out of hand’ and ‘Candida and its consequences to your health’ – describe in depth the background to the condition of Candida overgrowth. But most of the book is taken up with the in-depth later chapters, which detail Chaitow’s non-drug approach to controlling Candida.
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Heather Van Vorous is a patient-expert in Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) who has had IBS since she was a small child and who thought for years that she was the only person in the world with IBS. After a decade of not getting much help from the medical profession, she gradually learned which foods triggered her IBS and which foods soothed it, through years of trial and error. She then thoroughly researched why these foods had the physical effects they did.
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I discovered this book recently on my in-laws' bookshelves and picked it up to check out the Alexander technique, which my physio had suggested to me. I ended up going through the entire book cover-to-cover and have now begged an extended loan of it!
Continue reading "Book Review: The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Alternative Healing" »
I’ve been wanting to read this book ever since I first saw it for sale on a website I was already buying from and I couldn’t resist getting it. I found it to be a very interesting read and since it is extremely well written and laid out, it was also an easy read. Potentially tricky subjects are dealt with tact and sensitivity and the book offers very frank and practical advice.
Continue reading "Book Review: The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability" »
Chances are, if you have one or more autoimmune conditions, you may have heard of celiac disease, or maybe you or someone you know has it. Celiac disease is an autoimmune reaction to eating foods containing wheat, rye or barley. The treatment for the disease is complete avoidance of these foods, also known as a gluten free diet. This is both easier and more complicated than it sounds. Many foods contain hidden gluten, such as restaurant French fries coated in wheat to make them crispier, or gluten free foods fried in the same basket as or cooked on the same grill as wheat containing food, which contaminates the gluten free food. How does one avoid hidden gluten without missing out on all their favorite foods? "Living Gluten Free for Dummies" tell you how.
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In this book, Leon Chaitow describes a wide range of approaches to pain-relief without medications. Although the author seems to be quite anti-medication, this book is ideal for those who are looking to use alternative, holistic methods to control their pain alongside western medications.
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The author , Jan Sadler, developed these techniques for pain-relief after drug therapy was ineffective in controlling her pain caused by a back injury and operation. Unlike many books on alternative pain relief, which concentrate on alternative therapies from outside our bodies, this book is entirely about the control we can develop over ourselves, our lives and our pain.
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When I first saw the title of this book, I was obviously intrigued, since the name of my website is Butyoudontlooksick.com. I knew the author and I would have some things in common. This book is a simple journal type chronicle of the life of a woman dealing with a chronic illness.
Continue reading "Book Review: You Don't Look Sick - Living Well With Invisible Chronic Illness" »
Author: Joanna Baumer Permut
Lupus is the Latin word for Wolf. A nineteenth century French doctor named the disease lupus for two reasons; one because of the effects it has on a person's insides which reminded him of a wolf's ravenous appetite, and secondly, because of the rash that often accompanies lupus, resembling the bite of a wolf.
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by Carol Sveilich
I could very easily be one of the interesting people featured in this book. It could be my face in the pictures and my story to be told and I can only imagine that if you are reading this review, it could also be your story of living and acting "just fine" when your body aches with pain.
Continue reading "Book Review: Just Fine: Unmasking Concealed Chronic Illness And Pain" »
By: Lynne Matallana with Laurence A. Bradley, PhD., Stuart L. Silverman, M.D.,
and Muhammad B. Yunus, M.D.
You don't actually have to be an idiot to read this book. A collaborative effort
between one of the co-founders of the National Fibromyalgia Association (NFA)
and some of the foremost medical experts on the disease, this book was published
only a few months ago and addresses readers both knowledgeable and otherwise.
Continue reading "Book Review: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fibromyalgia" »
Edited by: Daniel J. Wallace, M.D.
This is the definitive book on Sjogren's syndrome, a condition affecting up to
four million Americans. Sjogren's is the second most common autoimmune rheumatic
disease.
Continue reading "Book Review: The New Sjogren's Syndrome Handbook, Revised and Expanded Third Edition" »
By Sharon Moore
Since my diagnosis I have contemplated the idea of going
"Natural". It seems there are more drug warnings and recalls than
before.
Continue reading "Book Review: Lupus: Alternative Therapies That Work" »
by Isadore Rosenfeld. M.D
There's a kindly looking, grandfatherly doctor on the cover of this book and
inside he confides to you 167 up-to-the-minute medical discoveries, treatments
and cures that can save your life. Who wouldn't want to read this book?
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