What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Fibromyalgia: What You Need To Know That Could Save Your Life; Signed

Meilink, Linda; Rhoades, Patrick

ISBN 10: 1440187789 / ISBN 13: 9781440187780

Published by iUniverse, 2009

About this Item

Inscribed by Linda Meilink on FFEP; Very slightest of edgewear; 198 pages; Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # HM3443

Bibliographic Details

• Title: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Fibromyalgia: What You Need To Know That Could Save Your Life; Signed
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1440187789
• ISBN 13: 9781440187780
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: No Edition Stated.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Health
  • Signed Books

About this title

Synopsis

If you've always trusted that most of your doctors are up-to-date, informed, and rarely mistaken about a diagnosis or treatment, this book may change your mind. Fibromyalgia is listed as one of the Top 10 most painful conditions in medicine, but, many doctors still do not "believe" in it, or, if they do, they have a vague notion of a collection of mild symptoms that they attribute to stress, menstrual problems, weight gain, depression or hysteria. None of these conditions have been scientifically linked to fibromyalgia. FMS (a common term for fi bromyalgia) attacks men and women of all ages, even children, and varies in intensity. Because doctors do not like to treat conditions they don't understand, patients are often ignored, denied pain relief, shuttled off to other "experts", or fi lled with powerful prescription drugs that may add new and confusing symptoms. What Your Doctor Doesn't Know about Fibromyalgia will help you take charge of your condition and teach you how to fi nd physicians you can trust so that you can obtain the relief you need.

About the Author

Linda Meilink is an award winning writer, columnist, and journalist. For ten years, she was the managing editor for a newspaper in northern California. She has written for national publications such as Working Woman and Fibromyalgia Aware. She was diagnosed with fibromyalgia six years ago. She lives in Modesto, California, with her husband and two dogs.