The Feel-Good Guide to Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome : A Comprehensive Resource for Recovery

A Personalized Approach to Feeling Better Struggling with fibromyalgia (FMS) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a triple challenge: Not only must you deal with pain, exhaustion, and other symptoms, but you also have to contend with health-care providers who often won't acknowledge that you're actually sick, and a confusing array of health care options. In twenty years of practice, author Lynette Bassman has seen many people with FMS and CFS. She's even struggled with CFS herself. Bassman knows that it's possible to overcome these conditions. She found the right combination of approaches to heal herself-and so can you, if you use the comprehensive information and recovery advice you'll find in this book. **The Feel-Good Guide to Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome** begins with an overview, offering a simple explanation of what is known about FMS and CFS. It then describes and evaluates most available therapies, both conventional and alternative, that can address not only physical symptoms but emotional and spiritual ones as well. You'll assess your own symptoms and customize a treatment approach that meets your own unique symptom profile. Finally, you'll learn how to chart a course to recovery that will help you feel better and maintain your progress.

When they were first documented in the medical literature, fibromyalgia (FMS) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) were thought to be little more than psychosomatic complaints. Sufferers were repeatedly told nothing was medically wrong with them, though they slogged through life chronically exhausted and crippled with pain. But times have changed. Medical professionals now recognize that FMS and CFS are very real and highly individualized medical conditions, which require dedicated and attentive care. Many of the first books about FMS and CFS sought to tell readers with the medical establishment "didn't want them to know," but people with FMS and CFS no longer need to be liberated from the "secret stigma" of their condition. Now they need to learn what they can do to start feeling better. This book takes FMS and CFS out of the shadows and explores treatments for each that really work.

It begins with an overview of FMS and CFS, offering a simple explanation of what is known about these conditions. Then describes and evaluates most available therapies, both conventional and alternative. The book even addresses emotional problems that can accompany FMS and CFS and offers ways to overcome them. You'll learn to assess symptoms and customize a treatment approach that meets yourr own personal symptom profile. Instead of "working against the system," you'll be able to use the treatment resources available to them to start feeling better and to stay that way.

People wrestling with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome don't want a bunch of political baloney about how misunderstood and hard to control their condition is-they want to feel good again. The Feel-Good Guide to Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome helps them build a personalized treatment plan that really works, using any and all treatment resources. Background information What is happening to make me feel so sick? What kinds of treatments can help? Medical (allopathic) treatments Herbal therapy Nutritional approaches Chiropractic and related techniques Homeopathy Traditional Chinese medicine Massage Taking care of your emotions Ayurvedic medicine Some less common approaches.