The Fibromyalgia Relief Book: 213 Ideas for Improving Your Quality of Life - Softcover

Williamson, Miryam E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802775535 ISBN 13: 9780802775535

Publisher: Walker Books, 1998

Synopsis

The Fibromyalgia Relief Book is the first self-help book for the 12 million people who suffer from fibromyalgia (FM) and for those who care for them. Miryam Ehrlich Williamson, who wrote the best-selling Fibromyalgia: A Comprehensive Approach, has spent two years consulting health professionals and hundreds of fellow FM sufferers to assemble the most extensive and useful advice to improve your quality of life. Her 213 proven pointers cover all aspects of your life and include:

* dietary changes and supplements to alleviate symptoms
* remedies and modifications to help you sleep
* how to make household and leisure activities bearable
* tips for lifting your mood and strengthening personal relationships
* strategies for making your job FM-friendly
* how to develop mind/body techniques to control pain, relieve stress, and oversome memory lapses

The Fibromyalgia Relief Book is the key to a more comfortable, rewarding lifestyle for anyone who has FM or the many illnesses associated with the syndrome, and is an important resource for anyone caring for or living with an FM sufferer. It is sure to change people's lives.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"This book is full of useful advice for living better with fibromyalgia. Only someone like Miryam Williamson, who's been there and understands, could have written it."-- Timothy McCall, M.D., author of Examining Your Doctor

"This is an invaluable book for those who suffer from fibromyalgia and chronic pain and fatigue. It's full of wise and gentle ways to make life more comfortable and productive .... Miryam Williamson has filled a much-needed gap in current publications by laying out simply and completely a guide to a better way of life for those in need."-- R. Paul St. Amand, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harbor General UCLA

The Fibromyalgia Relief Book is the first self-help book for the 12 million people who suffer from fibromyalgia (FM) and for those who care for them. Miryam Ehrlich Williamson, who wrote the best-selling Fibromyalgia: A Comprehensive Approach, has spent two years consulting health professionals and hundreds of fellow FM sufferers to assemble the most extensive and useful advice to improve your quality of life. Her 213 proven pointers cover all aspects of your life and include:

* dietary changes and supplements to alleviate symptoms
* remedies and modifications to help you sleep
* how to make household and leisure activities bearable
* tips for lifting your mood and strengthening personal relationships
* strategies for making your job FM-friendly
* how to develop mind/body techniques to control pain, relieve stress, and oversome memory lapses

The Fibromyalgia Relief Book is the key to a more comfortable, rewarding lifestyle for anyone who has FM or the many illnesses associated with the syndrome, and is an important resource for anyone caring for or living with an FM sufferer. It is sure to change people's lives.

Miryam Ehrlich Williamson won an American Medical Writers Association Will Solimene Award for Excellence in Medical Communication for Fibromyalgia: A Comprehensive Approach. She is a technical journalist and a charter member of the on-line Fibromyalgia Discussion Group. Ms. Williamson lives in Warwick, Massachusetts. Mary Anne Saathoff, R.N., B.S.N., is president of the Fibromyalgia Alliance of America in Columbus, Ohio.

About the Author:

Miryam Ehrlich Williamson won an American Medical Writers Association Will Solimene Award for Excellence in Medical Communication for Fibromyalgia: A Comprehensive Approach. She is a technical journalist and a charter member of the on-line Fibromyalgia Discussion Group. Ms. Williamson lives in Warwick, Massachusetts.

Mary Anne Saathoff, R.N., B.S.N., is president of the Fibromyalgia Alliance of America in Columbus, Ohio.

About this edition

• Publisher: Walker Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0802775535
• ISBN 13: 9780802775535
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 226