Taming the Beast: A Guide to Conquering Fibromyalgia

This book has confirmed the path that I've been walking down with my fibromyalgia "nightmare". This last year I have had to do a lot of what I call medical background writing on myself to figure out where this all began. It's a multiple list of things that have had me end up where I am currently with fibromyalgia. Before this year, the two years prior is when things had gotten seriously bad to where I would end up in bed for a week at a time due to the pain, the fog etc. What kicked in for me was the support my husband had shown me and him simply telling me, "Honey, I know you're overwhelmed but what you need to do, just for you, is 1 thing a day. Just one. Any of the things on your list, it doesn't matter, just do one." And I began pushing through. This also started me on a research endeavor to find out just WHAT I could do instead of chewing pain medicines, which I refused to do anything more than aspirin. I fought with my husband and dr's about that as well. I just did not see the need to throw bad on top of what was already bad.In my researching I was putting together things like eating whole foods, cutting out things. Last summer I cut out bread. I am a bread fiend and this took me 2 months in doing since I also love to bake it as well. Just doing that alone cut my inflammation flare ups in half! So I searched more on treatments instead of just physical therapy. My best friend from high school had told me of his wife's treatments with a very good chiropractor and this chiropractor's outlook. I was simply amazed. So I began checking into that and acupuncture along with various vitamins. However I did not have all of the information and trying to find a balanced intake can be disastrous on the internet.In this guide here you have it all. EVERY SINGLE THING! This guide are the steps I've been living and it completed my knowledge of the things that have been eluding me these last 6 months in my searching. Now I can fully go into this knowing that I've been walking down the right road for this. My symptoms have gotten a lot better just in this last year of my own research findings and this guide will help me to further walk down the road to entire healing. I'm 100% sure of it. Not only does it give you a guide in the things you need, it also goes over the thinking and how to deal with others. One thing that stuck out to me was when I've dealt with people in my life who have been negative about this towards me. I've been called lazy, fat and told that I needed to do this or that and those this or that's did not EVER work! Anyways, that part really struck home as I've had to eliminate people I've known for a very long time out of my life. Since then things have actually gotten better in my mental attitude instead of having negativity thrown my way daily by these people and my thoughts are not lingering there, it's helped with overall outlook which, in turn, helps me to heal faster and also have better mental clarity.

As a person living with this beast. I found alot of useful information in this book and gave me hope.

I have been dealing with fibro for 15 years and the many other health issues that most people with fibro deal with (thyroid disorder, arthritis, migraines etc). I can't say enough good things about this book! I especially loved that mine has large print and easy to read. :)But it truly explains why this is happening to your body and how to feel better. My chiropractor has been telling me things for two years and I just started changing things with my diet/vitamins and can already tell a big difference. I could write a book here but no need to. Im slowly getting off some toxic medications :). I'm actually doing my first cleanse right now and can't believe that I have been able to wake up better and get out of bed. The book couldn't have came at a better time for me because I wasn't ready to make the changes I needed to make before. I really didn't believe that eliminating certain foods, chemicals, etc could really make that big of a difference. And it isn't even all just about the food chemicals etc, but that's where I am making my biggest changes changes right now. I have been poked,prodded, taken every medication and had more needles in me than I can count! I wanted a cure and wanted a Dr to fix me. LolBut after 15 years it has come down to ME doing some of the fixing. Not meaning that I hadn't done things myself, but never been this disciplined in the food area. Sorry,I started writing a book! I'm not saying all this for you to buy this book, however I know you won't be disappointed! Everything finally makes perfect sense and that's half the battle! If my Chiro hasn't read this, I'm so buying him a copy. He will just tell me. "I told ya so". Lol

Finally a book on Fibromyalgia that is complete. I have lived with this for over 20 years. I, like many others have "tried it all" to manage the pain and the fatigue. I read the book with skeptic logic because most things I have tried either have not helped at all or have worked to some degree, but not enough to be as active as I would like to be. All the issues with fibro fluctuate so much. I will say that changing my diet (Whole30) has helped with the energy as has the light box that my rheumatologist recommended. This book had researched many of the things I had read about, but with a little more information...ie...that there are several types of fibro..that made so much sense. It is very thorough which I liked. If you are new to fibo, this will help you a lot. If you have the money you have the option of setting up an appointment and getting tested and to find out which aspects of the body functions are being affect and by what. Then the help to set up a plan on treatment.The only thing I was disappointed in is that you can no longer get the at home tests which would help determine which aspect of the fibro you are most affected by. So, if you don't have the money it would cost to go see Dr. Katinka you are at a loss. I hope they can at some point change that.

If you read one book on fibromyalgia this is it. Packed full of useful information. Well written and even a fibromyalgia sufferer can read it. I simply followed the advice and am already benefitting in my health from following the advice in this book. Thank you for writing this. I can also deal with other's attitudes too.

fantastic reading