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The Autoimmune Connection : Essential Information for Women on Diagnosis, Treatment, and Getting On with Your Life

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This book is a must-read for all who have or suspect they or family members or friends have an autoimmune disorder. It is presented in a very organized and efficent manner and is helpful to the patient as well as the health care professional.

It is obvious that the authors have throughly researched all the materials necessary to present accurate, unbiased and essential information. The book is well organized, cross-referenced and covers autoimmune disorders from A to Z.

In addition to the book itself, the resources listed in it are priceless!

Even after being a Myasthenia Gravis patient and coping with the disorder for years, I learned more about Myasthenia by reading this book. I also gave my doctor a copy! Those of us with autoimmune disorders should make it priority read!

The interviews with patients were especially helpful and those with health care professionals were excellent. The possibility of a female having an autoimmune disorder is much higher than that of a male, so the book's main focus is on women. However, it is extremely helpful to men, also.

My family and friends now understand much more about my disease. Congratulations to the authors on a much awaited and much needed book.

I found this book quite helpful in sorting through the maze of symptoms of various autoimmune disorders. It even helped me to self-diagnose one I did not know I had. The information is well laid out; it is comprehensive and current while not overly scientific. The cross reference of other automimmune diseases is particularly useful.

This book is well presented and full of interesting facts. Although aimed at the layman it uses rather a lot of medical terminology and certainly hits hard. If you have the misfortune to have one or more auto immune diseases and want to be informed about the course of your illness, the medication available and the research into new medication and possible cures, I would certainly recommend this book. However it is not for the faint hearted!

Pam Newman

I'm so grateful for this book. It is well layed out, well documented, well researched, easy to read, and easy to understand. Having had this book when I was in the process of getting multiple diagnoses would have been extremely helpful, but it is STILL extremely helpful even now. As new individual symptoms crop up, I am able to quickly turn to any number of sections to see if that symptom profile fits anything I'm dealing with - very helpful in reducing anxiety levels and unnecessary trips to doctors. The index is very helpful - you can find what you're looking for by symptom, by diagnosis, by warning signs, by medication, etc. Treatment options are discussed. The authors include helpful listings for websites, support groups, foundations, and the most current and widely accepted 'definitive' books on the individual diseases covered in this book. Of the books on my shelves, this is the book I would be least likely to part with.

I bought this book when I was first diagnosed with autoimmune disease. It is easy to read and understand. There is so much valuable information that I go back and refer to it several times. I attended a seminar last year on autoimmune diseases where the author was one of the key speakers and it was so informative. The author is educated and very knowledgable in the field of autoimmune disease. One of the best purchases I have ever made.

I gave my rheumatologist a copy of this book. I have not finished it as yet It does make some stunning statements.