Coping with Crohn's Disease: Manage Your Physical Symptoms and Overcome the Emotional Challenges [Paperback]

Amy B. Trachter (Author), Henry Wodnicki (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 10, 2001

Crohn's Disease is a chronic and incurable gastrointestinal inflammatory illness of unknown origins. With this new book, discover how to maximize your relationships with medical professionals and make informed decisions about medication and existing surgical options while you deal with Crohnis Disease.

Discover strategies for coping with the daily physical affects of the illness, including how to stay prepared during physical activities and traveling and how to successfully manage pain. A variety of approaches are provided to help you explore the significant emotional and psychological challenges that accompany the disorder. The book offers suggestions to help you transform your attitudes and expectations about the disease and to gain the support of friends, family, and coworkers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 175 pages
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications; 1st edition (December 10, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572242655
• ISBN-13: 978-1572242654
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #781,863 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely helpful!, July 16, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Coping with Crohn's Disease: Manage Your Physical Symptoms and Overcome the Emotional Challenges (Paperback)

This is the most comprehensive and helpful book I have found on Crohn's disease. It is specific to the disease, not a catch all for all GI problems like most books. There are a lot of useful tips for everyday living and dealing with annoying problems that come with the disease. This book is great for patients, physicians, and other clinicians who work work Crohn's patients. Highly recommended!!!

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive review of Crohn's disease, July 11, 2002

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This review is from: Coping with Crohn's Disease: Manage Your Physical Symptoms and Overcome the Emotional Challenges (Paperback)

I am a clinical health psychologist working with patients with a variety of illnesses and I found Dr. Trachter's book to be a comprehensive review of the salient issues facing patients with Crohn's disease. Not only would I recommend this book to my patients, but I found it to be a useful supplement to my own knowledge base regarding Crohn's disease and IBD.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Coping with Crohn's Disease: Manage Your Physical Symptoms, February 3, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Coping with Crohn's Disease: Manage Your Physical Symptoms and Overcome the Emotional Challenges (Paperback)

Out of the 5 books I own on Crohn's Disease, I find this book one of the better ones as the topic of this book is one that is not covered as much in other CD books. Managing your EMOTIONAL symptoms is an extremely important part of managing this disease and the information in the book is very helpful and is humorous as well.