Today my daughter and I share predominately symptom free, healthful lives. I am now able to do, at 45 years of age, more than I was able to do at 30 years of age, and I feel like a "million dollars" most of the time. My daughter is as active and energetic as any other "normal" 13-year-old. It hasn't been easy, there were no "magic pills" to take to make the symptoms go away. There were, however, many result oriented steps which were discovered, which lead to a natural, healthful control of the symptoms of fibromyalgia.
This book, Fibromyalgia Cookbook: A Daily Guide to Becoming Healthy Again, has no recipes in the classical sense of the term. It does, however, have one dramatic life changing "recipe". This recipe gives you back your life. A wide variety of information is provided covering the areas of sleep, pain, exercise and much more. And through the use of a 120-day step by step guide, you will move from whatever your condition is now to the beginnings of a new found healthful existence. The guide includes a daily checklist which keeps you on course and motivated, regardless of how "foggy" your brain is! In addition, each day has a page dedicated to a journal which you will keep in order to document the gradual and joyously positive, progress. I found journalizing to be particularly important to me, as I would sometimes forget how much progress I had made. For example there was a time that I could not make the bed without sitting down to rest before, during and after the project. Through journalizing I was able to see how I gradually required fewer rest periods until they eventually became unnecessary.
Be prepared to work at your recovery and to dig in for the long haul. It took many years to get to the point of devastation that I once was at, so it is not surprising that it took almost a year for me to become totally symptom free. The time and effort was well worth it. I will never go back to those symptoms again and you won't want to either!
