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The original "it's all in your head theory", August 8, 2003
By A Customer
This review is from: The Fibromyalgia Relief Handbook (Paperback)
This book is a slap in the face to anyone with FMS. The author is either completely uneducated about FMS, or has decided that his personal views, misguided, uninformed and biased, are correct and the leading experts are idiots.
PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. It will leave you depressed and confused, wondering why you don't feel better after a hot shower (his idea of "pain relief"). This book perpetuates the old stereotypes that FMS is "psychosocial", caused by "stress".
He suggests hypnotherapy and "laugh therapy". His extremely small section on pain control recommends Tylenol or aspirin, and claims narcotics are only for "extreme" cases, and then only for short periods. "The patient who uses narcotics for pain must then expand her activity in exercise and motion to justify the pain remedy". Justify to who?
Please read instead books by actual Physicians, experts, or someone who actually has FMS. This guy has no credentials, has not done any research, has not even interviewed experts in the field. He read a few books, and then proceeded to write his own version of what FMS is and to treat it. This is a 1950's view of the world. He suggests you bring laundry to the living room so "now you can fold the clothes at leisure while you watch a soap".
I could write an entire book on how this book is inaccurate, insulting, and just plain wrong. You be better asking a stranger off the street for advice than reading this book.
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31 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Comprehensive, May 1, 2001
This review is from: The Fibromyalgia Relief Handbook (Paperback)
This book is one of the most helpful for those with fibromyalgia. Chet Cunningham is not out to sell you one specific treatment. He gives you information on many many different ideas and suggestions for you to review and try. This is very helpful because no one treatment is going to help every single person. Another great thing about this book is that he writes it in a simple fashion. So, if you suffer from fibro fog you can still understand what he is telling you! I highly recommend this book to people with fibromyalgia, I doubt you will regret reading it.
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57 of 66 people found the following review helpful:
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You Won't Find a Better "Relief Handbook", May 15, 2001
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This review is from: The Fibromyalgia Relief Handbook (Paperback)
I have suffered the painful symptoms of fibromyalgia for 7 years. But thanks to The Fibromyalgia Relief Handbook I am free of symptoms. No more muscle pain, no more "hurting all over" no more sleepless nights. I feel like a new person. How did this miracle happen? I simply followed a few simple relief tips covered in the book. Simple tips like adding certain nutrients to my diet and eliminating specific foods. What's more the book is written in plain, simple English.
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