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I HAVE IBS...Now What?!!!: A Comprehensive Guide for Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (English and Spanish Edition)

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As a health educator who works in the field of gastroenterology, I highly recommend this book. Dr. Ashkan Farhadi has written an exceptionally informative book for patients to learn about irritable bowel syndrome in an easy question and answer format. This book utilizes many of the medical terms that a patient will hear in their doctor visits. The book covers many aspects of the disease, not only the basics for the newly diagnosed, but includes the latest research and information about alternative treatments for IBS.

Dr. Farhadi has also created a website for patients with further information and the ability to ask additional questions which were not addressed in the book. [...]

From a patient's perspective, I found the question/answer format to be very helpful. I did appreciate the inclusion of medical terminology, even though the text is meant for a consumer audience. I often find that some patient education texts tend to "dumb down" their information for the average medical consumer, but I don't find this practice helpful. The inclusion of actual medical terms is very useful to the patient who may be hearing these terms during a patient visit.

Overall, the text is excellently written and very helpful.

The Q & A format of this book makes it extremely useful and easy to understand IBS. You can easily jump from one section to another and in less than an hour you know more about IBS than the previous weeks that you had been reading articles online and researching Google links.

This book also gives you a simple vocabulary to communicate your symptoms with your doctor. It feels great finishing the book, and knowing that you are not really sick and you will be fine soon -- even if IBS comes back again some time (i.e., IBS causes discomfort, but does not indicate a serious health problem).

The book also mentions some symptoms that you haven't even noticed before, which justifies even more that you have IBS and nothing more serious. For example, not losing weight or not waking up in the middle of the night.

My husband also skimmed through the book in no time and we are both very comfortable knowing about IBS. Dr. Farhadi's book is truly a great book and I recommend it to people with IBS or people whose friends and family suffer from IBS.

I have had chronic constipation for 15+ years and found the material in this book very relevant to my situation. The question and answer format is excellent and insightful. You can tell they are based on real questions. I felt like I was having a lengthy conversation with Dr. Farhadi as opposed to reading a book. I am glad to know there are still treatments that can help me even though I have been struggling for so many years. I am optimistic about the future yet realistic after learning how complex the bowel is and how to manage my problem.

I highly recommend this book to anyone with IBS. Its Q & A format along with all of the visual tables and flow charts make it very easy for patients, and those closest to them, to understand this very irritating illness.

This book deepened my understanding of IBS and reinforced the importance of my role in feeling better. I very much appreciated Dr. Farhadi's effort to make clinical information more easily understandable, particularly through the question and answer style and the "real-life" examples. The graphics in the book are helpful and inviting as well. This educational book will not only save time for the doctor and patient, but will also play an important part in helping the person living with IBS to feel more active in their own well-being.

Dr. Farhadi explain IBS very well in very simple english to be understandable for everone. I recommend to this read this book if you have or think you hav IBS.

The writing style was very easy to read and generally stayed away from too much jargon.The only tricky part for me was the more "medical" questions but the diagrams were useful, and I could just flip back to the diagram to get myself straight. Though it was tricky, I liked having the detailed biological information - it reinforces the concept that IBS is not just in my "head" so to speak.

I have found it very useful as I learn to manage my own symptoms and explain it to others.

I have been struggling with digestive issues for about six years now. I've been to a number of different doctors as well as tried many different treatments. I believe that this book has an excellent analysis of IBS, using a much broader spectrum to encompass many different digestive disorders. It is written very well, sticking to the facts and making medical jargon understandable. I think that anyone trying to deal with digestive issues would benefit from reading this book. It gave me a whole new way to look at my problems and lots of new avenues to pursue with regard to maintaining a healthy, happy stomach.

Dr Farhadi's guide is great! All of the information was so helpful. I learned how to manage my illness instead of it managing me. I feel like I have gotten my life back.