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Immune Dysfunction: Winning My Battle Against Toxins, Illness & the Medical Establishment

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Immune Dysfunction: Winning My Battle Against Toxins, Illness & The Medical Establishment is the personal and compelling story of Judith Lopez and her experiences with medical mismanagement and malpractice. Judith documents her struggle with a mystery malady that was life threatening. All the while her doctors sought to discount chronic fatigue syndrome, yeast syndrome, and environmental illnesses as merely sociogenic problems, the result of a mass hysteria or psychosomatic illness. After a twenty year battle with an illness the medical community proclaimed to be non-existent, Judith finally connected with Doctor Vincent Marinkovich, a Stanford professor and authority on clinical immunology and allergy, who was able to understand and treat her symptoms. Immune Dysfunction is a powerful and engaging medical memoir and highly recommended reading for anyone suffering from any form of environmentally generated illness whose physicians are trying to palm off as a form of hysteria or mental illness, as well as medical students, health workers, and practicing physicians concerned with the proper diagnosis and treatment of the rapidly growing numbers of men, women, and children who are experiencing environmentally driven immune system dysfunctions.

I could not put this book down until I read it from cover to cover! Judith Lopez has been able to describe through her own story what it is like for many of us who suffer from immune dysfunction of one kind or another. Even though her story is her own, it is representative of my own and of many others I know who suffer from immune illnesses. For example the ups and downs of the illness, how severe they can be, and that it is often difficult to identify what brings on the illness as it can change each time. I recommend this to those who suffer, to their friends and family for a perspective into the world of immune dysfunction. Judith has given us all a great gift!

What a God-send this book has been to me! Although I could not relate to every symptom the author experienced during her long, long battle with Immune Dysfunction, I could certainly relate to the heartbreak and isolation that she felt. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has suffered the immeasurable pain of being so sick that you cannot function and yet having people doubt the validity of the illness from which you suffer on a daily basis. It is an unbelievable phenomenon for those of us who KNOW that something is physically WRONG with us; reading "Immune Dysfunction" will show you that YOU and I are NOT ALONE. Please buy this book, you'll feel better!

After having been shunned by the medical community, Judith's book let me know that I am not alone in my search for answers to my debilitating illness. Thank you Judith for having the courage to write about your experiences.

This book is the story of many people, told by someone who experienced what many others experience; that is a failure by medics to LISTEN and BELIEVE when someone says they are ill, they are not making it up.
Written with a sense of frustration that whilst we are ill and medics dont listen to us we are loosing years from our lives and our family and friends are also loosing the life we should be sharing with them.
It is worth reading and there are some interesting facts in there which may be relevant to others.