[.ca] Fibromyalgia For Dummies (ISBN 0470145021)

Sleep chapter included:
Because sleep is such an important component of fibromyalgia, the authors included an entire chapter on sleep in Fibromyalgia for Dummies (Chapter 14), explaining sleep stages, identifying key sleep problems, offering a self-test so readers can analyze if they may have a sleep problem, and providing practical and helpful suggestions for readers with fibromyalgia and sleep problems

Falls short of real and useful information.:
I think this book fails to supply the most important information to those with fibromyalgia. It makes the dissorder seem so mysterious, when it is not. Much is known about FM that this book skims over or doesn't mention. Sleep is the major component to FM, because of a deficiency of serotonin, preventing us from getting delta sleep, the restorative sleep that revitalizes energy, and heals/relaxes muscles. Check out "Fibromyalgia" by Daniel J. Wallace. That does a much better job.

Dr. Michael L. Johnson:
If you have been newly diagnosed with fibromyalgia, this is one of the first books you should read. This book is very informative and I use it in my lending library at my office along with a few others. Fibromyalgia is REAL!!! Patients are not "faking it to get attention" or "imaging their pain". If some doctors would simply check the FMS patient's neurological signs they(the doctors) would find out that a patient cannot "fake" these important neurological findings!! This is a great book. Dr. Michael L. Johnson, author of "What Do You Do When the Medications Don't Work--A Non-Drug Treatment of Dizziness, Migraine Headaches, Fibromyalgia, and Other Chronic Conditions".

Satisfied:
The book arrived in good time, and it was in excellent condition.

Great job!:
The authors neeed to be congratulated on a wonderful, informative and thorough book full of practical information and tips that can be put to practical use on a daily basis. A cut above the rest!