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Posted - 04/24/2005 : 07:17:20
Freedom from Fibromyalgia: The 5-Week Program Proven to Conquer Pain
See: http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/item.asp?Item=978081293375&Catalog=Books&Lang=en&Section=books&zxac=1
About this Book
From the Publisher
Free yourself from pain in just five weeks!
If you’re one of the millions of people who suffer from fibromyalgia, you’re all too familiar with the excruciating pain, overwhelming fatigue, and, in severe cases, total incapacitation that this disorder brings. Here at last, from a physician who specializes in treating fibromyalgia, is a clinically proven program that can free you from pain and other symptoms in as little as five weeks -- without drugs, supplements, or special diets.
Freedom from Fibromyalgia presents Dr. Selfridge’s highly effective mind-body approach, organized in a step-by-step, week-by-week program anyone can follow:
* Week 1: Plan to heal
* Week 2: Show your brain and body who’s boss
* Week 3: Teach your brain and body to live with rage
* Week 4: Time to start feeling really good again
* Week 5: How to make freedom from fibromyalgia last
Filled with helpful examples and the voices of patients who have found freedom from fibromyalgia through Dr. Selfridge’s program, this book will put you on the path to lasting healing.
About the Author
Nancy Selfridge, M.D., practices family medicine with the University of Wisconsin Health–Physicians Plus Medical Group in Madison, specializing in treating fibromyalgia.
Franklynn Peterson has written more than twenty self-help books.
From the Critics
“Fibromyalgia is a mind-body disorder that will spread in epidemic fashion if it is not recognized as such. Dr. Selfridge and Mr. Peterson are pioneers and humanitarians, and I salute them for their courage and their devotion to the needs of people who suffer from fibromyalgia.”
-- From the foreword by John Sarno, M.D.
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| pault |
Posted - 05/06/2005 : 17:50:16
Dave is correct Fibromyalgia =T.M.S. |
| Kajsa |
Posted - 05/03/2005 : 12:52:27
I think we should probably just agree to disagree on this one.
Jim
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That is a good line!!
Kajsa |
| Jim1999 |
Posted - 04/28/2005 : 22:20:12
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Originally posted by Kajsa
Still doesn´t like the "5-week" though.
Doesn´t help you to have a long perspective. I think most people with fibromyalgia=severe TMS need much more time.
Oops, you are correct about Dr. Sarno's books. He does say that he finds fibromyalgia harder to treat than forms of TMS. That could mean that Sarno's typical fibromyalgia patient takes longer than 5 weeks.
I still stand by my comment about Dr. Selfridge though. She claims that she does not need to use long-term psychotherapy as often as Sarno does for fibromyalgia patients. If 5 weeks is typical for the patients she sees, then I think it is fine for her call it a 5 week program.
I think we should probably just agree to disagree on this one.
Jim |
| smth416 |
Posted - 04/27/2005 : 19:43:15
Hi Guys,
Dave, I agree with you that there really is nothing more to learn about Fibromyalgia. There is no point in learning more about a fabricated pain disorder. Knowing that it is TMS is enough.
I find it funny that my primary care physician doesn't believe Fibro is caused by the brain, yet prescribed Elavil to treat it(Elavil is an anti-depressant). He claims it helps to relax muscles and will help me sleep. Needless to say I never used the script.
Instead of calling it Fibromyalgia, they could have used an easier word to spell for this "unexplainable" pain disorder, how about "misc" or "etc".-Al |
| Laura |
Posted - 04/26/2005 : 16:34:04
I have looked at Fibromyalgia websites and read books on the subject and I have pretty much every symptom, to a tee. (a friend who thinks she has fibromyalgia was the one that pointed this out to me). I have TMS and I firmly agree with Dave that "fibromyalgia" is TMS. I also agree with Anne - it's too bad more people don't know about Dr. Sarno.
Laura |
| n/a |
Posted - 04/26/2005 : 02:07:35
Twice in the last couple of weeks I have read stories about people who have fibromyalgia, both of them struck me as very sad.
One was in a newspaper who had run a 'Children of Courage' award - one young girl of ten won an award for being her disabled mother's carer. The mother is in a wheelchair and unable to do anything much because of fibromyalgia.
The other was about a child, again aged ten, who had taken part in a charity walk in spite of being disabled by fibromyalgia.
Assuming that the doctors have not missed anything serious in both these cases and it is TMS - the lives of both these girls are being ruined because of the unwillingness of people - doctors and patients - to explore the psychological origins of unexplained pain. |
| Kajsa |
Posted - 04/26/2005 : 01:14:33
"Kajsa: The book doesn't promise that the treatment will work in 5 weeks, but says that 5 weeks is typical. I believe that one of Dr. Sarno's books also mentions that 4-5 weeks is typical, but some people still take longer. "
Yes, I know. I have red the book.
Still doesn´t like the "5-week" though.
Doesn´t help you to have a long perspective. I think most people with fibromyalgia=severe TMS need much more time.
Kajsa |
| Jim1999 |
Posted - 04/25/2005 : 22:54:24
In 2003, I told a fibromyalgia sufferer about my success with Sarno's books. I suggested that she look at HBP. She bought that book, but also bought "Freedom from Fibromyalgia". Using both books, she was able to recover from her fibromyalgia in 5 weeks. She said she liked "Freedom" better, as its more practical than HBP.
smth416: In the medical world, the cause of fibromyalgia is officially unknown. There are plenty of theories, though. Researchers are now generally focused on the central nervous system as the cause of the pain, although most will still not consider a psychological cause.
Kajsa: The book doesn't promise that the treatment will work in 5 weeks, but says that 5 weeks is typical. I believe that one of Dr. Sarno's books also mentions that 4-5 weeks is typical, but some people still take longer. For both Sarno & Selfridge, I think that the typical recover times are based on patients who visit the authors in person. People who use a self-help approach may take longer.
Jim
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| Dave |
Posted - 04/25/2005 : 07:41:40
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Originally posted by smth416
I have suffered from Fibro symptoms in the past and will check out that book. I have eliminated the pain to a large degree in the past but would like to learn more about the disorder -Al
There is really nothing to learn. Fibromyalgia is TMS. To treat it as such, the word should be stricken from your vocabulary and you should make believe you never heard it. |
| Kajsa |
Posted - 04/25/2005 : 01:40:05
"The 5-Week Program"
I have read and benefited from the book.
What I DO NOT like is this “5 week thing”.
I mean how can ever promise that sort of thing. It is like a
quick fix -and for me it is non-professional.
In the book she writes that the time to heal can differ though.
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| smth416 |
Posted - 04/24/2005 : 23:09:28
Being diagnosed with Fibro by my primary care Doc,I am eager to see if the book explains to me the medical world's exact definition of what causes the "disorder"-Fibro. Does the book get into that?
My Doc even admitted that Fibro is a "last resort" diagnosis for him. He says he knows the pain is real, but admits he can't explain the cause. He also admits the medical world's inability to attribute it to a structural problem.
To me it seems like common sense that muscle pain all over the body at once must be TMS. No single disc problem or similar structural change or changes couldn't cause pain to muscles all over the body.
I have suffered from Fibro symptoms in the past and will check out that book. I have eliminated the pain to a large degree in the past but would like to learn more about the disorder -Al |
| Colleen |
Posted - 04/24/2005 : 18:55:13
I was at the Hairdressers on Friday night with my oldest daughter and I picked up a Readers Digest and was reading comments that people had sent in. Someone was responding to an article on Back Pain where it must have been suggested that such pain can be caused from emotions. This person wrote that they were insulted by this and that their depression was caused by the pain they were in, not by anger !
Colleen |
| verdammt |
Posted - 04/24/2005 : 12:48:19
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Originally posted by Scottydog
The reviews on Amazon.com are interesting - some praising the book but 2 trashing it.
Scottydog
The negative reviews are priceless. Desperate clutching at placebos and physical causes. They sure don't like the suggestion that emotions are part of the problem.
The RAGE is palpable. Reminds me of my wife when I suggest her allergies could be TMS. |
| Colleen |
Posted - 04/24/2005 : 11:36:54
I have been reading her book because it deals with pain, other than in the back (my pain being in my feet). I find the book very interesting, especially for those of us who have pain outside of back pain. Mike C had suggested the book to me for just that reason.
Colleen |
| Scottydog |
Posted - 04/24/2005 : 10:40:02
The reviews on Amazon.com are interesting - some praising the book but 2 trashing it.
Scottydog |
| marytabby |
Posted - 04/24/2005 : 08:20:23
I will definitely check that out. I do not have fibro but it's all relative. Thanks |
