All about Fibromyalgia

A Guide for Patients and Their Families

By: Daniel J. Wallace, Janice Brock Wallace

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Hardcover | 1 April 2002 | Edition Number 2

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This year, six million Americans--most of them women--will go to their doctors, complaining of an illness they have no name for. The majority will be turned away or treated for depression; the few who persist will go to an average of four doctors before they receive the correct diagnosis: fibromyalgia.
In their earlier Making Sense of Fibromyalgia, noted medical writer Janice Wallace and Dr. Daniel Wallace, a leading expert on this disorder, provided a comprehensive guide--for both patients and professionals--to this little known and poorly understood syndrome. Now, in All About Fibromyalgia, the Wallaces provide a thoroughly revised and updated version of that highly successful volume, incorporating a wealth of new information. This edition provides the current understanding of the disease as well as the latest drug treatments--all laid out in clear and accessible language.
As in the previous volume, the authors provide a detailed, yet clear explanation of the disease. Fibromyalgia, they explain, is a form of chronic neuromuscular pain, a pain-amplification syndrome brought on by abnormal interactions between hormones, the immune system, neurotransmitters, and the autonomic nervous system. Sometimes the syndrome occurs spontaneously; in most cases, the authors write, it is associated with trauma, stress, such conditions as lupus and hypothyroidism, and over forty microbes, from hepatitis to Epstein-Barr to Lyme disease.
Drawing on actual cases to illustrate their points, the authors help break through the isolation that patients often feel when doctors misdiagnose or simply ignore their symptoms. All About Fibromyalgia addresses a desperate need for information on this disease and offers reassurance to patients and their families.

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Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Fibromyalgia Made Simple: a Parable	p. xiii
All About Fibromyalgia	p. 1
The Whys and Wherefores of Fibromyalgia	p. 3
How Our Understanding of Fibromyalgia Evolved	p. 5
What is Fibromyalgia?	p. 9
Who Gets Fibromyalgia and Why?	p. 14
Basic Science and Fibromyalgia	p. 21
Why and How Do We Hurt?	p. 23
What's Wrong with My Muscles?	p. 34
How Do Stress, Sleep, Hormones, and the Immune System Interact and Relate to Fibromyalgia?	p. 38
What is the Autonomic Nervous System?	p. 45
How and Where the Body Can Be Affected by Fibromyalgia	p. 51
Generalized Complaints	p. 53
"i'M Stiff and Achy"-musculoskeletal Complaints	p. 56
Tingles, Shocks, Wires, and Neurologic Complaints	p. 59
Insights into Insides: Chest, Cardiovascular, and Other Concerns	p. 65
The Clinical Spectrum of Fibromyalgia	p. 71
What Are the Regional and Localized Forms of Fibromyalgia?	p. 73
What Conditions Are Associated with Fibromyalgia?	p. 79
Controversial Syndromes and Their Relationship to Fibromyalgia	p. 94
The Evaluation of Fibromyalgia Patients	p. 101
What Happens at a Fibromyalgia Consultation?	p. 103
Are You Sure It's Really Fibromyalgia?	p. 110
I'M Not Crazy!	p. 118
Improving Your Quality of Life	p. 125
Influences of Lifestyle and Environment on Fibromyalgia	p. 127
The Influence of Exercise and Rehabilitation on the Mind and Body	p. 135
How to Overcome Fibromyalgia	p. 147
Medicines and Other Therapies Used for Fibromyalgia	p. 161
Medicines That Work for Fibromyalgia	p. 163
Drugs That Are Useful in Selected Fibromyalgia Patients	p. 175
Behind the Hype: Unproven, Experimental, Herbal, and Innovative Remedies	p. 191
Work and Disability	p. 203
Where Are We Headed?	p. 211
What's the Prognosis?	p. 213
The Future Holds a Lot of Hope	p. 216
Fibromyalgia Resource Materials	p. 221
Fibromyalgia: a Complementary Medicine Doctor's Perspective	p. 229
Glossary	p. 235
Index	p. 247
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