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Title: The Endometriosis Sourcebook by Mary Lou Ballweg, Endometriosis Association, Dan Martin ISBN: 0-8092-3263-4 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.13 (30 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: this book lacks information on important topics
Comment: I picked up this book soon after I was diagnosed with endo. Although it had some good information, it lacked comprehensive information on the newest treatments for the disease, as well as any real information on new directions in clinical research. It frightens me to think that some women will pick up this book and not look further. The book fails to provide information on how women dealing with chronic pain from this disease can obtain the comprehensive, personalized type of help they need. Furthermore, the book fails to explore adequately how an increasing number of endometriosis surgeons are treating severe cases of endometriosis very much like cancer; both diseases need to be treated similarly surgically because both diseases require resection of both disease and the healthy margins surrounding the disease if a patient is to have any chance of a successful outcome. Perhaps most disconcerting is that this book does little to inspire or motivate women to become active consumers in their own health care - much more could be said about the continuing failure of the medical profession to diagnose and treat this disease as it should and a woman's need to respond accordingly. And, much more could be said about pain clinics and the pain specialists that can be the key to a woman learning to function with this disease. I eventually found Jennifer Lewis's book Endometriosis: One Women's Journey, and for the first time I no longer felt alone; I felt inspired to take real responsibility for my own health care; and I learned that there were pain professionals out there who could help give me my life back. For a sourcebook, this book is missing some really important pieces. It's okay for what it does, but be sure to supplement your reading with other books and materials.
Rating: 1
Summary: conflict of interest
Comment: I don't know how an association that is majorly funded by a pharmaceutical company, which touts its medicines as good for endo, can write an impartial book on the subject.
The pharmaceutical company? It makes Lupron. Check out the Lupron Victims Network. Please be careful. These medications hurt. I should know. I was diagnosed with this disease in 2001 and have had surgeries for it.
Rating: 3
Summary: Disappointing and dry
Comment: I thought this book would be more "down-to-earth" informative, but it is actually a collection of articles on endometriosis written by doctors and experts on the disease. I found it hard to read and not as instructive for the average sufferer as I had hoped. I did like the "Joe with Endo" cartoons throughout the book depicting what it would be like for a man to suffer with this malady, but I found most of the articles to be more like what one would find in a medical journal.
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Title: Endometriosis: A Key to Healing Through Nutrition by Michael Vernon, Dian Shepperson Mills, Dian Shepperson Mills ISBN: 0007133103 Publisher: Thorsons Pub Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Coping With Endometriosis: Sound, Compassionate Advice for Alleviating the Physical and Emotional Symptoms of This Frequently Misunderstood Illenss by Robert Phillips, Glenda Motta ISBN: 1583330747 Publisher: Avery Penguin Putnam Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Endometriosis : The Complete Reference for Taking Charge of Your Health by Mary Lou Ballweg ISBN: 0071412484 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 15 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Natural Treatment of Fibroid Tumors and Endometriosis by Susan M. Lark ISBN: 0879836903 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 11 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: Overcoming Endometriosis: New Help from the Endometriosis Association by Mary Lou Ballweg, Susan Deutsch, Camran Nezhat ISBN: 0865531900 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: November, 1987 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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