Mayo Clinic on Fibromyalgia: Strategies to Take Back Your Life Paperback – Illustrated, September 24, 2019

Wonderful book and I learned a lot about my fiber myalgia. I've learned more from the book than I have in the twenty years that i've had fibermyalgia. Easy to read too. I have gotten a lot of books red. ResearchAnd none of them, are like this book, I would recommend it to everybody who wants to learn about fibromyalgia.

The book's title said it contained strategies to take back your life, and this description was 100% true. I went from being in unbearable pain to learning strategies I now use to keep the pain at a more tolerable level and feel like I am living my life and not just watching it go by while I am in pain. Thanks to the authors of this book, it was a lifesaver for my life with fibromyalgia.

This book helped me understand the condition better and not feel so bad about my diagnosis. Most tips and things I already knew like diet and exercise but reading them to my spouse helped him understand more about the condition. I recommend this book.

I paid full price for the hardback version . Very disappointed that the whole book is makes up and underlined in pen

The Mayo Clinic writers did a great job presenting the information and strategies for dealing with fibromyalgia. This book is a keeper! Great information, tips, advice, etc.... And easy to read format. They give a lot of great information on dealing with this sometimes debilitating chronic condition. This book would also be a good read for family and caretakers - so they can more fully understand the condition and how they can help as well as handle how it impacts them.

I have read the book and also listen to the audible, which I would highly recommend. Though some readers found the first few chapters of the history of fibromyalgia boring or of no value I found it just the opposite, it explains that fibromyalgia has been documented for many many years although not named or named but not understood well, still is not well understood. Mayo in Rochester has a fibromyalgia department, fibromyalgia is a real disease although the wider public still believes it is not real. I am fortunate to live near Mayo and was diagnosed there. But, to be up front I did not believe I had it for many years. You usually start showing symptoms after an event, mine was breast cancer. I hope more money, press and research is thrown at this life changing disease, maybe then I will feel I can talk about to friends and family. I think they feel like I am crazy!

One can tell this book is written by doctors and not by someone with fibro.The first part on the medical history of how 'fibromyalgia' came to be identified and called this nearly caused me to put the book down. While it might be useful to older doctors it just wasted valuable space for readers.On the super plus side - the list was absolutely spot on and well described. The exercises at the end also seemed well geared to folks with fibro (so many physios and exercise practitioners think that given a person with fibro a 45-minute a day cardio work out is the way to go. Ie. NO understanding of what is going on with the fibro body.)In the middle - thankfully it did mention things such as the effects of food that we eat, the need for exercise when able, taking extra care of oneself and that this is a syndrome and can many, many causes. These were nice summaries and would be useful to people newly diagnosed and those around them.Not so great -1. Being told to plan. Ha, ha. Most fibro sufferers used to be high achievers, Type A, go getters who probably know how to plan their lives better than most doctors could ever hope to.... the whole problem with fibromyalgia is that you CANNOT plan anymore. Fibro attacks don't work to a schedule so you need to stop beating yourself up about not being able to do what you planned (and used to be able to do without any hassles previously). You need to LISTEN to your body and work within the cycles of what is happening to you.2. Being told to go out, but only for half-an-hour. Yeah, right. Just getting in clean, dressed, travelling and then the 30-minutes at an event with an overload of stimuli can be well beyond some fibros. And who only goes to an event to that long, never mind expecting your family or companions to do so? If you have bad fibro, start getting more social again by asking friends and family to come over to you and bring something with them. And then don't worry that you no longer have the immaculate home you used to have....So, overall a pretty reasonable book and worth buying for a straight-forward read about this condition in a media environment that is now becoming crowded with some pretty off-the-wall ideas by folks making a lot of money from sick people.)

Great book.