Book: FOODS THAT HELP WIN THE BATTLE AGAINST FIBROMYALGIA

By  Deirdre Rawlings, ND, PhD, MH, CNC

Fibromyalgia syndrome is a disorder characterized by chronic muscular pain with tender points in joints, muscles, tendons, and other soft tissues.  In addition to pain and tenderness, fibromyalgia engulfs patients in a downward, reinforcing cycle of unrestorative sleep, fatigue, morning stiffness, headaches, and dizziness, trouble with concentration, depression, anxiety, and inactivity.

Foods that Win the Battle against Fibromyalgia is a book, which demonstrates the important role nutrition plays in the treatment of the condition because the right foods have a healing effect and have been shown to revitalize the sufferer.

Although considerable international investigation has been devoted to understanding FM, no single cause factor has yet been identified.  The word syndrome is a name given to a collection of symptoms for which physicians really don’t know the cause of the condition; you could call it a waste basket diagnosis, (a term given by physicians). 

By  Deirdre Rawlings, ND, PhD, MH, CNC

Currently, there are no laboratory tests that can confirm a diagnosis of fibromyalgia. For the most part, fibromyalgia sufferers experience a variety of debilitating symptoms that seem to worsen over time and which often result in an endless line of doctor’s visits that bring neither relief nor answers. Fibromyalgia patients often go through a range of various prescriptions and over-the-counter medications which includes sleeping pills, anti-depressants, SRI’s, (non-steroidal) NSAIDs, and pain killers, as they search for understanding, reliable answers and proper care and treatment.

Why Fibromyalgia is a Syndrome and Not a Disease..

By  Deirdre Rawlings, ND, PhD, MH, CNC

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic complex syndrome that causes pain, stiffness, and tenderness of the muscles, tendons, joints, and other soft tissues.  In FM, there is a generalized disturbance of the way in which pain is processed by the body whereby ordinary non-painful sensations are experienced as pain sensations.  In addition to pain and tenderness, fibromyalgia is also characterized by fatigue, restless sleep, awakening feeling tired, morning stiffness, headaches, and dizziness, trouble with concentration, depression, anxiety, and inactivity.  It has been associated with stress, tension, trauma, overexertion, hormone deficiency diseases (particularly thyroid disease), and alterations in brain chemistry, anemia, parasites, and viral infections.