Chronic Muscle Pain Syndrome: The 7-Step Plan to Recognize and Treat It - and Feel Better All Over Review

I don't recall exactly when I began to struggle to read your 1989 book, "Chronic Muscle Pain Syndrome". I had bought it at the library bookstore after the library discarded it. Eventually, I was so ill, I became bed ridden and brain fog was so bad I couldn't remember much of anything I read. Your book was on the shelf beside my bed along with a highlighting marker and a pen. As I began to read, I remember what Oprah describes today as "AhHa moments". Your book gave me hope. I could only digest a page at a time; I would highlight things which applied to me so I could later show them to my primary care physician. Then I would roll over and sleep; I'd awaken and read another page; then, I'd roll over and sleep some more; and, so it went as I read a page then slept; read another page and slept some more . . . . I was so fortunate to have a physician at the time who would "listen" to me. By now, I was using an electric scooter for mobility each time I visited the VA Hospital in Washington, DC. I was in too much pain and too weak to walk the halls; I looked like a living dead person because I was so pale--colorless. I recall my blood pressure being very low each time it was taken.

I took your book to Dr. RW (my former Primary Care physician-now retired), along with all the page number reference notes I had written inside the front cover; I remember him looking at it briefly and saying, "There are some tests we can run. . . " and he did have many tests done. When we were done, he referred me to a fibromyalgia research clinic being conducted by Daniel J. Clauw, MD, at Georgetown University. They found I had "all eighteen and then some" of the major points. My physician from the Air Force, Dr. Frank R. Lecocq, where I had spent three months hospitalized at Wilford Hall Hospital, San Antonio, Texas, (either 1964 or 1965) had remained in touch with me after we were both discharged from the military; ultimately, he went on to teach at Duke University Medical School until his untimely death from a heart attack on the tennis courts one Saturday. He had spoken to me on the phone that morning and I told him he sounded "tired"; I had no idea he would die later that day and I would never get to speak to him again. * Dr. Lecocq had taught me the importance of finding a physician who would "listen to" me. I've learned what rare gems these skills are in the field of medicine today.

Now, I had a firm diagnosis of something which made sense instead of the long documented, "adrenal hyperplasia, androgenic type, with psychoneurotic reaction". Ultimately, I had that misdiagnosis corrected and revised to the current diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. All of thanks to your very informative book.

This book is a "must read" if you haven't read any books about fibrositis/fibromyalgia. It is a great place to start with information still valid today. The word fibromyalgia wasn't used then.

Thank you, Dr. Davidson, for your book and for giving me the information I needed to help me keep moving forward with living and setting goals for a future.

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