I am looking for somegood books to read in terms of coping with a chronic illness and with sjs's etc an sugestions??
If you go to the books/reviews link at the top of the page, it will show some books about Sjogren's. Myself, I have several: The New Sjogren's Syndrome Handbook put out by the Sjogren's Syndrome Foundation; Positive Options for Sjogren's Syndrome by Sue Dyson; The Sjogren's Syndrome Survival Guide by Teri P. Rumpf, Ph.D. and Katherine Morland Hammitt; A Body Out of Balance by Ruth Fremes, M.A. and Nancy Cartheron, M.D.,FACR.
I refer to these four books frequently. Cheesy
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Hi Wiccagal,
If you want to read about autoimmune in general, there is a pretty good book called "The Autoimmune Epidemic" by Donna Jackson Nakazawa. It can be a bit dry, but I feel has a lot of substance (it sure helped show me a possible environment/body connection).
Patze
I recently finished "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping" by Robert M. Sapolsky. The author has a quirky sense of humor and had me hooked from the first page where he talks about not being able to sleep at night and writes, "When it's 2:30 in the morning I always think I have a brain tumor." It's a fascinating look at how the body reacts to stress and illness. Here's the description:
Entertaining explanation of how stress affects the body and what we can do to counteract its effects. Sapolsky (a MacArthur Fellow who divides his time between teaching biological sciences and neuroscience at Stanford and conducting stress research on baboons in Kenya) makes a much- discussed topic seem fresh and new. Using humor, unexpected analogies, and offbeat examples (to illustrate how the brain sends messages to other parts of the body, he slips in a steamy passage from Lady Chatterley's Lover), Sapolsky covers how the stress response affects the cardiovascular, digestive, reproductive, and immune systems; the body's perception of pain; growth; and the aging process.
Deb