Chronic Illness

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In this inspiring memoir, Emily Falcon chronicles her lifelong journey with a congenital cardiac condition. In 1982, at seven weeks old, she had a heart attack that destroyed 40 percent of the left side of her heart. This was her entry into a world of multiple cardiac procedures, surgeries, hospitalizations, and a later diagnosis of glaucoma. Balancing these serious conditions defined her life.

Can you really cure chronic pain without drugs, surgery, or therapy? Surprisingly, often the answer is yes. While chronic pain can have a physical cause, this book, written by a leading UK physiotherapist and chronic pain specialist, reveals how very real, even debilitating, pain can frequently be caused by our brain in response to repressed or avoided emotions as a result of current and even past experiences. This process is at the root of many common complaints.

As many as 2.5 million Americans suffer from ME/CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and fibromyalgia), devastating chronic illnesses that to date has no test for diagnosis. A lesser-known condition, hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, considered to be a genetic connective tissue disease, affects every system of the body, particularly the nervous system. These debilitating diseases can be so difficult to properly diagnose that patients, often bedridden with pain, exhaustion, and many other symptoms, go through further hell when they are not believed that they’re sick.

Have you just been diagnosed with a chronic illness, and you don't know where to turn? Or, perhaps someone close to you has just received a diagnosis, and you would like to learn how to support them in their chronic illness journey. Either way, this book is for you! 50 Things to Know About Chronic Illness by Mara Price-Quinn offers 50 great tips on how to deal with your chronic illness or how to help and support your loved ones who deal with chronic illness. You can hear what it is like to experience a chronic illness from someone who has a chronic illness herself and find ways to improve your quality of life.

Untreated or misdiagnosed pain is an epidemic among children. Nearly one out of every five children in the United States suffers chronic pain, while 30 to 40 percent of children over age twelve report feeling some form of pain in any given week. Yet only a small fraction of children receive appropriate treatment, increasing the risk that they will struggle with pain later in life. But, as Rachel Rabkin Peachman and Anna Wilson show, if we give pain the attention it deserves early in life, we can minimize short-term distress and halt the development of long-term chronic pain problems.

Do you feel exhausted, run down, and stressed out all the time? Do you have trouble sleeping well at night and wake up feeling exhausted? More and more of us have these problems. In this groundbreaking new book, best-selling Inflammation Syndrome author Jack Challem tackles a new kind of syndrome tied to nutrition, adrenal fatigue, and thyroid problems. Challem explains what the Fatigue Syndrome is and spells out how the Five Circles of Fatigue contribute to it.

While it might seem unusual to see a book title on the subject of offering Christian encouragement to thyroid patients, it really shouldn't be considered unusual at all. Statistics by reputable polling organizations have shown that 75% of the U.S. population claims to be of the Christian faith and some medical estimates have revealed that over 30-million Americans are experiencing thyroid diseases.

In Sleepyhead, science writer Henry Nicholls uses his own experience with chronic narcolepsy as a gateway to better understanding the cryptic, curious, and relatively uncharted world of sleep disorders. Charming, eye-opening, and deeply humanizing, Sleepyhead will help us all uncover the secrets of a good night's sleep.

In this groundbreaking book, you will find the best of both worlds, bridging the gap between conventional and holistic medicine. Cough Cures is not just about coughs - it's about natural alternatives for antibiotics, cough syrups, pain and sleeping medications, even antacids. Dr. Gus Ferrer a renowned pulmonologist and Burke Lennihan RN, a certified practitioner in holistic medicine, bring you a book packed with natural cures and guides to the best over-the-counter drugs for acute and chronic cough.

One woman’s tale of her journey beyond perfectionism and people-pleasing to return to her authentic, wild self. The Other Side of Perfect is a brutally honest and revealing peek into the life of a woman whose multiple diagnoses and bleak prognosis would be the surprising source of her ultimate liberation. After trying everything she knew to recover from the physical damage of autoimmune diseases—medication, nutrition, fitness, reducing stress—Debbie found her health continuing to deteriorate and in the deepest depths of depression she’d ever experienced.

In Incurable Faith, Andrea Herzer writes from the midst of her own long-term illness to give you hope wherever you are on your journey with medical issues. Whether you are facing a new diagnosis, mysterious pain, or any other illness, you can go from being a victim to being victorious through God’s sustaining love.

As anyone with a chronic illness knows, hope can sometimes be hard to come by. For parents and caregivers of children with serious illness, there can be a real struggle to move beyond one's own grief, fear, and suffering to see what hope means for these kids.

Wandering from the base of the brain and then branching through your lungs, heart, digestive tract, and all the way to your abdomen, the vagus nerve is the longest and most powerful of the cranial nerves in your body, making it the most important nerve you never knew you had. It works as some sort of a "superhighway" that carries all manner of information to and from the organs and organ systems connected in its complex network.

Volume 2 of What Women Must Know includes the following segments: "Getting to Know Your Lymphatic System: A Missing Piece of Your Health Puzzle" with Dr. John Douillard; "How Our Microbiome Is Revolutionizing Our Pursuit of a Healthy Life" with Dr. Rodney Dietert; "The Best Natural Solutions for Acute and Chronic Coughs" with Dr. Gustavo Ferrer; "Is Cancer a Genetic Disease or a Metabolic Disease?" with Dr. Thomas Seyfried; and much more.

In diesem Buch teilt die Autorin ihre persönliche Reise, wie sie nach der Covid-Impfung mit ihrer chronischen Erkrankung umgegangen ist. Nach reiflicher Überlegung hatte sie sich für die Impfung entschieden, um ihren Beitrag zur Bekämpfung der Corona-Pandemie zu leisten und sich selbst und andere zu schützen. Von der heimtückischen Autoimmunerkrankung Dermatomyositis heimgesucht, erlebte sie zum ersten Mal in ihrem Leben einen unglaublichen Untersuchungs- und Behandlungsmarathon.

Now more than 133 million Americans live with chronic illness, accounting for nearly three-quarters of all health care dollars, and untold pain and disability. There has been an alarming rise in illnesses that defy diagnosis through clinical tests or have no known cure. Millions of people, especially women, with illnesses such as irritable bowel syndrome, chronic pain, and chronic fatigue syndrome face skepticism from physicians and the public alike.

The vagus nerve is a large, branching nerve that begins in your brain and sends signals to your body’s major organs such as your heart, your lungs, and your digestive system. It’s responsible for your heart rate, your digestion, your reaction to stress, and many other things. That’s why a lot can go wrong in your body if the vagus nerve doesn’t function perfectly.

When Marisa Zeppieri was 22-years-old she found herself face-to-face with a raven-haired elderly woman who had emerged from a crowd and gently taken her hands: "God will use these hands to change people's lives." With Chronically Fabulous, Marisa fulfills the old woman's prophecy by offering pure nourishment to those of us living with chronic illness, helping us create wholeness and well-being through a love of food.

The vagus nerve is becoming the dominant focal point as a potential "off switch" for aggravation-related sicknesses, for example, epilepsy, rheumatoid joint pain, and provocative inside disorder. The guideline of the vagus nerve likewise assumes a colossal job in psychological well-being care, enabling you to viably react to the enthusiastic and physiological manifestations of sadness, nervousness, and PTSD.