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Strategies: A Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia Journey

Tami Brady
Loving Healing Press (2008)
ISBN 9781932690484
Reviewed by Randy A. Lakin for RebeccasReads (1/09)

Tami Brady’s newest book, “Strategies: A Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia Journey” is excellent.  The book starts out with Tami explaining how she came to be diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia.  The author explains how the process was lengthy: at first she had undergone all sorts of blood tests.  The doctors had ruled out chemical imbalances, cancer, diabetes, lupus, and a whole variety of other conditions and they were still stumped.  It was at this point they sent her to a Neurologist to rule out MS or Multiple Sclerosis, which they did.

This process can be very unnerving for an individual, I know because my wife has gone through the same process.  It’s just like the author explains.  My wife, Colleen, went from doctor to doctor trying to find out what was wrong with her.  It took quite some time until we found a very good doctor that took the time needed to diagnose my wife with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia.  Unfortunately, my wife was also diagnosed with Parkinson’s.  It wasn’t until Tami went to a sports medicine specialist that she was told she had Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.  The process the author went through is very similar for many other people to find out what is wrong with them.  Once the author received her diagnoses of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia she went into denial for almost a decade.

Once the author accepted her condition and stopped seeing it as a weakness, she was able to move on.  The author discusses several ways to treat Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.  She states there are vitamins, herbs, over the counter drugs, prescription drugs which the author did not use and meditation.  The author uses meditation and visualization to help overcome the pain.  Tami created several different meditation and visualization routines for herself, depending on how her pain was and where it was.

After reading Tami Brady’s book and all the trouble my wife has gone through with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia I have to say the author has a real winner with this book.  I would recommend that if you have been diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, both, or if you even think you have them to buy this book.  And when it comes to doctors you can see that they don’t know everything.  So many doctors take the quick route and blame a person’s problem on weight or stress.  If the author had settled for that reasoning or that kind of doctor, her life would have been very dreary.  She would have no hope of ever finding out what was wrong with her and continued to think of her illness as a weakness or some kind of atonement for past wrongs.  So I recommend this book to everyone with the same condition as the author.  I know my wife and I enjoyed reading it.

  

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