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Beating Endo: How to Reclaim Your Life from Endometriosis
Amy Stein, Iris Kerin Orbuch
3.82 AVERAGE
40 reviews for:
Beating Endo: How to Reclaim Your Life from Endometriosis
Amy Stein, Iris Kerin Orbuch
3.82 AVERAGE
Good, but with a couple of exceptions. Any book which advocates nutritionists over dieticians, superfoods and scaremongers about plastics and chemicals is a red flag imo. Otherwise, very insightful.
3.5 ⭐️
this book has some really great information about how endo works and affects all the different systems in your body in a scientific but still easy to understand way. they also have some great suggestions on ways exercises and things you can do to help manage your endometriosis symptoms. but i have 2 main issues with this book:
1 - they put a big focus on money and say things like ‘patients may say they can’t afford treatment and will put it off, but putting it off may mean longer treatment later down the track. it’s better to just pay it now and put everything else on the back burner for now’ uh hello, what kind of fantasy world are you living in? the cost of living is EXPENSIVE, and people can’t just stop paying their bills. a lot of people with endometriosis are restricted in their work because of their symptoms and therefore won’t have as much disposable income as someone who is healthy/has no health issues. it’s not easy for people to just afford the type of treatments we actually require. a literal quote from the book “supplementing your insurance coverage or paying a therapist directly right now may seem pricey, but weigh it against your suffering and your health before you decide you can’t afford it” what gets me most is the BEFORE YOU DECIDE YOU CANT AFFORD IT. i don’t know if it’s just me but i find that highly insensitive. we aren’t just choosing and deciding we can’t afford it.
2 - there’s a chapter in the book talking about how endometriosis cases are rare in teens. the authors talk about their extensive training and expertise in the field of endo, yet still wrote that chapter? it is widely known in the endo community that it takes an average of 12 years to get an official diagnosis, so saying that there are fewer cases diagnosed in teens probably isn’t a reflection on it being a rare condition in teens but more about the fact that endo isn’t as widely educated about or known and it takes FAR TOO LONG for people to get a diagnosis. for most people, we know that onset of symptoms usually start from the time you get your first period, and generally you’re a teenager at this time, meaning that endometriosis was present, just not diagnosed, so i find the fact that they wrote that chapter to be incredibly misinformed.
this book has some really great information about how endo works and affects all the different systems in your body in a scientific but still easy to understand way. they also have some great suggestions on ways exercises and things you can do to help manage your endometriosis symptoms. but i have 2 main issues with this book:
1 - they put a big focus on money and say things like ‘patients may say they can’t afford treatment and will put it off, but putting it off may mean longer treatment later down the track. it’s better to just pay it now and put everything else on the back burner for now’ uh hello, what kind of fantasy world are you living in? the cost of living is EXPENSIVE, and people can’t just stop paying their bills. a lot of people with endometriosis are restricted in their work because of their symptoms and therefore won’t have as much disposable income as someone who is healthy/has no health issues. it’s not easy for people to just afford the type of treatments we actually require. a literal quote from the book “supplementing your insurance coverage or paying a therapist directly right now may seem pricey, but weigh it against your suffering and your health before you decide you can’t afford it” what gets me most is the BEFORE YOU DECIDE YOU CANT AFFORD IT. i don’t know if it’s just me but i find that highly insensitive. we aren’t just choosing and deciding we can’t afford it.
2 - there’s a chapter in the book talking about how endometriosis cases are rare in teens. the authors talk about their extensive training and expertise in the field of endo, yet still wrote that chapter? it is widely known in the endo community that it takes an average of 12 years to get an official diagnosis, so saying that there are fewer cases diagnosed in teens probably isn’t a reflection on it being a rare condition in teens but more about the fact that endo isn’t as widely educated about or known and it takes FAR TOO LONG for people to get a diagnosis. for most people, we know that onset of symptoms usually start from the time you get your first period, and generally you’re a teenager at this time, meaning that endometriosis was present, just not diagnosed, so i find the fact that they wrote that chapter to be incredibly misinformed.
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Książka dobra dla początkujących w temacie - takich jak ja. Jest tu kilka przydatnych informacji, chociaż sekcja o operacji i informacje o antykoncepcji były bardzo krótkie. Sekcja o odżywianiu była słabo zresearchowana, znalazlam tam pewien błąd który może być szkodliwy. Dużo gadki szmatki. Podsumowując: bardzo rozwleczony, amerykański poradnik który trzeba czytać z duża szczypta sceptycyzmu.
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Great to see a well structured, informative book on the disease but found the writing difficult to digest easily. Found myself stopping and starting over a period of time. Still have unanswered questions but I learnt more from this than I have from my doctors and found the statistics included in the writing fascinating. Still a must read for all endo sufferers and those close to them.
I feel conflicted about this one. On the one hand, it’s probably one of the most extensively informative books on the subject, and full of HEAPS of useful information. There’s also a lot of really empowering, validating language too - definitely a great read for anyone with endo or anyone curious enough to learn more about it. On the other hand, some of the book (the last third of the book especially) touched heavily on their “tried and true” treatment plan. No doubt I’m sure it works.. but only a small portion of the population can actually afford to invest in and maintain such a plan. With all that they’re outlining.. it’s just, a lot: Physical therapy, different doctors, specialists, excision surgery/surgeries(?), nutritionist/strict diet regimen, cleansing every toxic household product.. I feel like for wanting to be such an approachable book at the beginning, it really wrapped things up with a rather unrealistic, elitist tone. Who has that kind of money lying around? Much as it pains me to say, I closed the book feeling really bummed, and it’s likely so many others felt similar: that this beautiful solution they propose is just too far out of reach.