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Beating Endo: How to Reclaim Your Life from Endometriosis
by Amy Stein, Iris Kerin Orbuch
3.5 ⭐️
Good info on the science, co conditions, and alternative treatment options for endo, and the chapters discussing chronic pain and on teenagers/early diagnosis were especially appreciated.
However, the authors continually showed how out of touch with most people’s reality they are by assuming their patients have unlimited money, time, and energy to access and utilize all the methods of healing that these authors claim as nonnegotiable and critical to endo relief. Most people can’t afford a nutritionist, pelvic floor physical therapist, gynecologist, urologist, gastroenterologist, pain management specialist, psychiatrist, and mental health counseling on top of acupuncture, gym memberships, eating organic no antibiotic no GMO local foods from the farmers market, daily supplements and medications, clean beauty and cleaning products, etc. Not to mention the actual cost of exploratory laparoscopic/ excision surgery and taking the time off work and childcare to heal from those. It felt like the authors were perpetuating the historical falsehood that endo is an upper class skinny white woman’s disease with the fantasy of having access to all these expensive endo management choices. Definitely felt overwhelmed by all the suggestions that were not tiered for real gradual application by the end, but the only book I’ve read that gave thorough discussion of pelvic floor physical therapy.
Good info on the science, co conditions, and alternative treatment options for endo, and the chapters discussing chronic pain and on teenagers/early diagnosis were especially appreciated.
However, the authors continually showed how out of touch with most people’s reality they are by assuming their patients have unlimited money, time, and energy to access and utilize all the methods of healing that these authors claim as nonnegotiable and critical to endo relief. Most people can’t afford a nutritionist, pelvic floor physical therapist, gynecologist, urologist, gastroenterologist, pain management specialist, psychiatrist, and mental health counseling on top of acupuncture, gym memberships, eating organic no antibiotic no GMO local foods from the farmers market, daily supplements and medications, clean beauty and cleaning products, etc. Not to mention the actual cost of exploratory laparoscopic/ excision surgery and taking the time off work and childcare to heal from those. It felt like the authors were perpetuating the historical falsehood that endo is an upper class skinny white woman’s disease with the fantasy of having access to all these expensive endo management choices. Definitely felt overwhelmed by all the suggestions that were not tiered for real gradual application by the end, but the only book I’ve read that gave thorough discussion of pelvic floor physical therapy.