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- ISBN13: 9780380787791
- Condition: New
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- Author : Larrian Gillespie
- Binding : Paperback
- Dewey Decimal Number : 616.623082
- EAN : 9780380787791
- Edition : Rev Upd
- ISBN : 0380787792
- Label : Harper Paperbacks
- List Price : $13.95 (USD)
- Manufacturer : Harper Paperbacks
- Number Of Items : 1
- Number Of Pages : 320
- Package Dimensions : 0.77 inches (Height) x 8.18 inches (Length) x 0.61 pounds (Weight) x 5.22 inches (Width)
- Publication Date : 1996-12-01
- Publisher : Harper Paperbacks
- Release Date : 1996-12-01
- Studio : Harper Paperbacks
Many women have been led to believe that a urinary tract infection signals the beginning of a chronic, painful problem that is fated to reoccur despite treatment. The good news is that You Don't Have to Live With Cystitis. Dr. Larrian Gillispie, a female uro-gynecologist widely recognized in the scientific and medical community and one of the few doctors with expertise in the area of pelvic pain, has shown that women can break out of the vicious cycle of cystitis. From the outset, You Don't Have to Live With Cystitis has helped millions of women. This updated edition reflects newly discovered causes and treatments:•Immediate steps to reduce suffering•The surprising role of excercise and lower back problems•Updated treatment and prevention options -- from diet to surgery•How antibiotics may cause hormone problems•Which method of contraception may cause problems•The effects of stress on the uninary tract•Newest treatments for interstitial cystitis•Cystitis in children and during pregnancy and menopause Plus •A Complete Guide to Commonly Prescribed Medications•Essential Vitamin and Mineral Supplements•An Anti-Cystitis Diet
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Customer Reviews:
Customers rated You Don't Have to Live with Cystitis 4.5 stars out of 5.0 based on 18 reviews:A MUST BUY FOR IC SUFFERERS!
by N. Balderrama (Whittier,CA) - 2010-02-18
Wow I was so relieved to read this book after suffering my entire life with Interstitial Cystitis! Answers to questions I have always had were answered and easily explained in terms anyone could understand. Reading this book was like a trip down memory lane for me. Suddenly I was remembering my childhood and all the times I would rush home from school because I had to use the restroom and then when I got there nothing! Then being sick for hours and the next day I was fine. I was in and out of doctor's offices my entire childhood. I felt broken...that is the best way to describe myself. I was broken. Somehow everyone else had parts that worked but me! When I read each chapter, and believe me if you suffer from IC you do not want to put this book down because you can relate to just about every chapter in the book, you are amazed at how the body works and why you suffer the way you do. Eating the right foods can ease the discomfort and eating the wrong foods can trigger it! The book does not cure you of your IC but it does educate you on how to control it and live a symptom free life. I ordered and started reading the book because I was in a terrible flare up of symptoms and after reading the book and making some dietary changes I am happy to say that the symptoms have all but gone and I am hopeful that I will be able to control them in the future when they return. The book gives you hope that IC is manageable and life is once again a good thing!Cystitis
by Irene Ezell - 2009-09-28
The book was very informative, but seemed like most of the book was about Interstitial Cystitis which is good if this is your problem, but not enough time spent on normal Cystitis.You Don't Have to Live Withe Cystitis
by Tink (Pinetop, AZ) - 2009-08-16
This book will help anyone concerned with bladder pain that antibiotics does not help. In my case I was treated for UTI's many times, but the pain persisted until I changed my diet due to the tips in this book. I did see an urologist to be sure I did not have a more serious problem, so I advise doing so. I am fine when I adhere to the tips found in this book. DAThere are better and more current books now available for IC!
by Jill O. (Wine Country of California, USA) - 2008-11-21
[...] I'm not aware of any IC support group leaders who currently suggest this book to newly diagnosed patients simply because it is older, out of date and provides information which, today, would be considered controversial. Spinal surgery, for example, is rarely considered today for interstitial cystitis and, of course, only for patients who have a proven spinal defect that could be influencing their bladder function. Rather, the most common therapies are non-surgical, such as the use rescue instillations, antihistamines, etc. etc. The author certainly deserves credit for bringing the importance of diet to the forefront. She brought attention and publicity to the IC movement and helped to build awareness for IC. For newly diagnosed patients looking for up to date information on IC, I strongly suggest the book "The IC Survival Guide" by Robert Moldwin MD (New Harbinger Publications), as a much better choice. It is written by a well respected doctor by both patients and the medical field. He is known world wide as a leader in the IC research movement and his book is the #1 recommended resource today by patient groups around the world.IC Pain - Gone!!! (and so is other pain like neck and back)
by Ann H. Barbiero ((barbiero@optonline.net) Stratford, CT United States) - 2003-03-01
With over 30 years of IC pain, I was tolerating only water and green beans until I read this book. The author, an IC sufferer and doctor, includes a wealth of suggestions which I immediately was easily able to incorporate into my diet and life style. Yes, the foods IC sufferers cannot tolerate are listed in her book which I found very helpful!As a high school teacher and a mother of a medical doctor, the knowledge I acquired in this book led me to a FOOD SUPPLEMENT which has STOPPED my IC pain-it's been over 8 years that I have been taking this, not to mention no more neck and back pain, severe menstrual pain, a decrease in allergies, a clearer complexion, etc. YES! - A miracle food supplement for me! Prior to the discovery of this food supplement, my urologist offered an option of removing my bladder and wearing an external bag! I was about to give up teaching because I felt like a zombie from the IC pain that awakened me every hour during the night, let alone, all the trips to the lavatory in between every high school class period! The food/drink/vitamin information in this book and the food supplement I discovered have stopped the IC pain, as well as other pain.What a fabulous domino effect! I started noticing that this same food supplement was stopping other pains! Prior to my taking this food supplement, the orthopedist recommended that I have neck and back surgery after years of recurrent episodes of excruciating pain when repeated physical therapy sessions and pain medications failed to provide relief. To avoid surgery, I went to a chiropractor for the first time in my life which continued for five years with therapy visits required every two months to stay pain free. I then went to a neurologist for a second opinion of the chiropractor's progress on my neck and back. The neurologist said I would always need to be under the chiropractor's care if I was to avoid the neck and back surgery . . . until the FOOD SUPPLEMENT stopped my neck and back pain! I have not seen my chiropractor in over 8 years or any other doctor for neck and back pain since taking this food supplement!!!I take one tablet after breakfast every day and I am pain free!!! Basically, it is a naturally-occurring substance in everyone's body that feeds the nerve endings so that they are healthy and pain free; but, in some people this substance does not replenish itself as fast as the body expends it and, thus, the pain. This food supplement is a naturally-occurring source of organically-bound dietary sulfur that replenishes this deficit without side effects. It contains no solvents, sugar, salt, yeast, wheat, corn, dairy products, coloring, flavoring, or preservatives.A well-known urogynecologist in Connecticut who sees many IC patients refers her IC patients to me to supply them with this food supplement....Thank you, Dr. Gillespie, for the knowledge in your book is what led me to discover this food supplement which has returned me to a normal life!!! I have been able to continue teaching which has allowed me to provide the financial support to meet the educational needs of my son who is now a Physical Education teacher and my daughter who is graduating this May from the University of Connecticut Medical Center in Hartford, Connecticut, as a medical doctor and to support my husband as he was caught up in the corporate buyouts and found himself unemployed until he changed careers and is now a U.S. Post Office employee. I can only imagine where my family and I would be had I not read your book!You will refer to her book over and over again - as I have!!!
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