Navigating Life with Multiple Sclerosis

by Kathleen Costello, Ben W Thrower, Barbara S Giesser

Navigating Life with Multiple Sclerosis will serve as a practical guide for meeting the challenges of this life-long disease. MS may cause a myriad of symptoms and varies greatly from person to person. The authors demystify MS and offer practical solutions and guidance based upon their extensive combined clinical and research experience. The book tackles many of the common symptoms experienced by the person with MS and looks into the future to explore where research is headed. If you are newly diagnosed or have been living with MS for years, this book is an invaluable guide.

Genres: Nonfiction

208 pages, Paperback

First published May 29, 2015

Reviews

[Sonja · Rating 5 out of 5]

Clear explanations. Easy read.

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick and helpful. A lot of info including on medications and legal preparations for potential major issues.

[Margery Osborne · Rating 5 out of 5]

really interesting and i dont usually like this sort of book

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Knowledgeable. What I needed to know.

[Kristina Forsha · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a really good book and I learned a lot of stuff I didn't know. They also talked about how to set up advanced directives and living wills which was helpful to me because I'm thinking about doing that possibly in the future. The only thing I don't like is that it goes into a bunch of technical/medical jargon (not sure how to spell that) and it's a little hard to understand so that's why I'm giving it 4 stars. But all in all it was a good book, but then I usually like all books. I honestly don't think I've found a book that I haven't liked.

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was given an ARC of this book for an honest review from NetGallery and this is my review.As a woman with MS I found this book insulting and not very helpful at all. I felt like the authors either were spending their time dumbing up the illness for the reader or trying to make themselves sound smarter then they really are. Whatever way they were acting from chapter to chapter or topic to topic I just wanted to tell them to just stop and act more down to earth. Some of the things that were said in this book I really question because they go against what I have been told by my doctors and have read in other publications epically about the benefits and need of lumbar punctures for diagnosis purposes. I had had a lot of problems with a number of things in this book. It was almost like the authors wanted to write a book about MS and get everything in so they glossed over everything and by doing so they took a serious topic and dumbed it up, put in stupid antidotes and jammed it all in a 200 page book that ended up a big hot mess.I am only giving this book two out of five stars because I know for a fact there are better publications about MS available for people to read.