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A review by joluyo
Beating Endo: How to Reclaim Your Life from Endometriosis by Amy Stein, Iris Kerin Orbuch
2.0
This book is probably a lot more useful to you if you are American, and, as other reviewers have said, wealthy. The authors strongly recommend physical therapy as a treatment procedure for endometriosis, but unfortunately PT isn’t generally offered as treatment for endo in the UK. The sections on insurance and USDA-certified products also weren’t relevant to me as a reader based in the UK. It feels like a lot of the advice given in the book assumes you have endless resources, money and time. For example, the chapter on endo and the environment advises you to “throw out every product currently in your medicine cabinet and order anew from sources that only sell clean personal care products”. Not only is this expensive and unrealistic for many, it’s also incredibly wasteful.
I actually laughed out loud when the “reclaim your life” chapter advised readers that “it is a good idea to go back to the generalists who misdiagnosed you, bringing copies of your operative and pathology reports, and gently educate them”. Can you imagine, as a British person, making an appointment with your GP in what is already an overburdened, strained and underfunded medical system – just to ‘gently educate’ them that they misdiagnosed you? This section just seemed like the authors, although they are medical professionals, have a very unrealistic view of the medical services available to the majority of people who aren’t wealthy and American.
I read this book in 2021, just three years after it was published, and already found that many of the online resources were out of date or no longer accessible, such as The Integrative Women’s Health Institute website.
The parts of the book I did find useful were the nutritional advice and the therapeutic exercises and I’ve been following this particular guidance with positive results so far. This book wasn’t for me overall, but I’m sure that some will find it helpful.
I actually laughed out loud when the “reclaim your life” chapter advised readers that “it is a good idea to go back to the generalists who misdiagnosed you, bringing copies of your operative and pathology reports, and gently educate them”. Can you imagine, as a British person, making an appointment with your GP in what is already an overburdened, strained and underfunded medical system – just to ‘gently educate’ them that they misdiagnosed you? This section just seemed like the authors, although they are medical professionals, have a very unrealistic view of the medical services available to the majority of people who aren’t wealthy and American.
I read this book in 2021, just three years after it was published, and already found that many of the online resources were out of date or no longer accessible, such as The Integrative Women’s Health Institute website.
The parts of the book I did find useful were the nutritional advice and the therapeutic exercises and I’ve been following this particular guidance with positive results so far. This book wasn’t for me overall, but I’m sure that some will find it helpful.