books

I was wanting to know what book is the best or most hrlpful place to start reading to help me understand what going on with me. I used the book tab and it took me to amazon, to many to pick from. I was recommend the trigger point therapy and I'm going to get it. Sorry for the poor spelling & typo. I don't like typing and I days where it is s big problem to spell the simplest of word. I would be grateful for any help of narrowing my seach down :

One of the best books I like is fibromyalgia and chronic myofacial pain. It's by Mary Copeland and it's the second edition. It's on amazon for $16.47. I love her books. You can look this up on line with great reviews. I love Mary Copeland books. I have several others. I was
Introduced to her books when I was suffering deep depression. She has workshops around the world. This book is very easy to read, but has every detailed thing that ones suffers with fibro. I could see myself on each page. I was actually a little frustrated when reading it at times because my Dr's never shared any of this info to me. I suffered for years and thought I was going nuts and hear it was all explained in this book. I hope you get the same out of it.

I don't believe mentioning books is against the rules. It is if you are selling them for profit... Books are very good tools.

Hugs, Karen...

I got the fibromyalgia for dummies, and it didn't tell me anything I didn't already know.

Ak angel & couchtater, thanks for the help of narrowing down my search.

To FibroTracker, I'll leave this forum if that will help you feel better. Would that be sufficient enough punishment for me having fibro fog and forgetting the forum rules? That is...if you may not be the one in the wrong here. Getting by seem to think that there was no rules broke here. So, I'm asking everybody if a rule was broken here?

Mrs. Unique - I sincerely hope you would not take any action in an effort to please me at all- there is no point to that at all. As I said - the posting of book suggestions to me is a great thing. Helping each other to learn as much as we can is good for all involved. That is how it should be.

The issue I was pointing out is that on this forum, the rules would appear to prohibit this:

4. No advertising or links to advertising or "Spam" is permitted.
- Advertising or spam is defined as posting a link for the purpose of selling, soliciting or promoting something.
- Links promoting fundraising, advocacy, etc. are not permitted.
- Sharing of links to helpful and relevant web sites and resources is allowed if they are not used for a promotional purpose.

That last one - books are sold for money thus mentioning a book is promoting it. Mentioning a book that is for sale can lead to others going to purchase the book. Thus the individual who mentioned it is promoting it even if they do not gain from the promotion themselves.

Like I said - I think this is all good for readers. But if the site bans all mention of all commercial products or profit associated "things" - then does this not need to be enforced equally? Why is the mention of books offered for sale ok but the mention of other helpful things is not?

What I would really like to see is a changing of the rules such that the focus was less on restricting access to helpful information and more on helping people get all the information they may benefit from.

My intent was certainly not to complain about what people have posted - more of that kind of posting is what I would prefer to see. I believe the rules are restrictive to the point of doing far more harm than good.