Books on Fibromyalgia

[JayCS]

Results of collecting books recommended on the forums and then looking at reviews:

The one most highly recommended by many is:
Starlanyl, Devin (& Mary Ellen Copeland) “Fibromyalgia and Chronic Myofascial Pain: A Survival Manual (2nd Edition)” ("Fibro Bible") (has fibro himself)
The most trustworthy recent one is:
Abril, Andy & Barbara K. Bruce, Mayo Clinic Guide to Fibromyalgia 2019.

Further good ones seem to be:
Cooper, Celeste: Integrative Therapies for Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Myofascial Pain: The Mind-Body Connection 2010
Edelberg, David: Healing Fibromyalgia: Why everything hurts and how to feel well again (functional doc) 2011
Pellegrino, Mark J. (and David Schumick): Inside Fibromyalgia 2001
Pellegrino, Mark J.: The Fibromyalgia Survivor 1995
Pellegrino, Mark J.: Fibromyalgia, Up close and Personal (has it himself; 10 books to date)
A fun one written by @VPugh: Pugh, Vasily: So You've Got Fibromyalgia: An Irreverent Look at a Chronic Illness

Not sure, recent one, reviews good up to now: Lenz, Michael: Conquering Your Fibromyalgia: Real Answers and Real Solutions for Real Pain

Fibromyalgia books with a functional medicine orientation:
Dryland, David & List, Lorie: The Fibromyalgia Solution: A Breakthrough Approach to Heal Your Body and Take Back Your Life
Liptan, Ginevra: The Fibro Manual (incl. fascial release)
Liptan, Ginevra: Figuring out Fibromyalgia: Current science and the most effective treatments
Marek, Claudia Craig, (and Florence, Mari, Foreword: Armand, R. Paul).: The first year - An essential guide for the newly Diagnosed. (Fibromyalgia)
Stackelhouse, Tami (FW: Ginevra Liptan): Take Back Your Life: Find Hope And Freedom From Fibromyalgia Symptoms And Pain
Teitelbaum, Jacob: The Fatigue and Fibromyalgia Solution: The Essential Guide to Overcoming Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia, Made Easy!

Fibromyalgia books for families & friends:
Black, Janet: Fibromyalgia for Families and Friends: what you need to know to support your loved one with fibromyalgia
Buford, Tom: Living with Fibromyalgia Patients: 79 Ways You Can Make Their Lives Better 2012

Fatigue
Howard, Alex: Decode Your Fatigue: A Clinically Proven 12-Step Plan to Increase Your Energy, Heal Your Body and Transform Your Life

Chronic Pain
Bernhard, Toni: How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers (Second Edition: 2018)
Butler, David: Explain Pain (1994.. 2017)
Doidge, Norman: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
(neuroplasticity)
Gordon, Alan: The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain
Groopman, Jerome (Harvard): The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness (1994...)
Horn, Danea: Chronic Resilience: 10 Sanity-Saving Strategies for Women Coping with the Stress of Illness (For Readers of The Body Keeps the Score or Taming Chronic Pain)
Kabat-Zinn; Jon: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
Louw, Adriaan: Why Do I Hurt? - A Patient Book About the Neuroscience of Pain (2013), plus Workbook (2016)
Maté, Gabor: When The Body Says No: : The Cost of Hidden Stress
McHardy, Lucia: A Smaller, Richer Life: Using Illness as a Chance to Grow
Risidore, Lyn: Multiple Sclerosis: The Kinder Side (1989)
Robinson, Peggy: My Journey Through Chronic Pain (2016)
Sachs, Nicole J.: The Meaning of Truth: embrace your truth. create your life (2016)
Sarno, John E.: The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain (1999)
Tearnan, Blake H.: 10 Simple Solutions to Chronic Pain: How to Stop Pain from Controlling Your Life (2007)

Depression, Trauma, Co-Dependency...
Beatty, Melody: Co-Dependency books (JayCS's favourite: The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations for Codependents (Haz)
Burns, David D.: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy (CBT)
Lawson, Jenny: Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Furiously Happy (2017), and Broken (in the best possible way) (depression) (2001)
Rooks, Stella: Arise in Me (Depression)
Van der Kolk, Bessel: The Body Keeps The Score (Trauma)

Physiotherapy
Davies, Clair: Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)

General (functional medicine) / Food / "autoimmune"
Colbert, Don: Dr. Colbert's Healthy Gut Zone: Heal Your Digestive System to Restore Your Body and Renew Your Mind
Gundry, Stephen: The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (The Plant Paradox, 1)
Khalsa, Guru Dharma Singh: Food As Medicine: How to Use Diet, Vitamins, Juices, and Herbs for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life
Myers, Amy: The Autoimmune Solution: Prevent and Reverse the Full Spectrum of Inflammatory Symptoms and Diseases (& Cookbook)
O’Bryan, Tom: The Autoimmune Fix: How to Stop the Hidden Autoimmune Damage That Keeps You Sick, Fat, and Tired Before It Turns Into Disease
Reno, Tosca: The Eat Clean Diet: : Fast Fat-Loss that lasts Forever! & The Eat-Clean Diet Cookbook
Scott, Trudy: The Antianxiety Food Solution: How the Foods You Eat Can Help You Calm Your Anxious Mind, Improve Your Mood, and End Cravings (2011)

Spoiler: Click here for further Fibromyalgia books - mentioned on the forums, but probably not recommendable, for various reasons, esp. reviews:

Brady, David: The Fibro fix: Get to the Root of Your Fibromyalgia and Start Reversing Your Chronic Pain and Fatigue in 21 Days (200)=
Elrod, Joe M.: Reversing Fibromyalgia: The Whole-Health Approach to Overcoming Fibromyalgia Through Nutrition, Exercise, Supplements and Other Lifestyle Factors Unlikely 2002
Goldenberg, Don: Fibromyalgia: The Final Chapter (his 3rd book, e-book)
Goldenberg, Don: Chronic Widespread Pain: Lessons Learned from Fibromyalgia and Related Disorders
Ingebretson, Susan E.: FibroWHYalgia: Why Rebuilding the Ten Root Causes of Chronic Illness Restores Chronic Wellness (2013)
Purser, Dan: Real fibromyalgia Rx. (doctors; damage to the pituitary gland??)
Seignalet, Dominique and Seignalet, Anne: How to prevent & reverse 100 diseases the new French way with Dr. Seignalet's diet miracle: Obesity - Arthritis -Migraines - Depression -MS -Crohn's - ... Fibromyalgia - Acne - Psoriasis - Lupus etc. (diet)
Selfridge, Nancy and Peterson, Franklynn: Freedom from Fibromyalgia : The 5-Week Program Proven to Conquer Pain 2001

 

[JayCS]

A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia​

The science of the mysterious disease of pain, exhaustion, and mental fog
Paul Ingraham • Sep 10, 2021 • 100m read (!!)
(painscience.com articles fibromyalgia php)

Despite the title, this is not a book, it's a unique format: a comprehensive web overview at our fingertips,
which is being written by a science journalist over the period of a few years (starting 2017).
He has his own interesting ideas, some of which we may differ with, but is putting many things into a clever perspective.
I sent it to someone very much in the know and he was excited about it.

A sort of fibromyalgia Christmas present I found under our (real German Christmas fir) tree for us all
(As opposed to normal German tradition we're gift giving tomorrow, as my wife has to work from now till tomorrow midmorning...)

 

[JayCS]

Above-mentioned "The Fibromyalgia Workbook" by Adrian Louw is spoken about by
Bob & Brad in: Top 3 Things you should try if you have Fibromyalgia (Based on Science), 2017. They cite the old tender point idea, without making clear if/that Louw knows that it is antiquated. Main FM-explanation: elevated, amplified pain (like with a volume knob), i.e. hyperalgesia, and the CSS-hypothesis: central sensitisation syndrome.
But the saying to repeat might be cool for some: "You're sore, but you're safe", "Hurt, but it does not equal harm".
I beg to differ on this: I have no hyperalgesia, I don't believe my fibro is a form of CSS, my kind of pain does not feel like nerves just over-reacting, because I have far more symptoms and they are telling me something is pretty wrong and harmed in my body. (Yeah, even tho there's no tissue damage.) I do agree with Bob & Brad tho that that's no reason to worry, get into anxiety etc. So I guess for people who can't get out of their anxiety in a different way, these sayings are cool.