Multiple Sclerosis For Dummies (For Dummies (Health & Fitness))

Although I see my neurologist on a regular basis,I could not remember all the questions to ask him.I felt very uneducated about my own illness until I started reading this book.An excellent resource book!!

Most of the "For Dummies" books are very basic and easy to follow -- this must be the exception!! Too much compacted facts within the information. Take it apart - more tiny step by step instead of large medical jargon. I understand this is not a medical advice book & they must try not to give any hope or misconceptions of any kind BUT it needs to be broken down into smaller bits. Tell the writers to please "Take small bites". Don't throw a sentence out there without disecting it for us non-medical people. As a newly diagonsed MS person I found the book to be a total waste of my time. There are other books out there that explain multiple sclerosis much simplier than this book.

A great text for those of us (spouses) new to the multifaceted problem of MS. I was looking for a general text that could answer my questions without putting us to sleep. This book fit that bill. I was pleased with the detail, not too much, and it was obviously written for the lay person. I appreciate the section on drugs and this has been a recent consideration. well worth the time and $$.

I have reviewed all of the major lay books on MS. I think MS For Dummies is, by far, the best of all of the general books on MS. It is easy to read and contains information that should be helpful for everyone from lay readers who do not know anything about MS to MS-specialized health professionals. It contains a huge amount of information. It may be read cover-to-cover or be kept as a reference book. I highly recommend this book. I frequently recommend it to my patients and to other health professionals.

nearly all of the information provided in the book has been provided in other books on ms. it's a regurgitation of the ms web site. if you're familiar with the "dummies" format, it is used here and ought to provide some sense of familiarity to the reader. i found nothing new or startling that i hadn't read numerous times before. there were many times when i found myself wishing that the authors had provided a few more morsels of information, to bring it near to the quality provided by other books, but, it just never seems to measure up. i don't take bad reviews lightly. this, by far, has been the lowest review i've ever offered. sadly.