Book Review: Living with Arthritis: Everything You Need to Know by John Marcus Thompson

Depending on which Doctor you ask, I have either Rheumatoid Arthritis or Lupus. The symptoms are extremely similar for both...and the results are not far off each other either. They are both autoimmune diseases and are treated with the same drugs, so I don't sweat the discrepancy at all. As a result though, I find myself pouring over Internet sites and various local bookstores for more info on both. I've skimmed many a book and Living With Arthritis: Everything You Need to Know caught my attention enough to go ahead and purchase.

Living With Arthritis is written by a Rheumatologist named John Marcus Thompson. What he promises in the forward is to tell you things that your own doctor probably won't. That's how he nabbed me. I want to know it all. I want to know what to expect both worst case and best case. Unfortunately, Thompson didn't really deliver as promised. I learned little new, and got some conflicting info from this book... but I'm getting ahead of myself.

Thompson covers all the various forms of Arthritic ailments, both inflammatory and non-inflammatory. He tries to cover as much ground as possible on what you can expect to happen with each, various symptoms, but all he manages to do in many instances is talk himself in circles, never really nailing himself down to an answer. This is very frustrating. Granted, I may know more than most already with the amount of time I've spent scouring the web so perhaps that's why he had no new info for me... but I don't really think that's it at all... he just seems to skim the surface.