It's a Sistah Thing

by Monique Brown

Book Overview

Combines personal stories with medical tips about fibroids in African American women, and includes information about diagnosis, treatment, and living a healthy lifestyle.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075820065X
• ISBN13: 9780758200655
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

An Excellent Resource Before any Surgery

I found Monique Brown's book more informative than any I read of its kind. So much so, I recommended it to a number of women and even purchased it as a gift for some of my friends.Many of them wished they would have known about the book prior to undergoing a hysterectomy or a myomectomy.I found the case studies inspiring and the resources quite helpful for my research. The diagrams were awesome as they helped me to picture what fibroids actually look like in and on the uterus. Furthermore, the natural healing information has been extremely helpful in providing alternatives to surgery. Overall, I especially liked that it was an easy warm read and not cold and clinical.

Let her share what she has learned with you!

First, let me say that, "It's A Sistah Thing," by Monique R. Brown, is one well written and well researched book on fibroids. Ms. Brown's credits include: senior editor of Black Enterprise Magazine, an adjunct professor at Long Island University, and President and Founder of Professional Women of Color. The author, Monique Brown, had fibroids and has herself faced the horrible specter of hysterectomy. She was one of the lucky ones and got a myomectomy. She reports that her myomectomy improved her sex life. The main thrust of the book is to advance alternative approaches to fibroids; however, she does take the op to sound many important alarms. She is delicately raising the hysterectomy/race connection. She notes UAE is new with few studies done and then adds Dr. Scott Goodwin's remark, pg. 203, "If you embolize and block the blood supply to the nerves going into the uterus, those nerves may very well be damaged. And if you were feeling something in your uterus that was pleasurable, you may no longer feel that after embolization." And Monique is pretty straightforward about hysterectomy and sex. On page 204 she quotes Herbert A. Goldfarb as saying that 40% of women indicate a reduced sexual response after a hysterectomy and then goes on to briefly explain why. But what made me buy the book? One short sentence found on pg. 201, "There's also a theory that the vagus nerve, a nerve that shoots from the cervix to the brain stem, is a pathway for orgasmic sensations." Readers, that is not common knowledge. Ms. Brown has done her homework.Let her share what she has learned with you!

WHAT A BOOK!

This book is WONDERFUL. It is easy to read and the humor is great too! It gives you more information then you can image. It prepares you with questions to ask your doctor; what foods to avoid, how to share what you are going through with your mate and much, much more. More importantly, she praises God! A book to have in your library. An EXCELLENT Reference tool. I have recommended this book to four women within the last two months and told at least twenty or so about it. Ladies, we must not keep this to ourselves... SHARE it with others.

A great reference guide...

This is a must have for women who suffer from fibroids. The book is well written and easy to understand. Monique Brown also gives a great deal of reference information that can be used in conjunction with her book. Definitely get this book!

Sensitive, Informative and Heartwarming

Ms. Brown does a wonderful job of using her struggle with fibroids to teach and reasure others who are dealing with this health issue. She has really done her research and provided a wealth of data regarding traditional medical and natural wholistic approaches to coping with fibroids. Ms. Brown's book is upbeat, not merely clinical and it is extremely easy to read. The personal examples from other fibroid suffers helps the reader to understand that this problem is all too common and that there are others out there dealing with the same issue. I highly recommend this guide.