Mitral-Valve-Prolapse Books

This book has been very helpful in managing my symptoms. It's comforting to know that I am not crazy and that many other people are going through the same things that I am. Thank you.

I enjoyed this book. It explained things about Mitral Valve Prolapse that only a doctor could know from helping hundreds of patients. Easy to read and truly insightful. Also, very easy to read with no doctor-talk and no fluff. Don't hesitate to purchase.

This is a must read for those in professions offering care to others as they grieve.

I bought this book a few years ago after being diagnosed with MVP. I read the personal stories and felt great sympathy for the people who were experiencing so many symptoms which I didn't have. However, in the past two years, I have experienced many new symptoms and this book has been so reassuring and helpful in giving me ideas about how to control them. I have found Dr. Scordo to have much more knowledge about MVP than any of the primary care physicians I have visited. This book has been immensely helpful to me and I would highly recommend it to anyone diagnosed with MVP.

I would like to correct some misinformation in the review posted by Louis in Alabama. The author has a PhD in Nursing, Cardiac Physiology, not an "unrelated field."

This book is the best one you can get on the market! She worked miracles when she led the MVP Syndrome Support group in Cincinnati! She is well educated, and I know she has a PHD in Cardiac Nursing! This book can be a life style saver, if you are willing to read it and apply the recomendations to your life. You can't go wrong with this book! It will validate everything you are experiencing! You will no longer feel like it is all in your head. Kris Scordo has studied, and worked with the MVP patients. You can't go wrong with this book!

At first I was a little concerned because of some of the negative reviews. But I did my research and found Dr. Scordo's information at the faculty site of her university. The book will speak for itself. It is excellent with excellent information. Love the stories of other people with MVPS and love all the helpful advice. I too am a teacher and appreciated the additional references in the book. Without any doubts, this is a great book for those who want to learn more about MVP!

Notice how the same 3 or 4 people keep writing 5 star reviews for this book? Some friends of "Doctor" Scordo perhaps? You should know that Dr. Scordo is not even a medical doctor. Save some money and try this book instead: Natural Therapies for Mitral Valve Prolapse by Ronald L. Hoffman.

Shame on you, Dr. Scordo!

This is a short, yet thorough and informative book on some alternative approaches to this sometimes overwhelming syndrome. I learned a great deal from this book and utilize what I have learned on a daily basis.

Explains the bewildering array of symptoms that can accompany MVP, which the book explains as an indicator of "an underlying instability of the autonomic nervous system." According to this book, people with MVP may experience anxiety, panic attacks, hyperventillation, phantom chest pain, difficulty concentrating, migraine headaches, and other seemilngly unrelated symptoms. I have given copies of this book to several people with MVP, and they all found it to be a helpful eye-opener! This concise book is easy to read and understand, and easily affordable to give to others.

The book was very very thin, I thought it would have been a book with more information in it, seemed almost like an informational packet you would receive at a doctors office.

I was desperate for a natural solution to get off the horrible drugs that doctors prescribe these days. I took his words to heart, so to speak, followed his advice, especially concerning food supplements. I am seeing a difference in only a couple of weeks. The one thing I have added is GABA, an amino acid, to help me sleep.

Not knowing enough about this symptom, Miltral Valve Prolapse, this book was educational as well as thorough. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who has been diagnosed with this symptom. I feel much more informed about this symptom, what other body symptoms may be related to Mitral Valve Prolape and also what natural ways we maintain this symptom, without taking prescription drugs which most doctors would prescribe right away.

I have been struggling with MVP for over 20 years and finding that many doctors don't want to hear about other symptoms that you may be expereincing. I read this book after I was diagnosed with Epstein Barr and with a flaring up of MVP back and forth back.3 months later i haven't been able to work and everyone says i should feel better. I ordered this book in the middle of the night and found i have most of the symptoms of Dysauonomia. And I am going to find a doctor who believes it exists. That will be the hard part. But I am not alone if a book was written about it so I will keep looking for someone to help me.

I loved this book, it helped me understand what makes me feel bad so much of the time. It gave me helpful tools to use. Worth the money!

This book has every detail of information you will ever need to understand MVPS. I have answered so many of my own questions by reading this book. I highly recommend to anyone who has been diagnosed w/ MVP/MVPS....you will learn so much about your symptoms and you will understand why your symptoms relate to MVP.

Saw MD and thought he wrote the book, however, it's written by two people with MVPS. Nice, but was looking for more solid information.

My wife suffered from mitral valve prolapse for several years until we discovered the many healing benefits of appropriate nutrient supplementation. Now that we take chelated magnesium and coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) daily for heart health, her MVP symptoms have disappeared. Anyone wishing verification of the role of magnesium in mitigating the symptoms of mitral valve prolapse can find it discussed in Dr. Carolyn Dean's excellent book The Miracle of Magnesium. Another excellent book which also discusses the role of supplemental magnesium in relieving MVP is The Magnesium Factor by Dr. Mildred Seelig. Both of these books are available from Amazon at quite reasonable prices.

This book, discovered some years ago while I was suffering (unknowingly) from MVPS, explained so many things which had happened in my life. It led to my visiting the MVP Center in Birmingham, AL (the author was one of the founders), which resulted in my condition being understood. And treated. And I have been able to live my life sort of "happily ever after", which I was not able to do at the time.

this book pokes fun at people with MVP and MVPS. the author spends too much time on her so called "neuroses" in people with MVP and MVPS. after reading this book i am convinced that the author wrote it only to convince people with MVP and MVPS that their physical condition is basically all in their head. this is just another book that victimizes the victom of a difficult to deal with medical disorder. also, book is very out dated, and very much the opinion of the author not at all any real medicine in this book. spend some more money on a more recent book on MVP and MVPS.

I recommend this book to anyone who has been diagnosed or thinks they may have MVP. Lyn Fredrickson takes a rational approach and gives practical, medically sound advice for the person with MVP. After reading this book, I knew I was not dying, and I wasn't crazy. Ms. Fredrickson assured me my symptoms were real, and gave me hope for a life unchained from those symptoms. Don't pay any attention to the reader from State College, PA. They obviously did not read this book. Judge for yourself!

First and only book on MVP I have read. Read it while my heart was jumping out of my chest, on the road 2,400 miles from home. Have suffered "palpitations" for 20 years that doctors never have diagnosed. This book just hit home with things I have been feeling for a very long time. Turns out my mother has MVP. I feel this book helped me very much to feel better about what I "may" have. It gave me a lot of useful info on what to do. It is a basic AMA approach and discourse.

This book loves to bash those suffering from MVP. After reading this book i am convinced that the author believes people with MVP are neurotic, immature and in need of therapy for the cardiac condition! Don't waste your money unless you want a laugh as this book is a joke.

As a practicing physician, I strongly recommend Adam Pick's books for all valve surgery patients, their families and their friends. The information provided is easy to understand, applicable to those considering the procedure, and a wealth of knowledge for those who have undergone the surgery. I have offered the well-written book to many of my patients and they have thanked me for providing them with it.

Adam's book really helped me through a very, very, very tough time. I recommend this book to all the patients and caregivers out there. My whole family read it.

A close friend of mine recently had to undergo heart valve surgery. None of my family or other friends had ever needed heart surgery, so, lacking any knowledge of the procedures or risks involved, I was quite fearful about what might happen to my friend.

Rather than just wait and see, I set out to learn as much as possible about heart valve surgery, not only to ease my own mind but so that I might provide the best possible support to my friend before and after his surgery.

I found plenty of useful information on the web, but nearly all of it focused on the technical aspects of heart valve surgery. You know, articles full of diagrams and medical terminology. While these helped me to understand what my friend would be going through physically, they didn't give me much information about how he might be feeling or, more importantly, what I could do to help support him throughout the process.

That's where this book proved to be invaluable. It's written in a very personal style, so you almost feel as though you and Adam are sitting at Starbucks talking about what he went through. Compared to the clinical kinds of information I had been getting up to that point, this book really helped me to understand the "human" side of heart valve surgery and how I might be able to help my friend through at least some of the fear and uncertainty he was feeling.

I'm very glad to report that my friend's surgery went well and that he's doing much better now. I'm also glad to recommend the Patient's Guide to anyone whose friend or family member is about to undergo heart valve surgery.

My husband had a valve repair and I bought this book to see how his situation might compare to what Adam talks about in his book. He gets some things messed up. One example is the TEE - it is not the same as a standard Echocardiogram - but he describes them the same way. Going through the esophagus, a cardiologist can determine more about a valve problem and this is the TEE.

I agree with the above reviewer who states "However, it is largely anecdotal, is somewhat self-centered or self-aggrandizing, and is not at all systematic. In many cases it tells the authoris' story without conveying a good sense of what is typical over the large population of valve recipients."

Having been through this process with my husband, I would not recommend this book to anyone because they would be scared to death of having the surgery. The thought of open-heart surgery is scary in and of itself. Everyone's recovery is different too. Some patients bounce back quickly while some not so fast.

This book does not warrant the $29.95 price tag. It is poorly written and is not very well organized.

Adam's website is, however, alot better and cheaper.

I had the Aortic valve replaced 10 years ago with a bovine valve. I had very little feedback from the surgeon. This book told me all I need to know. It would have been helpful prior to surgery, but after surgery it has cleared up all the mystery. I couldn't get any info about how long this valve should last, but now I know and it's great to realize I have many more years and even look forward to replacing the replacement when the time arrives. I'm currently as strong as I ever was and do anything I please, even back to flying light sports planes and driving (gas guzzling)fast cars. I'm an 80 year old WWII vet who thanks God for the medical system that makes me feel like a kid. God bless the USA.

I was diagnosed with MVP and this is the first book I purchased to learn about this disease. It is such an informative book, it answered all my questions. I had no need to purchase more books. Very well written, and interesting reading. I have had the book for 5 yrs and still refer to it often. Paula

I recently book all the books on Amazon.com on MVP. The best one out of all of them is Taking Control--the latest edition. This book is OK but almost sounds like an angry person wrote it. I believe some of the advice is helpful.

Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome: A Patient's Perspective

This book is very good. It is very informative. Well worth the money.

Still have not received this book... It's on back order

I agree with the other reviewer.I found this book to offer little information on MVP. Sorry I ordered it. Check out the other books, they are much better.

This book is written for a second grader. Shame on the author for being so patronizing to those of us who suffer from this life-altering diease. I'm not a psychologist, but I could have written the general information in this book -- in fact it could have been written for just about any disease by any Psych 101 student. It's a form letter. Don't bother.

If you are looking for good information on MVPS, DON'T get this book. It is written for the author himself to read. Websites like MVPSupport.com offer more information than this book

What a disappointment. As it turns out, this author has done many "how-to" books with little depth or understanding of the disease. To me, it was obvious that he knows little to nothing about MVPS. There are global statements with no medical references. I'm sorry I wasted my money. Disappointed reader.