How do you live well when the physical foundation of your life is crumbling? This is the challenge for millions who live with diseases for which there is no cure. These incurable ailments produce a life of constant pain, fatigue, numbness, dizziness and/or other debilitating symptoms creating chronic suffering. Can you thrive in life while experiencing the suffering persistent sickness provokes? In "When There Is No Cure: How to Thrive While Living with the Pain and Suffering of Chronic Illness, Dr. Craig Svensson guides readers to a path of thriving when life’s journey includes an incurable ailment. Drawing on his expertise as a pharmacist-scientist, as well as a fellow sufferer with several incurable diseases, he helps patients steer through the twists and turns of life with chronic illness.

How do you get physicians to take health complaints seriously? Where do you turn when they acknowledge your ailment with upturned hands and confess they don’t know how to help? How do you deal with the overwhelming sense of loss with an untreatable diagnosis? How do you address those whose reaction to your ailment increases your suffering? Can you live well with inescapable pain? How do you avoid living in a state of fear when facing an uncertain prognosis? Should you try to keep your disease a secret from others? How do you choose between treatment options when each could cause harm? "When There Is No Cure" provides encouragement and hope to those navigating the troubled waters of chronic illness.

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Craig K. Svensson, PharmD, PhD, is Dean Emeritus and Professor of Medicinal Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology in the Purdue University College of Pharmacy, as well as Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology in the Indiana University School of Medicine. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, American Heart Association, and the American Cancer Society.