Before
we started off on our bike ride out there, I offered Mike a bottle of
guaifenesin syrup to meliorate his gout, because I was familiar with it
as the cure for fibromyalgia -- which I learned about nine years ago
when I had what I thought was terminal back pain that had plagued me all
my life -- along with bouts of bronchitis, which I didn't suspect were
related until I researched guaifenesin, and why it could be the cure for
most of the afflictions affecting those with chronic conditions
distinguished by the thickening of the body mucous -- most commonly as a
respiratory inflammation of the lungs characterized by thickened
mucous, as well as the thickening of the mucous (lubricant) of the
body's essential fluidity (viscosity) that causes all other bodily pain,
commonly known as the autoimmune diseases of arthritis, gout, lupus,
fibromyalgia and the other hundreds of autoimmune conditions of the
failure of the lymphatic fluid (mucous) to function properly.
The thickening of the mucous, is also a longstanding observation of the
aging process -- by which such people were described as rheumy and
phlegmatic. Guaifenesin has only one property -- of thinning the mucous
in the body, and particularly the lungs, which most people are
conditioned to believe, has no relationship to the mucous of any other
part of the body -- just as it would be preposterous to think that
thinning the blood to the brain, has no relationship to thinning the
blood flowing anywhere else in the body -- except that one specific
organ that the specialists claim to have total and exclusive
jurisdiction in understanding and curing.
But that was probably the greatest significant discovery of my ten years
in Hawaii after I left Seattle. Life was very good for my first four
years there, and then everything turned very bad -- including my
recurring back pain throughout life, threatened to become a permanent
condition -- and while desperately investigating all my dwindling
options, I ran into the free public presentation of this doctor's claim
that he had discovered the cure for fibromyalgia -- which turned out to
be the active ingredient of cough syrup (Robitussin et al), that I was
familiar with, having taken it many times in my life for the bouts of
bronchitis I suffered at least twice a year for several months,
alternating with back pain for several other months -- both of which can
be symptoms of fibromyalgia (FMS), which I was unfamiliar with at that
point.
But as I researched it more, along with guaifenesin and its effects,
many things came together for me, including that 15 years earlier, I
thought Robitussin did have remarkably healthful effects as a general
health tonic -- that should be promoted instead of Geritol for that
purpose. I felt so strongly about that that I purchased several
thousand shares of AH Robbins, the owner of the patent on guaifenesin on
the rumor that it was the cure for an undisclosed ailment.
Fibromyalgia became a well-known condition along with many other of
autoimmune conditions at that time -- but I sold my shares with the
stock market crash of 1987, and hadn't thought much about guaifenesin
until I ran into the headline in 2003 while in Waikiki, that the doctor
who discovered guaifenesin as the cure for fibromyalgia, was giving a
free introductory presentation at a hotel two blocks from where I lived
-- just before I felt compelled to move in with my mother just outside
of Waikiki -- because of my rapidly deteriorating condition.
The doctor did not original set out to discover the cure for
fibromyalgia; he was interested in the cure for gout -- for which the
medicine commonly prescribed for colds, flu and respiratory/bronchial
inflammations, turned out to be that same cure -- for a lot more
complicated and convoluted reasons, than simply the thinning of the
mucous -- being the cure for whatever ails one. That is to say, good
health is distinguished by thin mucous and poor health is characterized
by thickened mucous -- which is the essential fluidity (viscosity) of
the body fluid -- along with the blood, for which it has long been
recognized that thinning the blood also ensures its greatest operating
condition., for which many people routinely take aspirin, for its
blood-thinning property.
Together, aspirin and guaifenesin is the longstanding protocol for
colds, flus, respiratory ailments -- but what is less noticed at those
times, is that they are also accompanied by other body pains -- that
seem to go away with a cold, flu, etc. Guaifenesin can cause stomach
upset because it produces an acid reaction as well as thinning the
mucous that lines the digestive system. But Alka-Seltzer, which is a
longstanding remedy consisting of aspirin and sodium bicarbonate, had
for 50 years been the tonic of choice for anything that ailed one --
which led me to my present regimen of daily guaifenesin along with
Alka-Seltzer, as the supplementation that ensures one's health without
disruption as long as that regimen is routinely maintained.
As incredulous as that doctor's claim that he had discovered a simple
and cheap cure for fibromyalgia, it was clear to me that this was the
basis for virtually all the human ailments by this same simple process
-- and I haven't experienced any illnesses since adhering to that health
regimen -- after several decades of steadily declining health and
almost constant illness before then that led me to believe I would never
walk again. I haven't had so much as a cold since then -- though would
usually be the first person to catch somebody else's cold, flu, virus,
etc.
That was when I stopped being sick again.
