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  • Management for Fibromyalgia

  • Guaifenesin

  • Coping with Fibromyalgia

  • Colostrum - Nature's First Food

  • GH4 ~ Advanced Rx Technology

  • Sleep, Rest, Massage, Magnets & Exercise

  • Diet & Weight Management
  • UltraDiet
  • FibreMax
  • Omega 3,6 & 9 - Flaxseed Oil
  • Gymnema Sylvestre
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  • Supplements & Nutrition
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  • Malic Acid

  • Co-enzyme Q10

  • Noni - Morinda citrifolia
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  • Trigger Point Therapy

  • Chiropractic

  • DHEA

  • Nitric Oxide

  • Thyroid Disease

  • Other Research

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    Coping with Fibromyalgia

  • 21 Ways to Cope With Fibromyalgia
    This article has been adapted for people in New Zealand from ‘The Arthritis News’ published in England.

  • A Guide for Relatives and Companions
    These extracts have been taken from ‘Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain Syndrome’ by Devin Starlanyl M.D.
  • OOS and the Law
    "It is the employer's job to ensure, as far as is reasonably practicable by the provision of appropriate office furniture, supervision and open systems of communication between the staff and designated persons, that the development of this debilitating and it seems in many cases, semi-permanent set of symptoms are avoided."
  • Pain Scale for Fibromyalgia
    A chart for pain levels that are experienced after taking your daily medication, prescribed by your doctor.
  • Some Advice For Partners of People With Fibromyalgia
    I was reflecting the other night on the last few years I've spent learning to live with fibromyalgia. Only in the last two years have I learned to cope with the symptoms. Coping, to me, is being able to live a relatively "normal" life.
  • Think Before You Speak
    When you're depressed, the last thing you need is for people around you to make comments that minimize your feelings. Remind yourself which comments you should listen to and which you should block out! You may just want to point others to these lists of the worst and best things to say to someone who's miserable and feeling depressed.

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    Click here to order all Dr. Paul St. Amand's books and for tapes, videos & CDs on Fibro & Guai, direct from Dr St Amand's Treatment Center

    Click here to access Dr. Paul St. Amand's website and information on Fibromyalgia & Guaifenesin & join The Official Guaifenesin Protocol & News Online GUAIGROUP

    International Guai-Support Group, edited by Tesa Marcon, with email forums for discussion on Guai

    The UK-FMS-GUAI Website is a Yahoo discussion group for UK based FMS sufferers who are on the Guaifenesin Protocol or considering using it
     
     
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    Guaifenesin
  • See "Guaifenesin"
    A full section on Guaifenesin, how to use it, sal-free products and other's experiences in New Zealand, to help you handle FM syndrome with Guaifenesin.
  • ‘What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Fibromyalgia’
    The revolutionary treatment that can reverse the disease – read the book by author, R Paul St Amand MD and Claudia Craig Marek. Click on the book (graphic to the left) to buy.
  • Contacts, Websites, Books, Vidoes and Tapes for Guaifenesin
  • My Guaifenesin Story
    Our Senior Guaifenesin Mentor Megan from Gisborne writes her personal success story.
  • A Letter from Fiona
    Fiona writes a letter about Guaifenesin and the difference it has made to her life
  • Guaifenesin for Fibromyalgia
    Reader Amber G, of North Shore researched Guaifenesin on the Internet. This was written in 1999 when there were only five people in New Zealand being aided by their doctors to import Guai and help them relieve their Fibromyalgioa symptoms. Now there are over seventy people using Guai in New Zealand.

  • AN EXTENSIVE REPORT
    A Randomized, Prospective, 12 Month Study to Compare the Efficacy of Guaifenesin versus Placebo In the Management of Fibromyalgia
    Principal Investigators:  Robert M. Bennett, MD, FACP, FRCP, FACR Professor of Medicine and Chairman Division of Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA; Sharon R. Clark, Ph.D., FNP Assistant Professor of Medicine OHSU and Associate Professor of Nursing OHSU; Co-Investigator:  Pat De Garmo MUP, RN, ANP; Study Advisor: Paul St. Amand MD, (UCLA).
    This is the most extensive research in the world done with fibromyalgia to date.
    At the time of these studies, the effect of salicylates was unknown rendering the results null and void, as with the following study. Finance is being accumulated for another Guaifenesin study.

  • 'SPECULATION as to the mechanism whereby some of Dr. St. Amand's Fibromyalgia patients experienced improvement while taking Guaifenesin' by Dr. Robert Bennett, Professor of Medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University

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    Advanced Rx Products. UltraGH4
    Advanced Rx
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    Superior Absorption
    Eternal Youth?
    Deep Sleep
    Look & Feel Like 35
    Growth Hormone Therapy
    An Amazing Recovery

     

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    GH4 - Advanced Rx Technology

  • Doctors Comment On Growth Hormone Therapy
    "Growth hormone therapy provides effective relief of most symptoms related to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in a prospective patient-centered outcome study,"
    and     "Low levels of growth hormone observed in Fibromyalgia patients make them more susceptible to muscle trauma occurring during the day that cannot be repaired at night."
  • Eternal Youth: To Be or Not To Be?
    A worldwide medical breakthough which gives significant physical, mental and emotional benfits. Using natural and organic ingredients only, the aging process and thus the body's degeneration and illness may be reversed, resulting in increased vitality and energy.

  • Latest Technology for Superior Absorption of Supplements
    Did you know most nutritional supplements are NOT manufactured to pharmaceutical standards and are eliminated as expensive waste?

  • Look and Feel Like You're 35 Again
    There's now scientific proof you can control the aging process and turn back the clock naturally. The regeneration of cells in the body and organs gives vitality and energy.

  • An Amazing Recovery With GH4
    From being born with ‘dismature’ organs, which were not fully developed and ill most of her life, ME sufferer and reader Suzie W. of Mt Eden tells – "In no way was I prepared for how I would feel for the first time in my life!"

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    Klass Vaki Support Systems (NZ) Ltd Klass Vaki Support Systems (NZ) Ltd
    Klass Vaki
    Klass Vaki is a Woman
    Petra's History
    Put Pain to Bed
    Sleep Pain Away
    Letters of Hope
    Jill's Story
     
    A New Concept
    A Scientific Discovery
    Research
    Price List
    A Letter from Jill

    Sleep, Rest, Massage & Exercise

  • Good Nights: How to Sleep Well Without Drugs
    Perhaps you toss and turn in bed every night or maybe you sleep, but can't maintain the deep sleep needed for rejuvenation. Sleep problems are among the most common complaints associated with fibromyalgia.

  • Miki's Magnetic Miracle
    Miki Gildenlore has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Here she writes about her life before she was successfully diagnosed with EDS & FM, and her deterioration into a wheelchair. Then, she tells how she went from the wheelchair marathon in New York and wheelchair dancing at the Sydney Olympics to marriage and the miracle of being able to walk again.

  • My Magnetic Answer to Fibro: Anita Writes
    Anita tells of her journey to finding a Magnetic answer for her Fibro.
  • Deep Sleep: A Reader Writes
    Janice is excited about the latest technology that is giving her natural deep, refreshing sleep.

  • Therapeutic Touch - Massaging Our Inner Energy
    Therapeutic Touch (TT) - a means of stroking, rearranging and redirecting energy taught in more than 80 colleges and universities around the world. In North America alone, 37,000 registered nurses are practising TT in operating rooms, cancer wards, delivery rooms, intensive care units, pediatric wards, emergency rooms and hospices.

  • New Technology Great News for Pain
    Action Potential Simulation – hailed as a medical breakthrough! APS Therapy is the latest development in health technology and relates to the treatment of pain.
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    Trigger Point Therapy

  • Virginia's Story
    "I was sent home with pain and no hope. Depression was my companion......"  
    Virginia's version of trigger point therapy that you can do at home, by yourself.   She learnt from reading and understanding the book: “The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook” by Mr Clair Davies.

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    Chiropractic

  • Chiropractors link Fibromyalgia to Thyroid Diseases
    Background review of paper presented by Drs Lowe and Honeyman-Lowe at the International Conference of the French Fibromyalgia Association in Grenoble on 6 May 2000
  • Fibromyalgia and Thyroid Disease
    Full text of the Paper given at Grenoble on 6 May 2000

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    Other Research
  • Two Research Papers
    "Both Pain and EEG responses to cold pressor stimulation occurs faster in Fibromyalgia Patients than in control subjects" and "Toxicant-induced loss of tolerance"
  • Sleeping Bear.
    Interesting research into conserving muscle strength.
  • Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS)
    A common, chronic musculoskeletal pain disorder of unknown etiology and recognized as an important clinical problem associated with high levels of functional disability, emotional distress, and utilization of several types of medical services.
  • Immunology in Fibromyalgia/CFS - contains excellent references
    Traditionally, laboratory testing for 'immunology in disease,' including in FM and CFS, has concentrated on measuring the number, kind and activity of immune cells (lymphocytes and monocytes) and defining antibodies and their quantity. Lately however, testing for cytokine quality and quantity, including their secretion from immune cells, has become more important.
  • Immune Activity and Fibromyalgia – a study
    The association between fibromyalgia and the immune system with the portion of the brain involved in pain perception, emotion and attention was striking. The findings provide clues as to how the brain understands and communicates immune activity to our body, as well as its regulatory role in the whole process.
  • Celebrex
    The first COX-2 specific inhibitor approved by U.S. Food and Drug Administration, FDA, for the treatment of Osteoarthritis and adult Rheumatoid arthritis.
  • Glucosamines: A Remedy for Arthritis??
     Glucosamines occur naturally in our bodies as a kind of sugar; they're a component of soft connective tissues that join bones and joints and tie skin and organs together. They're also a key element in the production of cartilage, the tough, springy material covering bone ends in joints-the same stuff eroded by arthritis.

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    Thyroid Diseases

  • Chiropractors Link Fibromyalgia to Thyroid Diseases.
     In May 2000, DC’s John Lowe and Gina Honeyman-Lowe traveled to Grenoble and Toulon, France as representatives of the U.S. Fibromyalgia Research Foundation to present a paper that contends up to 90% of Fibromyalgia patients have underlying thyroid disease.

  • Fibromyalgia and Thyroid Disease A research paper by Drs John Lowe and Gina Honeyman-Lowe. The clinical features and symptoms of fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) and hypothyroidism are virtually the same. Inadequate thyroid hormone regulation also plausibly mediates the documented features of FMS.

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