Testimonials

My name is Patricia and my guai birthday is April 1, 2013. My journey with fibromyalgia actually started at birth but I did not know that until I attended a lecture by Dr. Paul St. Amand at the University of Alberta hospital on October 13, 2012. My family physician had diagnosed me with fibromyalgia in 2000 and suggested I join a gym, since exercise was the only treatment he knew of to help with this disease, other than drugs to help with the pain, which I refused. I regularly saw the physiotherapist to work on my chronic back and neck issues and followed their advice for each body part affected with pain. My back, neck, shoulder, knees, elbows, feet were all affected and as I heard Dr. St. Amand I added my headaches, ringing ears, chronic TMJ pain and so much more to my list of complaints. In fact, I felt that I must have I glowed in the dark from all of the x-rays which had failed to diagnose my ailments. No diagnosis was ever made with the exception of fibromyalgia by my family physician. So who was this doctor from California who knew everything about me? Sitting in the lecture given by Dr. St.Amand I was immobilized as my brain tried to absorb all that I had heard. I could not comprehend what I had just heard since Dr. St. Amand clearly KNEW ME and we had never met. He had a power point presentation of all of MY symptoms, including some I had never voiced. I sat for about 10 minutes and then purchased the book “What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Fibromyalgia” and the rest of my life began. I read the book twice and booked an appointment with my own personal angel, Cheryl, to be mapped. I cannot say enough about what Cheryl has meant to me and so many others. This journey is not easy but it is so much easier having Cheryl to support any of us fortunate enough to have been helped by her. Of course my map showed several areas of deposit, but the most significant revelation was that only Cheryl, not my MD, Gynecologist or Proctologist could explain the painful lump in my groin. She said it was a lump of phosphate and after just a few months on the protocol it completely disappeared!

It is a learning curve starting the protocol but soon it just becomes normal and the benefits are SO worth it. The intense pain, lack of sleep, multiple symptoms such as burning tears, hair loss, bad nails and skin, digestive problems and heart palpitations are all gone or much so much better that I don’t think of them anymore! I am left with the lingering effects of osteo-arthritis because I was too old for the guaifenesin to prevent the damage already done to my joints. I know my journey to health is ongoing and it will take many more years for me to feel totally well but from my perspective I already feel well after suffering for so long. And now, when I smile I have eyebrows to frame my smiling, non- burning eyes.

For a lot of years of my adult life , I have had a lot of symptoms that included fatigue, aches, digestive issues, brain fog and tiredness to name but a few. When I went for medical check ups and tests, they would always came back as showing nothing wrong. I kept asking myself “then why do I feel so crappy?” Eventually, I was diagnosed by a Rheumatologist who said that I had fibromyagia, but other than give me a pamphlet to read (that indicated a lot of doctors thought it was all in an individual’s head), I was pretty much on my own. Luckily, I found out about Dr. St. Amand’s protocol, and began it in December, 2009. Cheryl had mapped me just before I started and again 3 months later. I am fortunate to be a “low dose quick responder”.

I have found my quality of life has improved a great deal since using the protocol. I generally have more energy, digestive issues are rare, aches are a seasonal thing now, (when colder weather comes on), my brain fog has lifted and I just generally feel better and feel that I can do so much more. Of course, I have to pace myself as when I feel good I just want to do everything and more! I cant thank Cheryl enough for her dedication to helping all of us with her support, sharing of her knowledge and enthusiasm to make a difference in our lives because she has benefited so much from Dr. St. Amand’s protocol too.

Have been taking guaifenesin for 14 years. The first two years were wasted as I was taking only Fast Acting- I felt terrible but I did not clear my left thigh as mapped by Dr. St. Amand. I commenced the long acting guaifenesin in 2004. The first five years were very difficult. At times I felt like there was no improvement- but I knew things were getting better slowly but surely. The Fibromyalgia Treatment Centre website was immeasurable in my recovery. They said I would improve and I had to believe it and improve I did. I followed the detailed recovery reports posted and these kept me going. Sometime around the five year mark I was able to walk a fair distance on soft soil- i.e. hiking in BC. My vulvadynia improved and I was able to wear pants. I slowly ramped up the exercise over the years and now I can do 15 minutes straight on my Nordic Track ski machine plus a whole lot of stretches. I now take only 5mg of amitriptyline compared to the 75 mg in the pre-guaifenesin days. I have experienced deep sleep- something I have not had since being a child.

Chronic fatigue has been with me for many years. I remember the early cycles as a child even. Some things that I couldn’t do like wring out a washcloth, lift my hands to wash my hair, walk, stand, bend over, sit, or simply do a series of household chores without being in terrible pain, are now a thing of the past.

First years on guaifenesin were awful- it felt like the flu everyday. Now it is so, so much better. I can do many things in a day including pushing a hand powered grass mower, vacuum the house, make dinner, garden, lift sod – and on it goes. Yes, I still do get a knock out session of chronic fatigue occasionally but it lifts after a day or a few hours depending on the situation.

I am still cycling. My feet do not like walking on cement- they hurt, as does my neck sometimes and my shoulder blades. Yes, other things hurt too- but it is nothing compared to the hellish life I lived before. I was able to add a bit more guaifenesin do my dosage around the 10 year mark and this has helped. The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook had also been a huge help. I use hard rubber balls and self massage into the trigger points.

The most difficult things for me are still emotionally difficult situations which knock me for a loop or dealing with a lot of people. I have learned what works for me and I am trying to stand by that. My eyes are giving me grief these days and so I religiously keep them clean with Lid Care Towlettes and Hylo Gel for moisture. I still go through periods of not sleeping well but I am able to function fine and after a few days I can enjoy a better quality sleep. I still take Zopiclone for sleep.

Having Cheryl heading up the Fibro Free Group in Edmonton has been a wonderful thing for me. Her help and guidance in addition to her monthly updates are a huge help for me as I continue on this journey of recovery. Thank-you Cheryl.

I also want to thank Kyle from the Estevan Pharmacy in Victoria. He is always willing to help. I hope he is there for a long long time.

Although I started on the guaifenesin late in life at age 66 years, I have seen some very positive results in the last 1-1/2 years. I have had chronic pain in my left hip for the past 15 years, have been to doctors, chiropractors, physiotherapists, acupuncture, been x-rayed, and nothing helped. I was unable to sleep on my left side for several years. Now I have almost no pain in my left hip and can sleep on it easily. Along with physical recovery, I am experiencing mental and emotional recovery as well. My brain fog started to lift as soon as I started the guai, and I now feel more present to my life. Before guai I felt very shut-down emotionally and now I have more access to my feelings and have more interest in life in general. I can speak again. Previous to taking the guai I was very brain-fogged and my tongue was swollen and sore, making speech difficult. Now my tongue has nearly returned to normal and I still have a little pain in it sometimes, and I see a great improvement.
I am looking foreward to more recovery as I continue on the guaifenesin protocol.

In 2005, I found the fibromyalgia support group through the Edmonton Journal’s article on Cheryl Kowalewski and the guaifenesin protocol. At that time I was starting to feel sicker than ever before even though I did not look sick, I felt just awful. I was getting worse. I was diagnosed in my early 40’s. To date I am 68 years old and am active and functioning at a much higher level than before, exercising at the gym 3 times a week ( I have a personal trainer) working part time and babysitting my little granddaughter once a week. I have my life back.
I am presently on 2600 mg of guai daily and I hate to think what my life would be like if I did not take guai and follow the protocol. I am very grateful for Dr. P. St. Amand and his protocol and also to Cheryl, our Guai. Leader. Our doctors need to be informed about this awful disease and how much misery it inflicts on patients, especially if some doctors do not make a point of being aware of the nature of this disease and the patient is left helpless and having to cope on their own.

I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in July of 2004. I had had two back surgeries (2000, and 2002) and was left with nerve damage in my right leg. I had a wonderful career in banking and my future looked very good until I had the back surgeries and didn’t seem to have gotten to the root of the problem. I couldn’t return to work and was very depressed. Luckily, my sister-in-law who knew of my fibromyalgia diagnosis saw an article in the Edmonton journal written by Cheryl Kowalewski telling her story about fibromyalgia and the Guaifenisen Protocol. I was so excited that I immediately took the article to my doctor and showed him. He kept it for a week or so and when I went back he was not receptive to it, so I didn’t pursue it at the time but it was always in the back of my mind. When there was another article written by Cheryl three years later about Doctor St. Amand coming to Edmonton, I had to see him in person.
After hearing his presentation and reading the book, I made an appointment to see Dr. St. Amand and that was the changing point in my life. I was convinced that this would work. I have gone from sleeping two to three hours a day, unable to go up and down stairs, not attending family functions, limited mobility, to a person who has got her life back, thanks to the protocol. I attend an exercise program two times a week and exercise at home and I volunteer at our Church Thrift Shop. I can clean my house, entertain my family, (which I couldn’t do for years). The fibro fog has cleared (oh yes there are set backs but that is nothing compared to what my limited life was before) but thanks to Dr. St. Amand and Claudia Marek I do have a life again and I am so grateful. My doctor prescribed guaifenesin for my even though he still doesn’t believe it. The Guaifenisen Protocol is my answer to fibromyalgia.

Hi my name is Clayton Johnson. I am 52 years old and I have Fybromyalgia. In 2005, I became very sick and unable to move much and in extreme pain all the time. It took nearly 3 years to get diagnosed, and became very frustrating. When I was finally diagnosed and told it was fibromyalgia I didn’t know what to think. The doctors that diagnosed me said sorry and good luck with it. As I became worse and worse I felt that soon I would be in a wheel chair, then I heard about the Fibrofree group in Edmonton and decided to go to a meeting and check it out.

In Oct., 2008 I went to my first meeting. I met others like me and found they were improving their life due to GUAIFENESIN and Dr. St. Amand’s protocol. I thought why not give it a try it can’t make me any worse. With the help of Cheryl and the protocol, I started my journey.

With Cheryl’s mapping ability and guaifenesin in hand, on Jan. 2, 2009 I began the process of gaining my life back. It took a lot of increased pain and encouragement from friends and family to continue but I wanted my life back. Within eight months of starting, I returned to work, started to coach ice hockey and by Christmas played hockey for the first time in six years. I had my life back! Now, three and a half years after starting the protocol, I feel like I never had the disease.

Never give up, hope is within reach.

I’m a 49 year old female with severe fibromyalgia, IBS, type 1 diabetes for 23 years, numerous food and chemical sensitivities and one kidney due to an accident in 2005. I had a lot of trouble with my health for years before losing a kidney, but after the positive effects of six pints of donor blood had worn off, I could not function at all. There was unbearable pain, extreme exhaustion, very poor quality sleep and insomnia, my hair and eyelashes were thin, TMJ, acne and splitting skin, frequent migraines, muscle/nerve twitches and spasms, heart palpitations, depression, poor memory and concentration, and a long, long list of other complaints. My blood sugars were not behaving as they should and I knew I had to find answers before my lone kidney gave out and poor blood sugar control resulted in irreparable damage. Then I found a GP in Edmonton who recommended the book that saved our son’s and my life– “What Your Doctor May not Tell You About Fibromyalgia” by R. Paul St. Amand and Claudia Marek. I struggled through it (took 6+ months and my comprehension was poor), started on the guaifenesin protocol in January, 2009 and our two sons (now 20 and 23) were diagnosed and started that same year.

They both have epilepsy and our older son was not able to control it with many different seizure medications we tried. He went off gluten, dairy, soy and corn as well and now has not had a seizure in two years. No more seizures for our younger son either. They are now both able to work and go to college, drive and have normal lives. My husband and I no longer live in fear every time they go somewhere. As for me, I no longer need 8 painkillers a day, which was not enough to control all the pain 3 years ago. In the past three weeks, I have taken a total of two during all that time! I can’t always go for a walk every day, but I do what I can. I can actually sleep the whole night without jolting awake many times and I wake up without severe pain. My concentration has improved so that I can have much more meaningful conversations without asking for repetitions and trying to remember words. I have even been able to read some books. Migraines are far less frequent. Blood sugars are getting better and I now understand that Fibromyalgia causes insulin resistance and far too much muscle tension and pain for decent control. A huge number of symptoms that I would not have associated with Fibromyalgia years ago are gradually going away because of guaifenesin. When my husband and I went to Marina Del Rey, California in April, 2012 for the first time, Dr. St. Amand was wonderful. He said I was clearing very well and he confirmed that my husband also has a mild case of FMS. My goal now is to help him to get on guaifenesin so he doesn’t continue to get worse. Because of the guaifenesin protocol, I now have confidence that my family can enjoy meaningful and good quality lives. I am extremely thankful for it and all those people who cared enough to help, support and educate my family and me. There is a huge difference if I miss a dose or block and I would never choose to be without it again. It is DEFINITELY worth the effort!

I last wrote about my fibromyalgia journey on guiafenisen in 2012. Life has been kind to me. I had another back surgery in 2014 and have come to realize that my back issues and fibromyalgia are often intertwined. I try to follow the motto “ if in doubt throw it out” and if I have made a mistake on a product I have used, it just teaches one to be more vigilant and to keep on the protocol without deviation. I have never found it to be a huge problem finding a sal -safe product and am thankful for the guide that this support group has for us to use and continue to check the ingredients before purchasing.

I urge beginners of the protocol not to be discouraged or put off trying the protocol for fear of using a wrong product because I think we learn from our errors and it is fun finding a product we can use on our own and promotes confidence. I have been fortunate to have the opportunity to take several family vacations in the past eight years and couldn’t think about going on a trip prior to being on the protocol. I can perform chores and take part in activities that once I didn’t have the energy too. I have gone to the same physician for 17 years, who still doesn’t endorse the Guaifenesin protocol, but he does respect me and knows that it works for me so he does prescribe my guiafenisen which I appreciate. I have never looked back or thought about trying anything else for fibromyalgia because for me the Guaifenesin protocol is the answer. I can’t thank Dr. St. Amand, Claudia Marek, and Cheryl Kowalewski enough for their unending dedication and work. Again, this protocol is my answer for fibromyalgia.

I had lost a career, husband and a home by the time I was in my 40s due in large part to chronic pain and fatigue from fibromyalgia and reactive hypoglycemia. As a single parent with two teenagers, and no support, I was desperate to remain employed in some regard, so when I read the book What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Fibromyalgia by R. Paul St. Amand, MD and Claudia Craig Marek, declaring the disease could be reversed, I was very hopeful.

I was careful to follow directions exactly and use only salicylate free topical products. I met several local people who also were on the guaifenesin protocol for fibromyalgia. Excellent support was also available online absolutely free, other women like me who had fibromyalgia and were using the protocol to reverse the illness and eliminate symptoms.

Within months, I could see signs of less pain and improved energy. I am a high dose slow responder, so it took time to find my appropriate dose and stick with it. It was thrilling to have my first full day pain free and energetic! Progress was up and down, but slowly symptoms improved here and there until many were simply gone one day, then another would pop up and cycle out until it also disappeared.

I returned to school and earned a degree in my new field, pursued my new career, paid off my home and raised my children. I joined the YMCA and do warm water aerobics several times a week. Eating a sugar free low carb diet for hypoglycemia has been and will continue to be half of my recovery program. Today, sixteen years after I began the guaifenesin protocol, I am semi-retired and love my life.

Guy Bishop grew up in the US in the Raleigh Durham area of North Carolina, and attended Montreat College near Asheville, North Carolina. Guy has lived in Japan for the past thirty years. The treatment Guy uses for fibromyalgia stops the progression of the disease, slowly putting it into a reversal process during which symptoms erupt and then disappear in a cyclical manner. His story has been edited for clarity. “At age 40 my muscles were really stiffening up and starting to hurt. I was beginning to have difficulty climbing stairs. I really thought that at this pace, I would not be able to walk within five years. Within a few years, exhaustion really began to set in. I had four kids under the age of 7 and was worried how they could be provided for. My wife was panicking as well. I started going to university hospitals for tests. They all said nothing was wrong and that my pain was just in my mind. One “expert” of fibromyalgia in Japan told me that because I was well enough to get to the hospital, that proved I didn’t have fibromyalgia.

I was desperate and now even bedridden some days. A mom from our daughter’s kindergarten told us about an “old fashioned” doctor who had helped her husband with exhaustion. I visited him at his very old clinic full of old equipment. He took my blood pressure the old-fashioned way. When he touched my wrist to take my pulse, he suddenly said, “Something is wrong with your muscles. They are not resting.”

I cried. The other doctors never touched me or even looked at me. This doctor could not give me the reason, but nevertheless, gave me some safe meds to get a few good nights of quality sleep. It was during this time that I discovered Dr. St. Amand’s homepage of the Fibromyalgia Treatment Center.

I visited the doctor again to show him about fibromyalgia. The doctor had also separately come to the same conclusion. He said Japanese doctors knew nothing about fibromyalgia. He asked me if he could observe me while on the guaifenesin protocol. Within six months, I had my first good days, and they were really good days. Within a year, I was having mostly good days and the diet for hypoglycemia made the remaining symptoms disappear. IBS, restless legs, fog, all the pain, shallow sleep, all fully disappeared.

I self-diagnosed my fibromyalgia around 2010 based solely on the information on Dr. St. Amand’s homepage http://www.fibromyalgiatreatment.com/. I was in Japan and hopeless. I started the guaifenesin protocol solely using the information on the doctor’s homepage. I checked all products the best I could using the internet. The guaifenesin protocol worked like clockwork. After I started having some really good days, I decided to take him up on the liberal diet for hypoglycemia to help with HG symptoms, many of which overlap with fibromyalgia symptoms. Again, only with the information freely available. My life improved drastically. Then, I stumbled across the online question-and-answer forum at the time, wondering if I would get a response. Within a few hours, there was a response that was very informative.

I had never visited Dr. St. Amand and he and his assistants had never received a penny from me. I was recovering solely through their free help. I finally bought the book What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Fibromyalgia just because I wanted this doctor to benefit some way financially from me. Following my recovery in 2010-2011, I was accepted into grad school at the University of Southern California. The day before my acceptance, Japan experienced the huge tsunami and earthquake. Our lives were turned upside down. I decided to do their full masters in a year program. I did the full two year curriculum in a year while working 60-hour weeks. The guaifenesin protocol had given my physical life back as well as the motivation to do the things I dreamed of. I graduated a year later with a 4.0. The private school where I had just put my kids collapsed due to many horrible crimes by the director. They begged me to take it over. I became headmaster of a K12 school and spent the next several years rebuilding it. My passion is for kids in trouble or abandoned. I already had a dream of building a “Peace Village” with an orphanage and a high-quality educational academy. This was the boot camp of training for my dream. We closed out the collapsed school and opened a new school, Shion Christian International School. We began to attract many families of kids with deep problems who could not function in the public system. We started to see depressed and even suicidal kids set free. Many of the families couldn’t pay. We bankrupted ourselves for a season to keep it afloat. When the former school collapsed, there was a lot of pain to deal with. Families and children had been betrayed and were hurt. Sometimes, they took it out on us. My wife once said to me, “You can handle this because of the pain of fibromyalgia you experienced for years. Anyone else would have run away.” I think she was right. And of course, I could never have had the physical and psychological strength to do this without the guaifenesin protocol.

March (2020) we closed the school for two years. We moved and are hoping to reopen it on land that will become Peace Village. January 4th I will officially register a nonprofit corporation in Japan called Education for Orphans. It will be the umbrella to cover our school, an orphanage, our café, and our ministry in Uganda to build orphanages and schools. We have been there twice already. I was so much better and became so overwhelmingly busy that I went off the guaifenesin protocol after two years. Then the symptoms began to gradually reappear. I have a few months now of unemployment insurance, so I am back on the horse, currently in the worst part of reversal symptoms. I should start seeing better days again soon. I will never go off the guaifenesin protocol again. I am so grateful for Dr. St. Amand. My real life began the day I started the guaifenesin protocol.”

Thank you, Claudia Marek and all the administrators, (who answer questions online about the treatment known as the guaifenesin protocol) and of course, Dr. St. Amand. It is unreal that such a lifesaving protocol is free for the taking and with a free advisory forum to boot! All the money I would have had to spend on health care is now being poured into orphanages around the world!!!

My name is Deb Brandt. I work full time at a busy Urgent Care (a Physician’s Assistant) where the average number of patients is about 85 per day. I always work the evening shift so I generally don’t ever get home until after 7:30 every night. It truly is great to finally have a life. If it were not for guaifenesin, Dr. St. Amand, Claudia and the rest of you out there, I would still be ill and tired. I completely reversed as of September, 2005, so now (March 2010) it has been about 4 ½ years of complete absence of fibromyalgia symptoms/syndromes. I just wish this protocol had been around when I was twenty. I would have had the world by the tail with a downhill pull! All my days are good now, so I don’t have to make plans with provisions, in case, for some reason, I wouldn’t have the energy or would feel too achey to participate. Having fibro is like having a huge boulder on your foot. Instead of taking/using chemical band-aids to deal with the pain and symptoms, I got the bounder off my foot and got well. When I started the guaifenesin protocol 14 years ago, there was a lot of information about it yet to be discovered and I readily admit that I did not know what I was doing. Just by luck and the grace of my higher power, I started on my basic cycling dose (600 mg. 3 times a day) on the first day. I am (luckily) in the ten percent of guaiers who feel better right away. On the fourth day of treatment, I awakened to discover that I had no muscle pain at all. To this day, the only time I have achiness is if I block or forget to take my guaifenesin until late in the day. I know literally within two hours of an exposure to a salicylate that I have blocked. I also want to strongly stress that I am in the minority, if not the only guai participant that reacts this way. The advantage to this rapid response is that I can easily track the offending item and avoid it in the future. I have had no one to ever map me. I did keep a symptom journal for a short time, but since by pain was always a ‘0’ I quit logging my progress after a couple of weeks.

I am also very hypoglycemic, noting a non-fasting blood sugar of 43 once at work (normal 70 – 100) about seven years before I discovered the protocol and hypoglycemic diet. I also admit that I am such a sugar/carb addict that I was very resistant to starting the HG diet until I had been on the protocol eight months. My distorted rationale was that I could deal with a little fatigue if I didn’t have any muscle pain. Once I started the diet, however, I discovered that my energy level shot up through the roof and there was no way to stop me from doing anything I wanted to do. I finally found a life I had never experienced. I had energy and no muscle pain. I felt ‘normal.’ Prior to guai, if I were to institute a new exercise routine, I would be in excruciating pain for a full seven days before I would begin to feel better. I generally kept a regular exercise routine to avoid this kind of discomfort. I actually thought this was a normal and common occurrence until my best friend and I went horseback riding for a prolonged (6 hours) time one spring. Both of us could barely walk the next day at work. Three days later I could still barely walk and she was back to normal. I was, I thought, in better shape because I exercised regularly and she did not. It finally dawned on me that I had some kind of a muscle problem as the cause. This was before I even knew I had fibro. Now, I have a normal response to exercise. I am stiff and sore for the normal day afterwards but am fine by the third day. It is incredible not to be afraid of exercise! Prior to guai, it took a full weekend to clean my house. My husband thought I was just lazy because he could do it in two hours.

I explained that my efforts at cleaning had to be broken down into small tasks with a fifteen minute rest break in between each miniscule task. Now my house is still messy, but it is because I am too busy to clean house. I wised up a couple of years ago and hired a housekeeper so at least the main living area looks presentable. Prior to guai, I had lost several friendships. I had become an undependable person, and it takes energy to maintain relationships. We would make plans on a day that I was feeling well and then I would break them because I felt too awful on the day of the planned event. When you make and break plans consistently, people lose faith in you and quit asking. Before you know it, your friendship is gone. Now I am making new friends that don’t know I was ever ill. Now I can make plans for the future knowing it will be a good day, because they are all good days. Prior to guai, I had migraine headaches, IBS, and of course, insomnia. One by one, these afflictions have disappeared. I now sleep uninterrupted, unless one of my minpins has to go out at night. My other dog is a Welsh Corgi and he sleeps in his crate.

I haven’t had a migraine in over six years and my GI system has normalized. The mental fogginess is, and has been, gone for a long time. The ONLY medication I take for fibromyalgia is guaifenesin. I have not missed a single day in fourteen years of taking it. These past fourteen years have been a journey I never thought I could accomplish. The guai protocol DOES work and I am living proof. Has it been a sacrifice?

Yes, I have sacrificed pain, mental fogginess, fatigue and all the other significant annoyances/illnesses associated with fibromyalgia. I have not had to experience side effects associated with the traditional medications used for fibromyalgia. I am a productive citizen working full time in a job that I love. I am able to enjoy my family, dogs, cats, ride my horses, and take care of my chickens. My oldest daughter and son-in-law are expecting a baby and I look forward to loving a grandchild and living my life to the fullest extent that I never would have had I not found the protocol when I did. I chose to get well when it would have been easier to remain ill and take chemical band-aids. I am very proud of myself for staying the course and reversing this dreaded ailment. It does get easier the longer you follow it, so hang in there newbies. Follow the advice of the administrators and do the protocol exactly as it is written. Just in case any of you hears that this medication (guaifenesin long acting) isn’t safe to take long term, I just had my annual lab done and all of my chemistries were normal! My energy level is through the roof! Whenever anyone asks me if the protocol is difficult to do, I answer that I chose to do whatever it took to get well. This protocol is now second nature. Gentle hugs and I hope you have symptom free days forever!