Tamp down immune over reactions with less Omega-6 fats, more Omega-3 fats, Vitamin D, and antioxidants.
The drugs they give to calm down I mine systems though are really rugged drugs that create problems their own. Most will endure them ok, but some, especially those who are weak and sick in the first place, could have a harder time with the drugs. BUT it’s worth a try to see if the drugs can be tolerated
DUH!
Fibromyalgia is from chronic magnesium deficiency
One more reason why I love FR. People posting news like this.
My wife has fibro and now we have hope.
About 20 years ago, I was suffering from debilitating back pain that led me to believe that I would never walk again very shortly. That and chronic bronchitis had plagued me all my life. Either one condition or the other had compromised me.
Then one day, I saw an article proclaiming that Guaifenesin was a cure for Fibromyalgia (FMS), and the pioneer in this discovery Dr. Raymond Paul St. Amand, was going to present a free presentation on his (guaifenesin) protocol in a Waikiki hotel. I was not familiar with FMS but was intimately familiar with guaifenesin because that’s what I took for chronic bronchitis — with the caveat not to overconsume it as the bottles warned.
Most of the people attending the presentation seemed to be FMS patients familiar with the doctor’s guaifenesin protocol — to which I noted that despite their reporting crippling pain, they actually seemed younger and healthier than the average population for their ages. That convinced me of something.
But even before hearing the presentation, I went out and got myself a few bottles of guaifenesin (cough syrup), so by the time the presentation came around, I reported that I suspected that guaifenesin cured not only FMS — but all the autoimmune conditions, as well as all illnesses — because the one characteristic effect — is to thin the mucus in the body, which most people are familiar with from taking it when they have a respiratory congestion due to the thickening of the mucus in the lungs.
However, it is logical to believe that guaifenesin has that effect not only for the mucus in the respiratory tract — but throughout the body, and thinning it as much as possible, has a favorable health effect no matter what the diagnosis. But my main takeaway from that presentation, was that despite the dire warning, guaifenesin could be taken in liberal quantities indefinitely — with beneficial effects for anybody suffering from any condition thickening the mucus — which are white blood cells attacking pathogens.
But Dr. St. Amand and associates, were adamant that they had the cure for FMS only, and to cure any other autoimmune condition, one had to see that specific specialist — and they might have a cure specifically for that disease.
So it is a lot like the thinking that requires a specific cure or vaccination for each thing that could go wrong in a body rather than a much more enlightened and less profitable model of treating each symptom as a universe all its own, rather than the belief that whatever improves the general health (immunity) of the body, is protective even against the latest unknown disease the specialists can claim as uniquely their own turf and expertise.
What food sources would you recommend?
It’s a “disease” of psycho western women. It’s now small coincidence that Lyrica is one of the main drugs used to treat it. That’s also a drug used for anxiety.
many consider fibromyalgia to be a SYMPTOM of some other underlying disorder, usually an autoimmune disorder, and often a treatable disorder that isn’t being treated or is undertreated, such an hypothyroidism from Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis ...
btw, it’s difficult to get enough magnesium in your diet ... mag supplement should be magnesium compound that is fully reacted chelated with an amino acid because they’ll absorb better and not cause diarrhea, which actually causes even more mag to be lost (many laxatives are nothing more than inorganic mag compounds) ... a good chelated mag is magnesium taurate because taurine is good for the heart ... cheap mag compounds actually cause ... another thing is if someone really is seriously deficient in mag, it’s very difficult to build up mag levels even with supplements, and knowledgeable docs will actually start the buildup with IV mag ...