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"I'm On a Roll."
I was probably one of Dr. Penniston’s greatest skeptics and it took a lot to
bring me to a turnaround. I truly did not believe—I wanted to believe—but I
truly did not believe that the guaifenesin protocol was going to help me.
I’ve been on guaifenesin for four months and I just feel wonderful. I am now
remembering what it’s like to feel normal. It’s not a feeling of illness,
but of health. I feel like I’m on a roll and I’m gonna stay there!
I’ve had comments from customers and business associates. They want to know
what drugs I’m taking because they had not even seen me smile for about six
months. The range of motion in my joints has improved to the point where
people are making comments like “Obviously, you are feeling better!”
I have had fibromyalgia since age seven. I have had constant fungal
infections for years at a time, bladder infections and constant back pain
the past five years. From the mapping Dr. Penniston did, I could see that it
is phosphate that collected around the rib cage causing much of my back
pain.
In the three months I’ve been taking guai and going to Dr. P, my depression
is fairly well gone and my energy level is back to normal. My pain level has
actually increased, because of cycling, but I find it easy to deal with
because I understand why it’s happening; that the phosphate is moving around
in my body in order to eliminate itself. I still have quite a bit of pain
but, with the increase of energy and decrease in depression, I find it much
easier to deal with pain.
I’m exercising more and, because I feel better emotionally, I can accept the
pain involved in a larger range-of-body motion. Exercise gets the body
juices going in the right direction and I think, being able to do some
exercise and that I can increase my range of motion is a really healthy
feeling.
Every time I do something now that I couldn’t do six months ago, I’m not
only happy, I’m euphoric. I climb a mountain every single day. Every day,
there is some new physical thing I can accomplish. This has been going on
for a couple of months but I wasn’t ready to talk about it yet. I was
waiting for the boot to drop and for it to all fail, but it hasn’t. If I
don’t go any further than all this, I’m really pleased.
I’m now going out every evening and working in my yard. For ten years I was
not able to get up in the morning without taking three hours to get dressed
and ready. Now, I have a normal wake-up day every morning. It’s not perfect.
I have two or three days a month where it’s bad, but before, every day was
bad. I used to have one or two good days a month and then it got to where I
had no good days, ever.
I didn’t really believe that this would work but, after looking at the
website, guailife.com, and reading Dr. St. Amand’s book, I decided to give
it a try. It was the only thing I had read that sounded logical and answered
questions no one else had been able to answer. Even though it didn’t make
sense to me unconsciously, it made sense consciously. It was either try this
or go out of my mind. After talking with a lot of fibro patients who were
losing their careers or had lost their careers as I did mine, I felt the
only alternative was to end my life. I know there are a lot of fibro
patients who feel that way. At my store I know quite a few of my clientele
have fibro. The thought of ending your life is not because you’re not strong
enough. It’s the bad treatment that we’ve received from the medical field in
not believing us, in ignoring us, in referring us to specialist after
specialist, knowing that nothing will come of it.
In the beginning, the guai aggravated my depression and aggravated the pain,
but now the depression is lifting. Cycling through the pain is worth the
battle to get to the point to get well.
Dr. Penniston is a great doc! I highly recommend anyone living in Arizona to
travel whatever distance it takes to come to Tucson and consult with Dr.
Penniston. There are additional benefits of going through the guai protocol
with a chiropractor/kinesiologist. I really feel that a lot of the increase
of energy is due to the supplements he is giving me in relation to the
fibro—and you don’t get that with an M.D. I already knew that stress can eat
up your vitamins and I was taking supplements but wasn’t always taking the
right things in the best way. I’m sure that my depression isn’t completely
gone and yet I imagine I’m as well in that regard as the average person on
the street.
It makes me feel very secure that the people in Dr. Penniston’s office truly
understand fibromyalgia and in many cases have been there. I don’t have
these skeptical looks of “here comes the hypochondriac, again”. It’s
comforting to know that there are people in the world that understand what
this is all about.
Dr. Penniston says I haven’t seen anything yet, that I’m just beginning the
upgrade process. I told him my goal is to hike the trail at Sabino Canyon
and get back to hiking and climbing again. If it goes as successfully as it
has so far, I feel confident I will be doing that.
The way I feel now is the difference between night and day. It happened very
quickly for me. I just woke up one morning, after about 3 months of taking
the guai, feeling better and have been feeling better ever since. I’m a
people person and I find it’s easier for me to listen to people now because
I’m not so engrossed in my illness. The comfort of not being engrossed in my
illness is just wonderful.
I have at least one success every day and that’s enough for me. It can be as
little as going in and immediately falling asleep, or getting up and
starting my day in a normal way, or that I can work out in the sun…Those are
my mountains.
I go thru euphoric stages, but this is not euphoria. Granted, I’m ecstatic
because of my successes, but I don’t think I’m over emphasizing the
euphoria. This is my daily life now and I like it. Yay!
Sandi Wright
Age 57
Fibro since age 7
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