Re: help for chronic fatigue!

Hi ntrlman

Try 600mg of Guaifenesin, up to two times a day if needed, it is made from the guaicum plant, and is used by a lot of people with FMS and CFS.
Sold in health stores under the name Guai or Guaii.
I also suggest you take high doses of buffered vitamin C (ascorbate). Start with 6000mg and work up to 10,000 a day.
Have you been tested for Lyme disease? the symptoms are very similar

There are Support Forums on the internet for people with CFS/FMS on guaifenesin therapy.

There is also Support Forums for people that have Chronic-Fatigue-Syndrome or FMS caused by taking doses of anti-biotics that are Flouroquinalones.

Flouroquinalones (Quinolones) are:
Avelox
Cipro
Cipro I.V.
Floxin 8
Floxin I.V.
Levaquin
Maxaquin
Noroxin
Tequin

Example:
Summary:

Analysis of 45 cases in which fluoroquinolone Antibiotics (including 11
cases involving ciprofloxacin) were associated with adverse effects
involving the peripheral nervous system. Adverse effects involving other
systems occurred in 42 (93%) of these patients: 78% also experienced central
nervous system (CNS) symptoms, 73% reported musculoskeletal symptoms and in
18%-42% of cases the cardiovascular and gastrointestinal systems, skin, and
special senses were involved.

2 cases were mild (4%), 7 moderate (16%), and 36 severe (80%) with chronic
pain and/or significantly limited normal function. Twelve cases (27%) lasted
longer than 2 years. These severe, long-term reactions occurred in a
generally young and healthy population. 62% had no other medical
disorder except the infection that prompted fluoroquinolone therapy.

The cases presented here, as well as previously published
articles about the adverse effects of fluoroquinolones, should give
physicians pause before using fluoroquinolones unnecessarily.

Patients must be informed that with the development of any
musculoskeletal, or peripheral or central nervous system symptoms,
fluoroquinolone treatment should be discontinued immediately unless
medical circumstances (eg, severe infection and no alternative
treatment) warrant otherwise. Patients sustaining these reactions
should not receive fluoroquinolone Antibiotics in the future.

Full Medscape News text:
http://www.medscape.com/MedscapeWire/2001/11/medwire.1102.Peripheral.html
http://www.cfids-cab.org/cfs-inform/Mycoplasma/ciproxin.neuropathy01.txt
http://www.immunesupport.com/library/showarticle.cfm/ID/3182/T/CFIDS_FM/searc...
http://www.mercola.com/2001/nov/21/peripheral_neuropathy.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoroquinolones
http://www.fqresearch.org/pdf_files/cipro_england_adrs.pdf
http://www.fqresearch.org/teo_text.htm
http://www.geocities.com/drugs2008/
http://www.essentialdrugs.org/edrug/archive/200111/msg00013.php
http://www.healthscout.com/rxdetail/68/114/3/main.html
New Warnings added to the Fluoroquinolones
http://www.answers.com/topic/new-warnings-added-to-the-fluoroquinolones
Quinolones (ciprofloxacin 500 - 750 mg bid po [Cipro], enoxacin, grepafloxacin [Raxar], lomefloxacin, norfloxacin [Noroxin], ofloxacin [Floxin], nalidixic acid): } interfere with DNA gyrase to block transcription and DNA replication, rapidly bactericidal } frequent spontaneous resistance mutation, not plasmid-encoded } Gram positives 5- to 10-fold less susceptible than Gram negative enterics } do not use during pregnancy or lactation or in young children because of risk of damage to growing cartilagehttp://inst.sfcc.edu/~dsimon/chem/formulary.html



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