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My Progress on Guaifenesin
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On 21 August I forgot to take my morning dose, or to take the evening dose with
me to Auckland, as I knew I was going to be out for dinner that night before I
went home. I decided that this was a good time to take a little break from guai
before I switched to the new capsules.
and Donna has confirmed for me that I am now clearing nicely, on half the
dose I'd needed with Caraco.
showing great progress! Now if I can just keep from blocking by touching
all the grass around here!
Update 04 May 2004 It's been quite some time, almost a year and a half in fact, since I last posted an update here. So much has happened in my life since then. Early in 2003, my mother was diagnosed with cancer, and she died as a result of that on 14 October 2003. Much of that year was spent running down to Auckland as often as I could, to be with her, take her to appointments, and generally do everything I could for her.
For the most part, my health held up well against this onslaught. It is about an hour's drive from my home to Mum's place in Auckland, mostly on open, windy, country roads with speed limits of 100kph(~60mph); I quickly cottoned-on to the idea of planning my week so that I traveled with Nigel - I drove down in the mornings, and he drove me home in the evenings. That made a huge difference to how I coped with the stress of all the travel.
There were one or two occasions through the year when I had to stop this traveling and running around, and just rest, because I could feel myself becoming ill, in that old, very familiar, way that I hadn't experienced in a long time. A few days' rest, and I was ready to go again, albeit cautiously.
My New Year's Resolution for 2003 was to start and keep a symptom journal. I'd never been particularly successful at that before, but felt it was something I should make a better attempt at, in the journey towards wellness. One major stumbling-block for me is that my symptoms have always been subtle, so I might not notice what is going on within me until it is well past. I made an honest attempt to keep the diary, but in all honesty I failed in the end. The last major entries are mid-September 2003, and after that are just a few comments like "visit Mum, drove both ways" or "visit Mum, Nigel drove home". The very last entry in that diary noted that I was staying the night with her so I could take her to an appointment in the morning; she never returned home from that outing, but was admitted to hospital and died almost two weeks' later. I just couldn't face it any more after that, and have not attempted to keep such a diary this year.
The diary shows some ups and downs, but nothing that at the moment I find useful. Maybe I'll attempt it again one day, or find something useful in the notes I made; right now they tend to be a painful reminder of what happened last year.
I took my last dose of the NZ-compounded guai on 15 May 2003. With everything going on around me, it took a little time to get around to ordering another supply; eventually I decided to try Fludan's capsules, and started on that on 29 July 2003. I started from the beginning again, titrating up from 300mg x2 daily, watching my symptoms and also experimenting with urine testing as I titrated. I was showing good clearing by the urine testing at 900mg daily, but decided to try raising my dose to 1200mg daily; it took me a week to realise that I wasn't coping on this higher dose and dropped back to 900mg daily. I had maps done during this time, but right this minute they are not to hand. I will include them at a later date.
When I was finished with the bottle of Fludan capsules, I decided to try GuaiLife's guai. I had had great sucess with Fludan, and thoroughly recommend it to anyone wanting to follow the protocol, but wanted to try another brand, simply because I could.
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