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Concurrent ConditionsIn our commitment that no-one with this symptom cluster be left
behind because they did not fit preconceived ideas of what was happening
to them, we addressed each individual's specific needs. In time,
it became apparent that we needed to address more than the problems
created by calcium phosphate accumulation. How often concurrent
conditions needed to be addressed is found at the page titled homeopathics
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When a study done at the University of Oregon showed no positive
effect in taking guaifenesin for FM, Dr. P. St. Amand countered
that the study protocol neglected the exclusion of topical salicylic
acid and did not take into account concurrent conditions of hypoglycemia.
The study results did not show a change in uric acid levels, indicating
salicylic acid was not likely a confounding factor. Our experience
suggests that there may be a number of concurrent problems besides
hypoglycemia that were unidentified and that could have interfered
with the Oregon study's outcome. Both that study and Custom Homeopathics
use the FIQ as a primary outcome measure. This instrument, by its
nature, will only report change if people feel better, and we have
found it to have less sensitivity to smaller changes. It is possible
to have improvement in calcium phosphate accumulation without that
impacting how a person feels. If there is a concurrent condition
to FM with essentially the same symptoms, such as mercury toxicity,
viral infection, hypoglycemia, or a number of other possibilities,
any improvement in the FM may not result in a person feeling better
and may not be reflected in the FIQ scores. Dr. P. St. Amand has
commented that his patients can appear to be reversing their phosphate
deposits without feeling better until they also go on the hypoglycemic
diet. Similarly, we found repeatedly that when the FIQ showed minimal
improvement after three months, even when people were following
the hypoglycemic diet, that there was a concurrent problem that
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