
You got the "lumps"?
One of the main diagnostic tools which Dr. St. Amand uses to determine if a patient is correctly responding to guaifenesin, is by examining lumps which he detects on a patient. He maps the body for such lumps. While the definition of fibromyalgia includes the presence of tender points in the body, these points are not necessarily lumpy. Plus, Dr. St. Amand finds many more lumps than the number of known tender points. They literally are all over the body, not just on muscles, but also on tendons and ligaments. Such lumps are not described by any other fibromyalgia researcher, and are not a part of the description of fibromyalgia. It's perplexing that Dr. St. Amands finds these "lesions" (as he often refers to them), while no other fibromyalgia researcher has found any such abnormalities that are specific to fibromyalgia.