Drug fiasco

November 16, 2015 Honourable Minister of Health Jane Philpot Dear Jane Philpot First of all congratulations on your new position, the health of the nation is a great responsibility and as much as I love the idea of having Ministers that actually know about their particular portfolio I also recognize that yours will be particularly trying as a doctor. You shall have to wear many other hat’s such as all the other disciplines that make up the Canadian heath care system, not only that .other cross you shall have to bear is the one that generates my grievance. You shall have to find a balance between the interests of big Pharma and the generic and un-patentable drug industries. I know as a doctor that the pressure to cow-to to big Pharmaceuticals will be great but to serve the Canadian people you shall have to stand up for the Guaifenesen’s and other old, un-patentable, affective, cheaper drugs, less dangerous drugs that people like me have found by trial and error to control their various conditions over the years, that being said here is my problem, Guaifenesin a non-patentable medication from the 17th century, it is an expectorant and is in dozens of medical products such as cough medicines it dissolves mucus and phlegm and also Phosphoric acid and Uric acid and is also a muscle relaxer. It is now for some inexplicable reason unavailable in Canada, probably because I suspect it is un-patentable medication. The Conservatives did this in the last month or so during the election. I tried to buy some Sept 17 2015 and the order actually went through to a Canadian company Fludan Fine Chemicals and I was waiting for the shipment and then I phoned and was told that they are not allowed to ship to Canada, I tried Amazon and was told the same thing. It has been suggested it might be about safety of the product, bad call, this product has not only been around for 4 centuries but in the book that tells you about all the drugs and their side affects, it says “absolutely no known side affects” I think in 4 hundred years they would have noticed any bad side affects that is sure something you can’t say about most other drugs. I guess the next criticism would be it doesn’t work. Well it is in dozens of other medicines and I have documented what it has done for me over the last 17 years. I have Fibromyalgia and have successfully used this drug and also tried to come off Guaifenesin at one point because it went up in cost 500 percent and I had to go back on it because all my symptoms started to come back in a big way. Once I got rid of the symptoms again I went on a maintenance dose and have been on it for years, My Doctor has documented all my success I have had with this medication and I have written a book about it. I want to find out what legislation or sweetheart deal was made to make this happen, and who the individuals who profited from this. Obviously a deal has been made with the big pharmaceutical companies to get rid of these low cost un-patentable drugs to force people to buy their expensive ineffective drugs with a dozen serious side affects. This is a perfect example of what free trade looks like to the Conservatives. I can’t even get a crucial drug that I quite simply can not go without, I have been without it now for 7 weeks and already I have aching in my fingers, forearms, shoulders, feet, calves, knees and lower back and the head aches are starting, it will also affect my eyes and hearing. In other words the Phosphoric acid is starting to build up in my tissue again, if left long enough I will literally turn into what I once was again, stone, or to be more correct Phosphoric acid. When I started on Guaifenesin once I got to the proper loading which for me was 2400 Mg a day I lost 23 lb. of Phosphoric acid in 6 weeks. It burned every time I went to the bathroom, this 23 lb was mostly surface deposits, it took a lot longer to get the acid right in the muscle tissue which I broke up with IMS and flushed with Guaifenesin and lot’s of water. This is not just my problem, as I believe many un-patentable drugs have suffered the same fate. I talked to a Naturopath and apparently a lot of the drugs they use are no longer available because no one will pay the millions of dollars to do the testing on these un-patentable mostly older medications. At 55 years old, I went to a Rheumatologist and he told me to just keep doing what you are doing because considering how you were in 1991 you should be in a wheelchair by now, and now one of the most important reasons for my success is no longer available to me. This is so wrong, and must be rectified as soon as possible, as I quite simply shall not go back to the time I should have been in a wheelchair before I found all the medications to let me control my condition. I have literally fought my whole life to find the proper medications and other things that allow me to live an almost normal life. I don’t believe at this time there is a cure for Fibromyalgia. but it definitely can be controlled as I am 73 years old and in the last 3 years I have jumped out of an aeroplane, done paintball, kayaked, swim, well you get the idea, not bad for someone who was supposed to be in a wheelchair in 1996. If this sounds like a cry for help it probably is because it is and I can honestly say a matter of life and death, I quite simply can not go back to the way I was before I found Guaifenesin. Sincerely yours, Wayne R. Clark