Dennis: Chronic back pain, Disc degeneration, Spinal stenosis, Kidney stones & Gout
March 10, 2020
My Grafex Super C60 (Fullerene) Story
Background
As a person that generally disregards and is typically suspicious of claims made by medical supplement companies, I was very reluctant to pay much attention to this stuff. After hearing repeatedly about it from a friend, I was intrigued and looked at all of the articles on the internet about Fullerenes, and specifically C60.
There is quite a bit to read on the subject. Much of it smacks of snake oil and is off putting to me. Many of the statements I found were simple testimonials, which I also regard with caution. But other information was from fairly reputable sources including a few medical research sites.
I saw many other references to healing properties, as you will too during a web search. The more you look, the more you find. However notable the claims I saw on the web, the only thing I really trusted were the claims by my friend. He was a believer and I kept finding testimonials from people that said chronic pains had become less noticeable and that they no longer needed to take as much prescription medicine after taking [Grafex Super] C60 daily. Then I found some NIH (National Institute of Health) references that made positive statements about Fullerenes in general. The combination of all of the positive information from what looked like good sources outweighed the few sources of negative information that are on the web from a couple much less impressive sources.
“My Grafex C60 Experience So Far:”
The brother Marine that told me about Fullerene in the first place sent me two months of the Grafex C60 5 mg pills earlier this year, so I was able to start a trial in June 2019. I have chronic pain due to previously broken vertebrae, disk degeneration in my neck and spinal stenosis, and have been battling kidney pain, kidney stones and gout for a long time. For the past year, I have been on a strict daily use of Allopurinol and Motrin. Motrin is usually enough to control the back pain unless I aggravate my spine and have to hit the heavy stuff. The Allopurinol, recommended by another trusted friend, lessened the intensity and duration of my bi-monthly gout attacks, but it completely stopped the quarterly kidney stone episodes. Kidney stones were life changing due to very intense pain and my inability to predict the episodes made traveling a gamble. Also, if I missed a dose of Allopurinol, I could feel the gout coming back in a matter of hours.
I picked June because I was planning to write a paper during the month and knew I would be spending a lot of time at home. In case the Grafex C60 didn’t work, I wanted to be close to a bed and a stocked medicine cabinet.
However necessary the Allopurinol was, in order to make the experiment with Grafex C60 valid, I stopped taking the daily doses a couple days after the first Super C60 pill. This was a big leap of faith which made me very worried about what might happen. Because the half-life of Allopurinol is so short, I was expecting to be crippled at any moment with a rapid return of kidney stones and gout. In the weeks after stopping the daily doses of Allopurinol, I kept some major pain killers in my pocket just in case. Fortunately, nothing happened. I was able to reduce my intake of Motrin from an average of 1000 mg per day to about 200 mg per day while taking the 5 mg Grafex C60 and no Allopurinol at all. After 45 days of nervous apprehension, I remained without gout symptoms, free from kidney stones or kidney pain, and was able to drop the Motrin down to 100 mg per day. After 60 days of experimenting, I was impressed with the results.
When the 5 mg supply was running short, I tried taking one Grafex pill every other day, instead of daily. This seemed to work for me so when I placed my next order, I tried the 2.5 mg pills for the refill. So far, the lower dose works very well. From this experiment, I have concluded the following.
While the experiment is only in its sixth month, I can declare it a success. If the Grafex was not working, I would have definitely experienced a return of gout and kidney pain, and possibly kidney stones.
My back pain is significantly less now that it was before starting the Grafex C60 and I have been able to cut my daily Motrin use down to 10% of what is was before I started.
I have been generally healthier, but still not sure that it has anything to do with the Grafex C60.
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