Thread: Diet for Small Fiber Neuropathy
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Old 09-19-2014, 04:16 PM
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Has anyone tried getting off sugar or simple carbs and have found a reduction in pain?
I don't have SFN, nor am I diabetic, but yes, eliminating sugar, carbs, & white starches definitely reduces my PN symptoms & pain, as well as pain from other sources.

I've found no connection with caffeine either, but my limit is 2 cups coffe per day.

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Perhaps a lesson on what creates inflamation in the body is in order, too, but that's another subject, I guess.
Perhaps, because they're very much the same subject!

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Excess carbohydrates are the main fuel of chronic inflammation.
http://www.reducing-inflammation.com...ory_foods.html
sugar carbs inflammation

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