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Originally Posted by jenng
I can offer you empathy; they *suspect* my neuropathy has an autoimmune cause. My bloodwork is mostly negative, however. So it's symptom management for now. I did find that amitriptyline, 50 mg at night helped me sleep by calming the worst of the twitching and nerve "zinging" pain. I am just now starting neurontin.
I'm reading Dr. Terry Wahl's book about diet & MS. From an autoimmune standpoint it's making sense. The changes are quite drastic for me. ;-) I love my gluten and sugar.
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Hi Jenng,
Yes, I have that book and do eat almost paleo anyway. I still eat corn and rice sometimes though. I'm getting ready to eliminate them for a while since I'm still a mess. Six months ago when the shooting pain started in my shoulders and hands, I went cold turkey completely gluten free.
I don't have digestive issues, but my minerals are low and with a very high ANA, I'm not messing around with a food that is known to cause nerve damage and malabsorption in some people. I'm a holistic health coach and I recommend to any clients with any physical or emotional ailments to do an elimination of gluten, dairy, eggs, sugar, and soy for a month and see how they feel. Then each week, add only one of the foods back at a time.
Since gluten is a scientifically proven cause of gut and nerve damage, it is the first to go. It sounds hard, but after the first 2 weeks of withdrawal, you would be fine. It is so much harder than it seems and what if it was the culprit?