Hi Judy,

Thanks for the input. Sounds like we need to have a talk.

My pain disappeared when I eliminated all gluten and dairy from my diet. That is one of the main focuses of my Website- the relief of pain through dietary restriction. This same approach has yielded some phenomenal results in the management of MS as well. A big part of Celeste Pepe's book Reversing Multiple Sclerosis is about diet. What she eliminated is the interesting part.

Once we grasp the damage that the "big 4" (gluten, dairy, soy, and corn) are doing...along with the MSG, aspartame, mercury and other pollutants...we can see how people like Celeste can make such claims. I have a "client" who adopted my diet and ultimately made a full recovery from MS once she moved from Boston to the middle of nowhere in New Mexico, away from all of the air pollution. It is a know fact that air quality affects all of the neurodegenerative diseases.

And all of these dietary principles apply to our pets. Dogs and cats do even worse on the big 4 than people, not having had the time to adapt to them like we have. They suffer skin allergies, IBS, seizures, and lots of immune-mediated diseases and higher cancer rates than people, all of which illustrate their intolerance of their horrific commercial diets. But, there are some diets out there that are much better than others. My site explains.

I look at fibromyalgia as very sensitive pain centers in the brain. We are doing a lot wrong that is making this happen (diet, lifestyle, environment). Our pain threshold goes up and down like a barometer as we insult our body or as we become chronically ill, with our pain thresholds bottoming out this time of year as our serotonin levels are their lowest. It makes sense to me that people with other chronic illnesses would have low pain thresholds. Pain is a protective mechanism and some need more protection than others. And if your pain improves, you know you are on the right track. That is what happended to that case of MS I mentioned above. She knew that she was on the right track when her pain, IBS, and headaches were lessening.

I hope this helps in some way.

John