http://www.swankmsdiet.org/About%20The%20Diet

Does anyone here follow the Swank Diet? Or any dietary program which helps their symptoms?

If so, what program do you follow? If not a specific program what changes have you made to your diet that seem to help with your MS symptoms?

It's expensive to eat all organic. But it's also expensive to be on a DMD. What, if any, eating and/or vitamin program or regimin do you follow that seems to help?

I've been doing a cross between the Swank/American Heart Assoc. recommended diet for 4 years. Both are low fat but Swank doesn't allow chocolate and is more specific about limiting certain foods. I don't know if it works but my cholesterol is low, my heart is good, and I have energy so I'll stick with it.

I am very close to the "makers diet" which stresses eating clean. no boxed or canned anything. ALL our food is made from scratch, from organic or local sources and is a nice diet. It took some getting used to. My DD has celiac and we were gluten free here for a long time, this was long before it was popular, and you had to figure it all out on your won.

I am very happy with my diet and notice quickly when I have strayed from it. No high fructose corn syrup, no MSG, no preservatives... I do have an emergency pantry incase of God knows what that would make me worry, because its all canned, and preserved, but that is what is going to last in an emergency. Its hard to cook from fresh and scratch if we cant get out of the house.

I have noticed I feel better when on it, and I feel bad when I cheat. Splenda gives me an instant mind blowing headache. I just dont see how folks can eat that stuff. Ick!

Splenda gives me a headache, too. I can only imagine what it's doing to my insides to produce such pain. I've been using Stevia liquid and, although it takes a little getting used to, it's better than no sweetener at all. Too much and it's bitter.

NO CHOCOLATE!!!!

All artificial sweetners give me a headache and they can also add to your depression.

I have heard so many with MS say that ALL artificial sweetners give them a headache or migraine. When I was preggers in 1983 the MD told me then STAY AWAY! we have no idea what effect it can or will have on a developing fetus. That got me to thinking more closely about what I was shoving in my pie hole while I was making a baby. I rarely had a diet anything cause I was super skinny then but it made me switch gears and think before I ate.

Years later I know within 5 minutes of eating something with splenda or aspertame or equal. My brain feels like its boiling. I am dizzy, and nervous and really feel ill. I had a close friend tell me that she used to feel that way but it passed after sticking with her diet soda. She really wanted to lose weight. MS was hard enough skinny, let alone plump she said. I was shocked to hear that even tho something made her quite sick she kept eating it and ignored what her body was telling her.