Thanks, Stillhoping. No, I haven't tested for it but have suspected it in the past. I'll bring it up with my GP when I see her in the new few weeks. I consume lots of salt, good sea salt, and don't feel any worse, so I don't know. My GP did do a parasites and bacteria stool test a few months back, but that tests only for the most common things, and I don't believe HP can be tested that way, if I recall correctly.

I have used the pro-biotic oral sprays. They have helped, i can't stand yogurt (if not sweetened) so its a better bet for me.

My favourite yogurt is plain, sour yogurt, so just naturally fermented so to speak, and so very high in probiotics. But I don't eat dairy anymore. Now I get my probiotics from sauerkraut, and will soon ferment all sorts of my own veggies. But I've also been meaning to check out Custom Probiotics as I posted here: http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...02#post1190902

I started to keep on a healthy nutrition with very low salt intake more than 10 years ago. I tried a few times (before this nutrition, and again recently) a treatment to POTS with high salt intake (2000-3000mg sodium for day).
The salt increased my dryness and caused many gut symptoms, it improved greatly when I stopped the treatment and reduced the salt.

Interesting. I wonder if certain of my symptoms would disappear from reduced salt. What kind of salt were you consuming? I've so far seen no connection between my salt intake and symptoms, but plenty with glucose.

As far as I remember from your posts, my nutrition is very different then yours. I am vegan, I eat veggetables, fruits, unprocessed carbs, legumes, nuts and grains. Almost no processed, fried or smoked food, I hardly add salt to my food (I guess my daily sodium consumption is about 500mg), or eat spicy food. I get most of my fluids from the veggie and fruits so I don't drink much.
When I started this diet all the Sjogren's like symptoms improved/disappeared and I thought for a while that I was cured.
I stopped using eye drops (I had punctal plugs and used to put eye drops and gel many times each day), the dry skin, nose and skin greatly improved, the joint and muscle ache, and the low grade fever disappeared, the POTS improved and I had more energy.

But I still developed Lymphoma, SFN, and debilitating fatigue despite of many years with that nutrition...
Who knows whether the nutrition helped or not with these.... I don't have a control group...

Right, that's true. My diet is paleo ketogenic. I consume plenty of quality sea salt, almost entirely pink Himalayan salt. I wonder how you'd do on such a diet. I wonder how I'd do with less salt. My face symptoms have gotten worse, but that could also be due to the cold weather, which especially affects my eyes and the watering.

I'm sorry you continue to develop such health problems, and as I've said before I hope you find relief soon. Keep hoping! I don't know what the future holds for me, but I do hope I keep improving. I don't know what to make of some of my symptoms that seem to be getting worse. My energy levels are much better though since I've been supplementing with B12 and B complex.

Hello David,

I am experiencing a similar situation and I found this thread, after these three years how is your current condition, hope fully better,

Want to share with you my experiences hopefully you see this message

Hi there,

I'm sorry to hear you're in a similar situation to me and that you had to seek our this thread. I haven't even looked at it in years. But since you asked about it, I'll try my best to look it over and write an update about my disease and to say where I've at now with the medical care I'm getting, which is really no medical care. Here is something in the meantime that I wrote on here recently, though it only touches on my disease per se: The Amazing Benefits of CBD: The Non-Psychotropic Cannabinoid and Neuropathy.

Feel free to share on here or to message me. I'm not on here as much these days, but I try to check now and then.

Wishing you a good day,
Dave