Hi George
Yep, I am HLA-B27 positive, for my sins!
I know I said no more whining from me but I really am going from bad to worse at the moment, despite following the NSD diet strictly (I bought the Sinclair book and have stuck to the letter of it). I'm actually finding the extremely sudden deterioration in my mobility and the level of pain quite frightening. I still haven't tried giving up dairy as well, and not sure I have the will to just yet as I've big exams looming in three weeks. I might try after that, but since this doesn't seem to be working anyway...
I also find information really confusing. For example, Sinclair says that there is NEVER any problem with melon or green grapes (red ones, she says, sometimes have starch in their skins), so I've been eating a lot of melons and grapes, and lots of other starch-tested fruit. But then, over the last few days I have read posts saying that fruit should also be avoided in the early days of the diet. This in turn seems to contradict the whole notion of beginning the NSD with a diet of apples.
Having experienced no relief or lessening of symptoms at all when I was on the apple diet, I'm not sure food elimination is necessarily the right way to go for me. I really wish the diet had worked, even a little, as I am so wary about the various medications available and some of the histories on here were extremely encouraging, as was your own. But unfortunately, it just does not seem to be working for me.
Given that I am fairly 'stressed' at the mo with revision, and that the weather is absolutely terrible (cold and wet), to give the diet a fair hearing I'll probably stick with it for a week or so after my exams, but I'm really not particularly hopeful!
