I have just really screwed up . . . and I'm trying to remedy things, but in the meantime, I'm aching and hurting. This is the worst I've been since last May! At that time, I was on double Vioxx, but then I found the diet and ditched the medicine.
Some of you may have noticed in other posts that I've stated that I became a bit lax with the diet this spring. At first, I seemed to be getting away with it, but eventually stiffness and an ache here and an ache there began to grow. During the past few weeks, I've been trying to stick to the diet again (and I'm including healing foods and supplements like sour cherry juice, aloe, omega 3's), but the ball was already rolling, and this week, I'm in an all out flare. My entire spine, my hips, my shoulders, my big right toe, my wrists . . . and it's so frustrating because there is no good reason to let this happen to myself. I feel like I'm 74 instead of 44. And, I know that when I stick to the diet, I have NO arthritic symptoms. It's still amazing to me, but it's true!! I think that when I'm feeling so good, it's actually easy to forget how awful AS can feel. I even begin to wonder if people will think I've made it up that I have an illness at all! That's how well the diet works for me.
Soooo, I'm really thinking that I need to be doing an apple fast and maybe even some no food fasting. Only, I really do not enjoy either one and my discipline with food in general (even NSD foods) has been rather poor lately. I'm sure that part of my problem is related to overeating. That, too, is a cycle that I need and want to break.
If my fellow NSDers could send positive energy, prayers, thoughts, (whatever suits you),etc. for discipline and healing while I am fasting, I would be grateful. I need to do something that will break this momentum of pain and get me back on track in every way.
Thanks so much for all of you on this forum who are supportive. I like the main forum a lot, too, but I know that you NSDers are especially sympathetic to the diet issues.
Paula
