Hi Mig and Petesimac,
Oops! I think I needed more smileys after those first questions, cos I wasn't trying to be disrespectful. Just making flippant reasons why you couldn't *see* that NSD could possibly be of benefit... Sorry if I offended anybody.
If it were as clear cut as some people think it should be then it would be obvious to us all and we wouldn't need to have travelled the l-o-n-g and painful road to get here to KA! It never occurred to me that there was *any* relationship between what I ate and how much pain I felt.
Don't I wish that it were clear and simple. I have been luckier than some to have seen *definite* small but positive results within a month or so, and more as time went on. I think that at this point in time I can sneak *small* amounts of some starch foods (a mouthful here or there of potato, half a spoonful of steamed rice...) every now and then, but I am convinced (by doing my own not-quite-double blind trials) that WHEAT is a killer *for me*!
I would also suspect that if you have had AS for only a few years there may be little mechanical damage and it may be easier to see if strict NSD (and all its more stringent variants) brings about results, as you don't need to figure out what is INFLAMMATORY pain, and what is of MECHANICAL origin.
What I was really trying to get across is that YOU don't know if NSD will work for YOU if *YOU* have never tried it.
Sorry again if anybody has taken offence at what I wrote. The wonders of the internet - no tone of voice or cheery face happy to debate a question, NOT start an argument!
