Dear DMX,
Sorry to hear about your AS and even more sorry to hear about your suicide attempt. I will pray and offer up something for you(catholic way of praying)
Dragonslayer is right, you can get better with diet.My labs and symptoms have improved Drastically over the past two years due to change in diet. It improved my sternum pain and si joint pain. It even improved my swollen knees, that were swollen for over to year. It made a frozen joint unfrozen after two years of not being able to straighten it.Starchy food really causes me and other people pain, it is the root cause of your pain, no joke. Just eat salad with chicken for the next two weeks and you will notice your pain going down, it will encourage you to keeep with the diet.
I tried Humira too, but I had tuberculosis as a child so I stopped taking it and I felt worse on it anyway. I was glad I felt worse, it was easy to drop it that way.
Make a list of five recipes that do not have starchy foods and keep that stuff on hand , throw out breads, pastas, cakes and cookies. If you need sweets try a soda or hard candy or dark chocolate, it does not hurt me as bad as that starchy stuff.
Our body will heal itself if we feed it good fruits and vegetables.Just like if you scrape your arm, you do nothing but stay out of the way and let your arm heal. If we stop poisoning ourselves with processed junk food, we can get better, we can heal from the inside out.
My sed rate(inflammation marker) went from 65 to 19 in two years after I changed my diet, it improved my anemia too, I am not anemic anymore.
Take care, I hope you try the NSD.
Diet change has improved my RA. I feel best eating raw veggies and some fruits and avoiding grains, sugars, nightshades, beans and dairy. Sed rate dropped from 65 to 19, but it took over a year.
www.fatsickandnearlydead.com excess fat/oils = pain for me
recipes for raw food on Youtube "raw food romance"
and "healing josephine" Josephine is in remission from RA after two years by change diet/exercise
