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Hi Tom
I can say it really worked for me.
First time I tried it was long before I knew I had AS.
I tried losing weight in 2005, so I only ate meat and greens for about 2 or 3 months.
I could not understand why I had no pain at all at that time.
Since descovering that I have AS I've done it again, but can only stick it out for about 3 mounths at a time before
my head kicks out and I start craving starch so badly that I would devour anything in sight that contains starch,with the dreaded effects of course.
To make things worse, they built the devil of all devils (a Mcdonalds) near to where I live, and I cant resist a macfeast delux.
Well I hope you have a stronger will than me.
And good luck in your quest.
Regards
Jacques Snetler
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Hi, Tom:
Carol Sinclair's book is very encouraging, but the NSD is rather inconvenient and not that easy to stay with and test nearly everything that crosses your lips!
About ten years ago, I combined the NSD with antibiotics and had good results and although I have skeletal damage, I can say with some confidence that almost ALL of my inflammatory pains went away.
It took six months for the costochondritis to be totally eliminated, and I was still improving little-by-little after more than two years, but I had immediate and quite dramatic improvements within four days to two weeks of starting my own protocol. If you are interested in this approach, I can send to you what I have used--as a basic guide to work out your own regimen with a medical professional. Not wishing to stay on antibiotics indefinitely, I seldom require them anymore, but initially and for first several years they were extremely important. Ten years now with only a single episode--when I tried to use "natural" antibiotics.
Regards,
John
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Hi Tom, You may want to read some of these success stories to give you some inspiration: No/Low Starch Diet Success Stories It has done wonders for my hubby Jon. He has been very strict on it for the last 5 years. His pain went right down to level 1-2 out of 10 instead of 8-9 out of 10 and he is completely med free. It did take some time to get to that level... it's a gradual process of improvement for most people but if you go strict you should see significant improvement within the first few months. All the best Chelsea 
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Hi Tom
I have been on the diet for 6 months now ( I really did not want to do it)for the most part i stick with it, I had to give up dairy (that took me 2 months to face up to) as soon as I did my neck ad upper back eased up. I have the odd lapse, but I usually feel it within a few hours. I try to really plan out meals and snacks and make sure I have choices available so i am not so tempted. I do all the cooking at home and I still serve pasta some days for the rest of the family, I just do not eat it.
like anything some days are hard.
all the best
Kylie
Love is the emblem of eternity:it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Germaine De Stael
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Hang in there Tom. After 6 months of strict NSD I saw marginal improvement but no big breakthroughs. I went to LSD and I retained the small improvements I had and gained under NSD and have remained at that level for 3 years now.
I am not getting better but yet I am not getting any worse either so I guess that is a good thing.
There is a new TNF out now that may help along with the Diet
No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Hi Jacques,
I am a fellow South African. Welcome to the list! Ban yourself from the new McDonalds immediately...
I am struggling keeping to the NSD, but the days that I cheat on it, I have to take pain meds...
Take care
Ronel
"It's not good or bad. We can't see the big picture."
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Hi there,
I have been on the diet since March 2002... my symptoms for the most part have disappeared as long as I stick to the diet (which I do almost always).
If questions visit the diet forum.
Tim
AS may win some battles, but I will win the war.
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