Kickas.org Forums Treatments, Drugs and Alternatives NSD and diet-related; what happens when you quit NSD?

After being on NSD for 2 months and being nearly pain-free, I cheated a little by eating a 1/2 cup of rice 2 days in a row. Predictably, I got some significant SIJ pain.

Thing is, before NSD, I ate way more starches in a day than just a 1/2 cup of rice and sometimes could go weeks without symptoms. Has my body suddenly become far more sensitive to starch as a result of being on this diet?

Obviously the goal is to stay on NSD long-term, but I'm curious what typically happens when people get off NSD and start consuming starch again. Are there withdrawal symptoms or other side-effects? Are you thereafter more sensitive to even small quantities of starch?

Didier

Hello there,

Good question. I would assume the bacteria balance in GI has changed. You may be more sensitive at first, but like when you changed diet prior, I assume bacterial balance would change once again and probably be back where you started from.

Just my opinion...

Tim

The theory you propose makes sense. Surely someone on these forums has quit NSD at one point and seen the effects first hand?

I have been on this board for years (since 2008). My impression is that most people who quit NSD were not following it closely enough to be night and day without it. Most people who are having a great benefit, experiment early on, have a big reaction and then "learn their lesson", go strict and don't look back. Other people who have been on the diet *a long time* feel that their stomachs start to heal and then can tolerate some starches occasionally in small doses. Some people begin supplementing with antibiotics or low dose naltrexone and begin to be able to tolerate a little more starch.

I was on it for 4 months and got my pain down to 0. As time went on, however, I became much more starch and dairy sensitive. If I slipped up, I noticed right away. Strangely enough, when I quit altogether I didn't have the same reaction, my pain just gradually returned. Now I might still react to food but am no more reactive than I was prior to diet.

So if you think the disease will explode when one quits to make up for the time it was suppressed with NSD, I don't think that is the case.

The AS pain can suck but I didn't feel the restricted energy and unhappiness I got from NSD was worth it, at least not yet.