I have been eating a raw ,vegan lowfat for over 5 months, it has really helped me. I did the raw vegan diet wrong at first by eating a lot of nuts ,(cashew dip) and then I found that eating raw vegan really helps my joint pain and swelling.
Also, keep moving and incorporate a green juice everyday. Also too much natural sugar bothers me too.
If you want to get out of a nasty flare just juice celery and cucumber juice for the day and eat raw greens, your pain might drop like mine to a 3 out of 10.
I have followed a couple people on Youtube.com for recipes
"raw food romance"
and
"healing josephine"....she is in remission from RA after two years , she incorporated raw food for one year as well as intermitant fasting and eats two meals and stops eating around 4pm everyday.

Thank you - looking it up as I am not willing to be a carnivore again (despite some other diet options recommending lean meat and low cards). Pain in joints getting more problematic lately particularly in the knees.

Hi Simon Paul,
Yes, raw veggies or eating to heal and not for recreation helps.
I wanted to share another resource, a book called Goodbye Lupus and Goodbye Autoimmune Disease by Dr. Brooke Goldner. She has a six week disease reversal program, in which you follow the six stops below:
1. No animal products
2. No oils NONE
3. No proccessed food,
4. Drink at least 100 oz of water a day
5.Eat a green smoothie which consists of 75% green in your blender and 25 % frozen fruit and add water to the top of the greens then blend. Add 1/4 chia or flax seed to green smoothie and drink the whole blender full throughout the day
She calls it hyper nourish...... Eating to Heal not eating for fun

Oh and don't self sabotage...some folks eat a cookie at the end of
the day and she asks them why are they hurting themselves. They sometimes say they don't remember how it was to be well and people will ask a lot from them if they get well and so forth. So there is a lot about the mental part of being sick too included in the book.

herwebsite is goodbyelupus.com
she had severe lupus for over 12 yearsand has been sympton free for over 14 years now. She is a MD