I am considering a change from NSD to LSD and I’d like to know your opinion, maybe some of you have tried this before and can give me some ideas.
I have been diagnosed with spondyloarthropathy recently and I've been on NSD for two and a half months now. At the beginning everything was perfect: pain in bed disappeared, in the morning I was much better and my guts were much better too. But then improvement stopped and about five weeks ago I started to feel pain in my hand, which was swollen in the morning and sore all day. This was not new, but only occasionally had I had problems in my hands, I usually feel pain in my back, especially neck and shoulders. I tried one day fast and it almost disappeared for a couple of days, but when back on my NSD, pain came back again.
I know I could try a longer fast, but I have lost weight since I've been on NSD and I don't know if after fast pain would come again. So I was trying to find the culprit of my flare and making my diet more and more restrictive. One night I was so desperate and hungry and angry with the whole world that I got up and had a bowl of corn flakes and milk. Surprisingly, the following day my hand was better and the neck, more or less the same as the days before. What had happened?
Since I had to go to the doctor the following week I decided to forget about NSD for some days before the date, just in case it has some effect in the tests... and see the effect on my AS. I've been eating everything these four days (really starchy food) and I am clearly worse than when on NSD, with a deep pain in by back. I’ll have a blood test tomorrow and I want to go back to my healthy NSD but I’m still thinking of what happened with that bowl of cornflakes. Maybe when my klebs died of starvation another bug took over and my immune system reacted to this new bug too, but in a slightly different way (not with the classical pain in my back but in my fingers). Then, when the bowel Ph changed a bit this new bug had problems too. I don’t thing corn is the best food to find a balance in my gut, but may be some other food can do it instead to follow a more restrictive diet. I’ve heard some people can eat rice or some other things and it’s ok for them.
Please, tell my your ideas about this.
