Guest guest Posted December 15, 2003 Report Share Posted December 15, 2003 I also can atest to the diet change.....and it works to keep the pain away. I "usually" do not eat bleached sugars or bleached flour and i drink a gallon of water a day. You will find bleached sugars and bleached flour in almost all processed foods.....so i make every thing from scratch. Also green peppers make me hurt and aspartman sweetner and the pink stuff....so i stay away from the pink and blue stuff. I try to excercise daily......light weights one day, bike the next, walking the next and rotating them. I also take handfuls of supplements..........I am 48 .......diagnosed in my mid 30s with RA and I am on no meds...........and doing well :>) Just wanted to say that diet change does work to ease the pain......in my case....it keeps the pain away along with excercise and supplements and a gallon of water daily. God Bless Everyone Trish www.herbals-unlimited.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 15, 2003 Report Share Posted December 15, 2003 thanks for sharing this, Trish... wish more RA victims would at least try a change for 3 months, if for nothing else than to prove us wrong! <grin>!!!! love.. granny lee ----- Original Message ----- From: trish@... Rheumatoid Arthritis Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 8:26 AM Subject: diet and RA I also can atest to the diet change.....and it works to keep the pain away. I "usually" do not eat bleached sugars or bleached flour and i drink a gallon of water a day. You will find bleached sugars and bleached flour in almost all processed foods.....so i make every thing from scratch. Also green peppers make me hurt and aspartman sweetner and the pink stuff....so i stay away from the pink and blue stuff. I try to excercise daily......light weights one day, bike the next, walking the next and rotating them. I also take handfuls of supplements..........I am 48 .......diagnosed in my mid 30s with RA and I am on no meds...........and doing well :>) Just wanted to say that diet change does work to ease the pain......in my case....it keeps the pain away along with excercise and supplements and a gallon of water daily. God Bless Everyone Trish www.herbals-unlimited.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 15, 2003 Report Share Posted December 15, 2003 Ida, you are right... each individual is somewhat different. i was born in 1928 and before i even started school, i was in pain in my armes and legs but back then during the depression, po folks didn't go to Dr and i learned to live with the pain. Even when i grew up the dr's couldn't make up their minds what it was and just decided i 'had a nervous condition' ... one dr even prescribed valium and God knows i don't need that stuff.. i took it for two days and realized what it was doing to me and quit. my daughter is a nurse and it really upset her when i told her that i was told to take it as she had done a research on it for her thesis and knew what it would do. i got disgusted being treated like i was a hypochondriac and just wouldn't go to a dr but about once every 5 or 6 years but learned nothing accept that i may possibly be neurotic... in my later years they decided it was probably fibromaligia, and also have peripheral neurotomy (sp?) and i finally i got tired of GP's and referrred myself to a rhuemy and since a gp hadn't referred me, he was sceptical.. but after the tests etc.. realized that it was pretty certain RA. one can get used to a lot of pain.. as i am sure you are so aware of... in fact i can hurt myself and not even know it until a bruise or blood appears as i hurt so much all the time that i don't always notice an extra bit of pain <grin> aint i lucky??? <grin> but i am able to walk better since i changed my eating agenda and thankful for that. i got bit by a big...i mean BIG.. parrot one time at the zoo and it horrified my grandson and family thinking how painful it was as it did leave a very bad tear and whelt but i just stood there looking at it, rubbed it a bit and went on. but i rambe... love.. granny lee ----- Original Message ----- From: Abdul Hamid Roslida Rheumatoid Arthritis Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 9:41 AM Subject: Re: diet and RA I do agree that diet helps to reduce the pain tho i m not in any certain diet but i do avoid foods that cud trigger the pain ( thru my experience) but one thing that u have to know, as many think of Rheumatoid Arthritis as a ‘set pattern’ homogenous disease dealing out the same cards to all it attacks. This is far from the truth - Rheumatoid Arthritis has a broad spectrum of severity. It may be mild and benign and on the other hand it may be aggressive and rapidly crippling in the absence of disease modifying treatment. How it will behave in a given individual is not easy to predict at the onset, although the expression of the disease and some markers in the blood point to the kind of course one may expect. as i have suffered from RA since my juvenile years, the pain growing worst when i m getting older as now i m also suffered from osteoarthritis. so u see, we cant just compare my level of pain with other ppl 's level of pain who has only been dignosed months or a few years ago. Its not that i nvr want to quit on taking steroid. I tried everything that may substitute the drug, but it always come back to square one. i only started taking steroid after 3 yrs been dignosed of RA. at that time, it attacked my left hip joint, they tried everything and it only worked with steroid finally. now that i m on the first line of DMARDs, ie mtx, i think it does improve my Ra abit. even tho the deformities remained but i rarely have swollen joint anymore except for the knee ( its more to mechanical pain/osteoarthritis tho) Ida .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 28, 2005 Report Share Posted February 28, 2005 Suzie, I have found that, for me, diet does not seem to affect my RA. However, stress can cause a flare that will put me down for days until high doses of Prednisone gets it under control. Best wishes, Jay --- In Rheumatoid Arthritis , " suzie " <suzward05@y...> wrote: > > Thank you to all of you who talked about your diet and RA. I will > start keeping a diary of what I eat and try to work out any > relationship between my diet and my flares. I tend to eat very well > anyway - lost of fresh fruit and vegetables, very little wheat, > little bread, little red meat, lots of nuts, no fried food or > takeaway or frozen foods and very little processed foods. > > I think stress makes me flare more than anything actually. But, I do > agree that food has a big impact. In fact my food intake has a huge > impact on my mood as well. > > I must go sleep now, but it is so nice to read all your messages. > Thank you - I am so glad I joined. > > Suzie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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