More questions - Ankylosing Spondylitis

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Hi scott, ive got some more questions below.

Before discovering the problem with mercury, I cut out junk food and

it nearly eliminated the pain of spondylitis. After a year of on and

off of this diet I took out fillings and began chelating. This

caused a massive increase in all of my symptoms. At the same time, I

began a strict candida diet (virtually no carbs). I think the

exposure, chelators and starting candida diet at the same time was

hard on me.

---- I can imagine it must have been tough doing all at once.

Over the past year I have been weaning off minor cheats on the diet

and cheating less frequently. It seems that the candida finds a new

way to survive over time.

---- This seems to be the case here as well. Symptoms improve but come

back again. is there a good info site or forum about AS you can

recommend? By cheating do you mean sugar or breads/pastas as well? My

diet is already low carb but not all the time. Do you really notice

the effect of just one cheat? So these bugs react highly to blood sugar.

I was pain free while eating fruit, then I

had to cut that out. A minor cheat would cause more and more pain

and fatigue. Currently, I am having to give up coffee as it's

causing symptoms after going 2 months without a cheat or any simple

sugars. Sometimes I am disturbed by this trend, but the " Candida

people " talk frequently of this happening. Enough time on the strict

diet and you can be cured of it.

----- Did your mercury symptoms get worse or the AS?

I believe the difference for us is

that by ridding ourselves of the mercury we can KEEP it gone.

---- That was my original thinking but after your above story i really

hope this will be the outcome...

Also over time the location of joint pain has changed. It started 5

years ago as slowly progressing pain in sacroiliac joints. After

becoming excruciating, it diminished and began in lower back at

night, forcing me to get up at about 4 am to walk it out. Next I got

a sudden pain in one shoulder where I was diagnosed with rotator cuff

tear. I couldn't move my shoulder at all from the pain. After 4

days of that it disappeared almost as suddenly, then showed up in the

other shoulder. Now it made sense- just another joint affected. Now

with coffee it affects the balls of my feet at the metatarsotarsal

joints. If I were to fall off the wagon, I would suddenly have hip

and back pain again as well.

---- I can only trace it back about two years. Im in alot better shape

than you used to be. I'm very lucky i found out about all this so

soon. I do remember having pain in the balls of my feet as a child. I

just read that it can start that way and progresses to the spine..

Have you also always

ALA hasn't done much to me, but I have gone real slow after starting

the DMSA too soon and getting so screwed up. I do know that I can't

do ALA alone and that I can't go up to 50 mg yet. I haven't noticed

a correlation to AS with dose changes- just anxiety, fogginess, word

retrieval, etc.

--- Im on 25mg DMSA this 6th-round and all is going well. Two or three

more rounds and i will try ALA as well.

My steady improvement in all aspects I do atribute to following the

protocol using DMSA and ALA.

---- Great. So no reoccurrences so far. And how long has this been?

Feel free with other questions or comparing stories.

I'll think of some more later

Thanks, Collin