Discover which foods and chemical additives cause arthritis inflammation, gout and fibromyalgia pain

This is a long post but so worth it for anyone suffering from fibromyalgia, narcolepsy, chronic fatigue syndrome, or other "mystery" "invisible" illnesses!!

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Thank you OP - I will be checking out your site! I just recently accidentally discovered the food-fibro connection on my own after a decade of HELL! It absolutely blows my mind to find out so much of my life has literally been destroyed and taken away by food! Not just food...but my stomach...and whatever is wrong in there that it can't process so many foods! I am also very sensitive/allergic to many different medications.

So amazing & sad all at once to find out I have been sick 3/4 of my life from FOOD! Many of them supposedly healthy foods at that!! Several years ago I discovered that OATMEAL caused me to have the most debilitating, miserable muscle, joint, and bone pain for days after I ate it! My entire body would get so stiff and painful (inflammation!) that I could barely get out of bed or even move at all! So I stopped eating oatmeal.

Eventually I suspected potatoes were also causing a problem so I began avoiding them too for about one year. A couple months ago I decided to try potatoes again. I ate them several days over a week and a half and I became sicker and sicker - general feeling of malaise - with terrible body aches and stiffness all over. My trial with potatoes confirmed that I definitely cannot eat them!

Last week I ate some wheat pasta. I was feeling good the day I ate it, but the following morning I could barely move when I woke up - I almost had to call for my son to help me get out of bed! When I finally was able to get out of the bed, I was in so much pain and super stiff all over! I could BARELY close my hands to make a fist my fingers were soooo stiff and painful. The joints of my fingers felt inflamed and when I pressed on them they felt very bruised!

I did nothing strenuous to cause this feeling and didn't feel anything like this the previous day. I KNOW it was the wheat pasta that did it because the pasta was the only thing I ate all day the day before. All I put on the pasta was a bit of Kerrygold Irish butter (real butter with vitamin K2 from early-spring grass fed cows - refer to Dr. Weston A. Price for info on this topic).

Now that I KNOW FOOD has been the main culprit in my decade+ long battle with SEVERE fibromyalgia, I am on a food trial/journey to see what I can and cannot eat. I only eat the foods I KNOW I am okay with, and I occasionally add a new food to see how I react to it. If I feel like crap the following day I know it was the new food that did it, and I add it to my "can't eat" list.

I ate a sweet potato a couple weeks ago and had a similar reaction to it as I do to regular potatoes. So I guess sweet potatoes are out too. :( I will probably try them again in the future since I love them and they are so good for you.

I know I can eat salad and pretty much any veggie you would put in a salad. A few weeks ago my son stopped at Arby's for some food and ordered me a salad. Without thinking to look at the DRESSING INGREDIENTS, I ate the salad without a worry - expecting to feel good the next day. Well I was wrong. I woke up with the most severe splitting headache and thought OMG what is going on??? I thought maybe I slept funky.

About an hour after I woke up it dawned on me that this felt like an MSG HEADACHE! I immediately pulled the dressing package out of the garbage and read the ingredients...you guessed it - MSG!!! Not to mention other MSG imitators like AUTOLYZED YEAST and a ton of other garbage additives! I have always know I'm sensitive to MSG. Years ago I only got a severe headache and a little sleepy from it, but now it's way way worse.

About a year ago I cheated and ate some Doritos with MSG in them. OMG I literally couldn't wake up the next day! I felt like I was severely sedated every tine I opened my eyes and I just couldn't keep them open how hard I tried. I slept for 16 hours straight after eating those Doritos!! NEVER AGAIN!!!!

Putting all this together now, I think back to the upper GI scope I had done several years ago where they found EOSINOPHILS in my stomach biopsies as well as stomach inflammation. You are NOT supposed to have eosinophils in your stomach! If they are there it means you have an allergy to something. Because I was taking 3-4 ibuprofen 800 mg tablets every day, the surgeon told me no more ibuprofen, naproxen, or aspirin for the rest of my life! He also advised me to extremely limit my intake of coffee and chocolate! o.O

I've had blood tests done and my IgA, IgE, and IgG levels were normal so of course I was told "no allergies". I even went to an allergist where they do the skin patch test on your back with 30-40 different substances and I reacted to NOTHING so they said I had no allergies! I just think well okay then, if I have no allergies, then why the hell do I have "prominent eosinophils" in my stomach???

After doing a bunch of research on this topic, I read something interesting: the "rare" disorder called Eosinophilic Gastritis is sometimes mistaken for an ulcer on barium study x-ray. That kind of blew my mind since I had a barium study done when I was 14 or 15 years old and I was diagnosed with an ulcer.

After reading the info on misdiagnosis, I can't help but wonder if what they saw as an ulcer was actually Eosinophilic Gastritis!!! Not only that, but I read that people with EG are especially sensitive/allergic to POTATOES and other foods from the nightshade family!! It's alllll beginning to make sense now!!

I also developed narcolepsy and was diagnosed with iron deficiency anemia when I was 15 years old. It took me ten years of literal HELL (and I do mean HELL!) to get a diagnosis for the narcolepsy!! And I have battled the anemia ever since. I have to take iron supplements every day or I will become anemic within a month.

Anyhow, thanks for sharing your site! I gave you some GREEN and added you to my buddy list!!

Wow OP - I just checked out the site you linked and the first page listed pretty much everything I said I can't eat because it causes me severe all-over body pain, stiffness, fatigue, sleepiness, and brain fog! I wish I would have known this info long ago!! We have to help get the word out on this because there are so many people suffering!! I feel I have been given a huge gift - and with that gift comes a huge responsibility and DUTY to inform and teach others so they can find relief from the life of HELL on earth that is known as fibromyalgia, CFS, and other "invisible illnesses"!!

10 Stars OP!

I drank a bottle of V8 juice the other day. It caused me terrible joint pain. I've been wondering about other sources. Peace.

The foods which trigger inflammation are different for everyone.

You left out milk and corn, two of the big ones!

You can get tested for which foods trigger immune response, www.foodallergytest.com.

EXCELLENT REPORT, Sleepy!

This is a minor observation--I am still processing this
thread for my own search for answers to these "pain"
reactions to foods. I'm right there with ya! It's amazing
it could be THIS SIMPLE!!

Anyways...I love to feed the birds in our area of NW
Montana. The city birds have a hard time with our extreme
weather patterns and I give them grains and supplements
during the winter months to help them get by. I have noticed
that UNLIKE a couple years back, the birds are REFUSING
to eat Cheerios. I'm thinking that this would be a good
supplement for them since they are OAT based grain,right?

Then I found out that the OWNERS of the Cheerios cereal
is none other than MONSANTO. They are doing GMO engineering
on this popular children's food now--and IF THE BIRDS
WON'T TOUCH THEM THERE IS SOMETHING VERY WRONG.

There was a thread posted last week on the HUGE NUMBER OF
FOOD COMPANIES MONSANTO HAS BOUGHT UP...This is food
terrorism that needs to be addressed and especially for
those of us who are ALREADY "FOOD SENSITIVES."

Educating ourselves is the only alternative since we
are NOT seeing any relief from the people who are supposed
to be protecting our foods--The Food and Drug Admin, the
EPA, etc. ALL BOUGHT OUT CRIMINALS ON THE "TAKE."

Good luck all in your journey to find the foods you
can now tolerate. Oh...one more thing...I see that milk
is mentioned in the list for inflammation triggers...
Did you know that SOME DAIRY COMPANIES are now adding
ASPARATAME to the milk? They are using it in place of
sugar because it is so cheap and still adds sweetener to
the milk taste. Think about THAT. They are NOT REQUIRED
TO LIST THIS ON THEIR INGREDIENTS LABEL, EITHER. Check
your local milk provider to be sure. Asparatame is a
KILLER. Look up "Sweet Poison" by Janet Starr Hull. It
could save you MORE PAIN. (I believe it was asparatame
--now called "sucralose"--that caused Michael J. fox
to develop Parkinson's. He got it for being the sponsor
celebrity for DIET PEPSI!)



Last Edited by TheOracle'sCookie on 03/31/2018 09:06 PM

but not hard enough to irritate your hoof

So , basically, everything!