How can I go about changing my diet?

Question

I have been dealing with pain and possible autoimmune symptoms. I’m allergic to Advil and Motrin so I can’t take anti inflammatories. I figured the best thing to do would be to change my diet so I decided to take gluten and dairy out. Plus I want to start drinking more water. I figured that gluten would be easiest to start with as I already will eat some gluten free foods whereas I eat dairy on a regular basis. How can I go about gradually changing things in order to help with the pain and other symptoms?

Answer

I have an autoimmune disease, but there are so many& each disease is different. I’m gluten, dairy & soy free among other things & I literally just stopped eating them one day& did a fridge clean out. Best thing to do is to see your dr, & tell them what you’re feeling & go from there & they can actually help you with a diagnosis & tell you about what diet changes you should make. As far as the Advil thing, I only take Tylenol & only when it is absolutely necessary.

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An elimination diet is very helpful for identifying trigger foods that increase pain symptoms. I used the one from a book called “The Fibromyalgia Solution”. Found that Garlic and MSG were headache triggers for me. I grew up with garlic in everything. And when my parents were low on money (when i was age 11-17) we ate a lot of ramen, MSG in the seasoning. Once I found out triggers and could avoid them my pain reduced and quality of life improved drastically.
TBH 3 weeks of eliminating the whole list of trigger foods is when my headaches went from a daily pain scale of 3 escalating to an 8 each afternoon (staying in bed) to a steady level of 3 the entire day! It was challenging to change and avoid foods but it was 100% worth it.

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There are many autoimmune centered diets online. Removing processed foods can make a big difference. An allergist told me I shouldn’t eat anything that’s not completely fresh including hamburger that we ground from a deer that we shot and butchered. That’s a bit extreme for me personally, but I do try to have less processed foods since it seems to help.

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You should talk with your dr about this.

How can I go about changing my diet?

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