In Sept. of 1999, I awoke one morning with a major headache, body aches, and stiffness. I thought I had the flu. It lasted 3 days. It came back a month later and lasted 3 days. In Nov. it came back and never went away. I had 3 children to care for and could barely get off the couch. the doctors didn't know what was wrong. One doctor treated me for Lymes. I took strong antibiotics for a year and was not better. Then I went to a nutritionist. She diagnosed me with fibromyalgia and started me on a detox. I was a poor eater and ate lots of chocolate and sugar. Chocolate is a multipier of virus. Fibromyalgia is a virus. I made fresh vegetable juice every day using spinach, carrots, cucumber, celery. I took green barley, red Marine algea, and spirulina. I ate no white flour products, no sugar. I ate lots of fruits and vegetables (raw). spelt noodles and bread-in moderation, fish and chicken. In one month, I felt like a new person. today 9 years later, I still feel good. I cheat more with chocolate and sugar but when I feel the aches come back, I just get a little stricter with my diet again. Our body is like a machine, what we put in it affects how that machine will work. Every organ and system in our body depends on proper nutrients to help it function. Sugar, white flour, fat, junk food with no nutrients just tax our bodies. Almost every illness is linked to nutrition or lack thereof.
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I am glad this worked for you. But here is my problem with it (along with all the other natural cures): If diet is at the core of fibro, then why don't all the people who eat garbage all day, get no exercise, etc., why are all these people OK? I know tons of people who eat junk and even smoke and they don't have fibro or arthritis!
It's possible that you would have gotten better anyway, maybe you didn't really have fibro. You could have had a food allergy or something else. I'm not saying you're wrong, but I don't think that the nutrition thing is necessarily a cure for everyone. Personally, my diet is quite healthy and I don't overeat and I do some exercise, but I still have fibro and I'm still quite overweight. It's frustrating.
I can believe what is being said here. It wasn't a complete cure-all for me, but nutrition is a vital key in fighting fibro. I can attest to the sentiments about others eating junk food and smoking cigarettes, even from high school. When I was 15, I was a better athlete than the others. When I hit 17 with fibro and arthritis settling in, I tried even harder with an even more rigid nutrition and exercise regimen, but the junk food and smoker crowd eventually overcame and surpassed me, no matter how good I ate or how well I exercised.
By the time I was 19, it was hard to even get up a fight of stairs for college, and I had been an athlete just 4 years previous. I quit using any form of caffeine during that time, and I instantly felt the benefits. I could go up a flight of stairs again. Quitting caffeine was definitely one of the best things I've ever done, the substance is just chock-full of fibro triggers.
Nowadays, I make sure to eat as fresh as I can and I drink nothing but milk or water, but it seems as if even proper nutrition isn't solving all the problems for me. That is just the nature of fibro, though. Some of us may have light symptoms that can just make one adjustment and eliminate most of their symptoms, but on the other scale you have some of us who struggle to maintain any sort of function. So, for me, I still haven't been able to retain function even with the right diet, but I can't imagine how worse I'd be if I wasn't taking vitamins and eating right.
I personally think it is questionable that your diagnosis of fibromyalgia was correct. A nutritionist is hardly qualified to make that diagnosis. Its obvious you had/have some type of problem and I'm glad you were able to get help and consider yourself cured.
I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia approximately 15 years ago and only wish curing fibro was as simple as your nutrionist thinks. Your symptoms are present in many other medical diseases/syndromes other than fibro. To be diagnosed with fibro you must have exhibited pain in all four quadrants of your body for at least three months and must have 13 tender points out of a possible 18 sensitive to pressure.
Again I am happy for you that you found something that worked for you, but I do think you had/have something other than fibromyalgia.
I personally think it is questionable that your diagnosis of fibromyalgia was correct. A nutritionist is hardly qualified to make that diagnosis. Its obvious you had/have some type of problem and I'm glad you were able to get help and consider yourself cured.
I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia approximately 15 years ago and only wish curing fibro was as simple as your nutrionist thinks. Your symptoms are present in many other medical diseases/syndromes other than fibro. To be diagnosed with fibro you must have exhibited pain in all four quadrants of your body for at least three months and must have 13 tender points out of a possible 18 sensitive to pressure.
Again I am happy for you that you found something that worked for you, but I do think you had/have something other than fibromyalgia.
I agree...........that I disagree with your diagnosis. The Epstein bar virus can come and then go forever like that. My neighbor was sick as a dog with it and now she's healthy as a hog and never changed her diet. It just was not long term true FIBRO. It was more like mono. You could have had a million different bugs/etc.
Diet is very important, but I have tried juicing.......the WHITE diet etc. and I was never CURED.
I have, in fact, progressed and do not believe that TRUE FIBRO is curable at this point.
I'm so blessed to hear you are no longer sick, but when it sounds too good to be true..........'it probably is'. BUT........ So glad you are WELL.
I did alot of research on my symptoms and fibromyalgia was the most likely cause. I did have at least 13 of the pressure points, pain in my muscles in my arms, legs, back, neck, and head. I had stiffness in my neck, and back and felt like I was 90 years old when I got out of bed in the morning. If I didn't have fibromyalgia, then what other disease or virus has these same symptoms? Also, someone mentioned that if diet was the answer then everyone would be cured. Sticking to a strict diet is not at all easy especailly in our society. I know few people who are willing to change their diet even when they have serious health problems. It isn;t easy giving up sugar, white flour, and dairy. It wasn't just changing my diet but taking several good supplements like green barley, red marine algea which is an anti viral, B complex, a good multi. Alot of people say they eat healthy but my diet was extreme. I did not mention in my first message that I also was diagnosed by my family doctor with kidney disease. I was told after much testing (blood and 24 hr urine tests) that I had only 40 percent function in my kidneys. The nephrologist wanted to do a biopsy of my kidneys and was talking about steroids. This was the main reason I went to the nutritionist. The DR. told me that nutrition would never help my kidneys. It took only a month for my fibromyalgia symptoms to disappear but it took a year and a half before my kidneys were in normal function range of about 80 percent. The nutritionist said my body was toxic due to the antibiotics that I took for a year and the tylenol for my pain. she believed that I needed to cleanse and detox my kidneys, liver, and entire body. It wasn't easy and it took a year and a half, but it was worth it to save my kidneys. If I listened to the Dr and the skeptics, I might be on dialysis today and living in constant pain. So, I say to anyone who says nutrition didn;t work for them, what kind of nutrition program were you on? Everybody has a different idea of what is healthy eating. You may think you are eating healthy but when you have an illness you need to also add alot of extra nutrients to boost the immune system.
I know few people who are willing to give up their pizza, chips, coffee, and doughnuts for any reason. I see people with all types of illness : still eating the standard American diet of sugar, fat, white flour, and junk food with empty calories.
I'm glad you are well but I can tell you if your nutritionist diagnosed and cured you then you did not have fibromyalgia. Whatever you had was cured by a nutritional change but it wasn't Fibro. And Fibro is not caused by a virus...if it was then eating certain foods would of not cured it. A Virus comes and goes Fibro is for life and so far no cure Science hasn't discovered what causes it and I seriously doubt your nutritionist has any science behind her diagnosis and her claim that it is a virus...in fact she can loose her license for even claiming such a thing. Don't know what you had but it wasn't Fibromyalgia.
Eating a better diet - as you suggest - has helped me. But, it did not cure me of FMS. I received great medical care that helped the FMS, in combination with a better eating plan.
I'm so glad you found something that worked for you. Many people never find the right combination, and it is very frustrating.
If it's diets that can cure us I do believe the Medical Communities would have been all over it and we would have been cured now.
I don't what you had but it wasn't Fibro.
I'm glad that changing your diet cured you from what ailed you but using the claim that diet will cure fibromites isn't as simple as you're making it to be.
I am normally the really positive one on threads like these. I love to keep an open mind about potential cures and things that can help us all. With that said, Fibromyalgia is not a virus. It is chronic and, thus, is with us for the duration of our lives. I too work very hard to eat well and I am one of the few that exercises regularly. I too find that when I go off my diet or exercise regime, my pain increases. However, that does not mean I don't have my pain at other times when I'm perfect with my diet. What you have said about diet is SO important!!!! It is not a cure though. I have actually lost 95 pounds on my regime and while I feel remarkably better, I still have fibro and it still bothers me. It would just be so much worse if I were not eating well and exercising.
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