The MS Recovery Diet by Ann Sawyer and Judi Bachrach

Hello Everyone

I have been following the diet for about 28 months now. At first I did not experience any recovery, however, since going strict and eating only lean protein and non starchy vegetables about 8 months ago, I have experienced a very dramatic improvement. My problem - my diet is so limited I cannot rotate as much as I would like. I eat a food once in four days. My vegetables are mostly of the cabbage family so although they are getting rotated, I am still repeating the family. Eg brussel sprouts day 1, cabbage day 2, spring greens day 3 etc. To my horror I am starting to react to these cruciferous vegetables, my symptoms are returning and I am terrified. I have tried to introduce "old" triggers but I am still reacting to them, eg egggplant, zucchini, broccoli, brown rice etc. If I eliminate the cruciferous family and starchy vegetables I am literally left with parsley, salad leaves and pak choi and my rotation problem is compounded.

I would love to hear from anyone who has brought themselves back from a situation where they just had to eat trigger foods to survive. How did you do it? Did you take supplements? Did you follow a detox protocol? Did you just choose to eat the things to which you reacted least?

I would be very grateful for any help anyone can give me as I am currently in a state of panic which is definitely not helping my symptoms!

Who has experienced positive outcomes from the ELISA test? I've had the ALCAT but that's a food "sensitivity" test not a food "allergy" test. It was expensive and NOT covered by insurance. But I went that route because I was able to test without having to eat the foods in question.

But that's not the case with the ELISA test, correct? How far in advance of the test do you have to eat the offenders? I'm kind of scared to eat foods I've been off of for almost 18 months! But if I need to do it to get the results, I will.

Please help!

Thanks.

Susie

Dear all: I have been doing the diet since 9/09 and I am so much worse than ever. I have very bad fatigue and am very weak all the time. I have had blood tests, all normal, skin test (no overt allergies), am about to get ELISA for more precise. Honestly, I am at a loss. I recently had to stop going to the pool to do laps since my walking with a rollator is both arduous and draining, and I have fallen a lot (balance is bad). I recently rented a scooter to get around and I am paying for home cleaning and cooking care (I live alone). Is this all just to point that I need to accept being worse? I have been diagnosed for 10 years and until early 2009 I was just using a cane to get around. I need some input. Please comment. I am happy to give details I may have missed, but this is the lowest point I have ever felt. I believe in alternative therapies and try to de-stress, meditate, go to acu, keep the diet.
Kathleen

What's the effect on corn, corn meal, corn chips, etc. on MS, myelin, etc. Steve

Hello, I've been following the diet for about 4 months now and really feel like I'm feeling good results from it. Today was my daughters last day of kindergarten and they had a pizza party. I was having such a good time and was starving, so I had a couple of pieces. Now I'm feeling so guilty. I'm even feeling tingling in my feet, which could just be a side effect of my worrying. Sometimes I miss good food so much! but I'm very desciplined and just focus on something else.

My question is: Have I messed up all the progress and recovery I have acheived up to this point? Am I back at square one? Did I ruin things? I feel like such a failure right now.
Any kind of detox that I can try to flush my system a bit?

Any suggestions would be helpful.
Thank You