Anyone read this book by Barbara Allan?

Conquering Arthritis: What Doctor's Don't Tell You Because They Don't Know.

I have been watching some of her Youtube videos and she seems to take a pretty measured approach to finding diet triggers for RA and other AI diseases. She was diagnosed with reactive arthritis in 94 and was able to find relief with dietary changes over a 11 year long period of time.

She says that she is now able to eat many of the foods she was initially reacting to after healing her gut. I just started this book. I am at a point with my illness that several of the medications are not working well due to bad side effects and recurring infections. I am still taking methotrexate as well as pain meds but I would love to be able to figure out if some of the foods I am eating are helping to contribute to my illness. The problem I have had in the past was that except for corn I never had any immediate type of reaction to the foods I reintroduced so it was very hard to nail down what it is that could be causing me to have a reaction.

I am still very curious about this as a viable treatment because when I have fasted in the past usually about day 3 I see a significant decrease in inflammation. The pain is still there but the swelling goes down considerably.

At any rate I was wondering if anyone else has read this book and tried it for themselves?

Well her view seems to be that there are some foods that tend to be more popular for people with food sensitivity but that is not necessarily the case for all people.

I have done this twice but both times I dont think it was thorough enough. An elimination diet seems to be the only real way to identify the foods that are causing the inflammation. With my second one I was able to determine that corn and sugar was an issue because within hours I was feeling it. My knees began to ache and recently I had the same experience with knees,then my hip and finally my shoulder over the course of about 3 days this week so sugar (goodbye chocolate :( ) seems to be out.

On the positive side she says that she has been able to reintroduce foods that she once had a sensitivity to after healing her stomach. This took years mind you but she says that today she can safely eat most all of the foods she once had to avoid.

So far I am enjoying this book and it makes sense. I know that there are some tests that are available that can help to determine foods that one has a sensitivity to but I also know that some of these tests have some controversy about their real effectiveness. I may still do them if only to get an idea of the ones I need to stay away from while working on healing.

I have had alot of stomach issues and over the last few years these have become really obvious especially with the biologics. I seem to keep having side effects related to my gut with them and I had to recently stop taking one as a result.

Also, I have spent some time fasting and I had good results with seeing a real decrease in inflammation on my 3rd day of this. It was not fun but I really felt a lot better afterward.

At any rate I am enjoying her book and I may speak with her regarding how to go about taking steps toward healing to get her take on my personal situation. I really dont have much to lose at this point and I am running out of meds that I can take.