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Has anyone used an anti inflammatory diet to get off prednisone ?
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Sep 10 3:50pm | Replies (33)Comment receiving replies
I am a registered dietitian and have eaten an anti-inflammatory diet for a couple of decades now and only contracted a mild case of PMR, which only hurt me at night in bed. It took 4 months to diagnose and I had no inflammatory markers at all. I weaned off of a low dose of prednisone in about a year and haven't had a reoccurence since Dec. 2022. I have posted about my diet multiple times in this forum, so you can do searches and find my previous posts. What I don't like about your doctor's recommended diet is the oats and nightshades part of it. He must be a Dr. Gundry follower, which I would never advise. Here is a debunking of his book: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/dr-gundrys-the-plant-paradox-is-wrong/
As I keep telling my kids, 'Put a rainbow on your plate".
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@janiceem hi. Thanks for writing about your journey. So is your anti inflammatory diet that strict? No gluten dairy sugar alcohol? It actually wasn’t my drs recommendation- a friend of mine had gone on this diet with 2 auto immune diseases and after a month was not on any meds at all - only Tylenol occasionally. So I convinced my specialist to let me try it for a month. Oats in Australia (where I live) are not considered gf - as they may contain traces of gluten. I’m trying to be very strict and eat like a coeliac. I can’t imagine living like this forever though.
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A dietician would be familiar with the standard elimination diet, which is what @michwest appears to be on. Tomatoes and nightshade family plants are among the first to be eliminated, nothing to do with Gundry. And oats are eliminated along with other starchy foods.