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Grover's Disease: What works to help find relief?
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I have had Grover's Disease for over 4 years praying it would go away. I treated it with steroids for years and tried to make sure I was wearing the correct fabrics and doing all the things my dermatologist suggested. I have Hashimoto's and have also had multiple autoimmune issues x 30 years. About 2 years ago I started looking at my diet. I cut out gluten 2 years ago, and my skin slightly improved. 1 year ago I cut out dairy and eggs. My skin stayed the same. My husband and I started hearing about and researching the carnivore diet. 30 days ago I started in on just meat, salt and water. I started it as an elimination diet to see what triggered my autoimmune symptoms. After 14 days I added back in minimal dairy including hard cheese, heavy whipping cream in my coffee and butter. My skin is 90% clear. If you're reading this, please research plant oxalates and plant anti-nutrients and what it does to your gut health. If anything, use the carnivore diet as an elimination diet short term, to see what foods are triggering your symptoms. I truly believe that diet is the answer to cure this.
If going this route, please research the diet thoroughly before you start. There are tricks to doing this safely and correctly, and taking this route requires knowledge to keeping your body safe, while you adjust to a sudden change. Again research: carnivore diet, oxalates, oxalate dumping, lectins, plant antinutrients and Sally K. Norton who is leading the research on this. I believe there are good plants to eat, I just don't believe all of them are safe for you.
I know if you are suffering from this disease, you're willing to try anything to live normal again. I spent multiple hours on chat boards trying to find answers. This is the first time I've felt hopeful that this will go away and I can go to sleep at night without my skin feeling like it's on fire. Good luck to everyone posting on here. I pray you find answers and your own path to a cure.
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I have 3 type of eczema and resisted dietary changes, but my yeast misery gave me the impetus to try diet change based on my gynecologist recommendation. Your diet plan is more restrictive, but both of us are having great results. Thank goodness I like meat!! The Dr. William Crook, MD anti-inflammation diet to kill the stubborn yeast which resides in the intestines and gives off waste byproducts raising our inflammation (this is because yeast byproducts going into our bloodstream raise our histamine levels) is also heavy on meat, but I get poultry, fish, probiotic yogurt and eggs, almonds and walnuts and this detox allows masses of vegetables, except night shades. It is also stated to help with eczema. After the 2 month detox my decades old chronic yeast inflammation issues were gone!!! No inflammation in my female privates. Now 6 months later and on modified diet control-no processed sugar, natural sugar limited and zero carbs for life, yeast symptoms still gone and no meds to help!!! I believe dietary changes help with many forms of eczema, especially the most common type, Atopic which I don't have. My types of eczema aren't simply related to diet, as I must control my external contacts and exposure. My GD has definitely been helped by joining the Cilantro Club; nothing else ever made much difference. Steroids did nothing. Everyone should try this cilantro plan unless they have some sort of vitamin allergy. With the Crook diet, going off the sugar and carbs made no noticeable difference with my GD, in fact after being on this plan for 4 months I began another residual breakout of GD. Yet may have helped with my ACD because I did not need my annual corticosteroid shot in Dec after starting this elimination diet in Oct. Even with all my contact avoidance's I still required on annually until this year. My Perioral Eczema, PE has been controlled since I learned what to avoid. The PE contacts are not allergies and different than the ACD 5 Day Patch Test Allergens so can't say if diet helped with that as I learned to control it before dietary changes.