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Diet & PMR.

Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Jun 17 7:09am | Replies (79)

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Since being diagnosed with PMR in August 2024, I have resorted to a low sugar, high protein, high calcium diet. I don't eat any pre-packaged foods, and severely limit white flour and white rice. Not only have I kept my labs in the normal zone, but the diet has apparently also improved my thyroid. It had been on a downward spiral to hypothyroidism, but the last labs put me back in the zone of normal thyroid.

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My diet is similar to yours, but I haven't had any rice or flour for two years - no gluten or high oxalate foods either. My blood tests and blood pressure have both been good too, and no weight gain on prednisone.

Diet as medicine is so much overlooked and undervalued generally. I don't know if some people don't know the big impact that diet has on health, or if they just don't want to change what they eat. Doctors don't emphasise the importance of healthy eating and dieticians often suggest things that are not so good. Well done on using food as medicine and getting that thyroid healthy again.