Last evening after one of the most pain free days I’ve had in several weeks we went out to dinner and I had a low country sautéed dish with shrimp and sausage and new potatoes in a broth. I didn’t eat the potatoes but did drink the broth. Last night I had one of the worst flair ups of neuropathic pain ever, so I’m up at 4:30 a.m. trying to figure out what happened. I think the “bad stuff” leached out of the potatoes and was in the broth. The last time I had such a bad night was after eating a meal of tomato sauce on spaghetti squash. Of course tomatoes and potatoes are both in the nightshade family (along with eggplants and peppers). They contain an alkaloid that can be very toxic to some people, and apparently you can develop a sensitivity to it over time as I have. Nightshades are one more thing I need to avoid eating along with gluten, bread, sugar, fake sugar and alcohol.

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