Garlic, C Reactive Protein, and My Brand New Diet (I guess)

[flamingsword]

My sedimentation rate is normal, according to the recent blood tests, and I am negative for antinuclear antibodies and rheumatoid factor. But my C Reactive protein is testing higher than it should be. 😣

Since there is now a possibility that I could have something like lupus or another inflammatory condition, I have started on the dietary restrictions recommended for lupus. Which sucks, because it is a sugar-free diet with no fried foods and no *garlic*. I'm gonna be bitchy about this for a while. Garlic is apparently an immune system activator? Which makes it healthy for people who don't have an autoimmune condition, but I am not one of those people. Boo.

I went off of the gabapentin for a few days, and my anxiety did not change much but my pain did and I immediately had a migraine, so apparently that is working fine. But yesterday was the first day in a long time when I haven't felt like my life was a comedy of errors written by a sadist, and today I feel back to my previous version of normal, so the dietary changes are working ... dammit. Which means I have to keep them.

Time to invest in some sugar free chocolate, I guess.

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[jackjanderson]

How is the new diet going?

[flamingsword]

Really well. I did the dechallenge-rechallenge trick with the garlic, and nothing happened pain or headache-wise, so I am leaving that in my diet, and I am slowly learning how to live on a keto-like diet with no sugar and much lower carbs than I have ever had. It's not miserable, but it is definitely more of an adventure than I was hoping for, learning how to make low carb breads and finding recipes that I will actually make and eat.