Going to Start an elimination diet - any tips

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english_cousin
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Going to Start an elimination diet - any tips

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Morning all

I'm really begining to come round to the idea that diet plays a big part in my case and am going to start an elimination diet on Monday. I've read a bit about them and have a few ideas. Was going to eat very simply for first week, Porridge oats with milk for breakfast, lunch of tuna/chicken salad (no tomatoes or peppers) and main meal of chicken/tuna with veg and brown rice/potatoes. Will try and get good quality organic meat/fish/veg where possible. Will only drink water and keep off snacks and fruit. After the first week I understand I'm then meant to slowly introduce different food types, not sure how to go about this bit yet but will do more research. Maybe start with some wholemeal pasta or something.

not the most exciting diet but only for a week so guess it won't kill me. I have a few concern like where I will get the correct amount of fibre from, have odd tendency towards mild constipation which is fine on my usual diet which contains lots of fruit and wholemeal bread. Should I take a fibre supplement for the duration or will this have an adverse impact on the whole point of the diet.

Anyway, in a weird way I'm quite looking forward to seeing what happens. I'm an engineer so my 'logical' brain has kicked in and I'm treating this like fault finding a complicated network problem, yes I'm a geek :-D

Any tips much appreciated
nick
Age: Onset 37 Age: 38 | Symptoms: Initially testicle/penis pain, over last 9 months has changed to be mainly perineum pain. Never had any frequency or urgency issues (well not yet anyway) | Helped By: PT, stretching, hot bath | Worsened By: Exercise, ejaculation, i think sitting for long time doesnt help but this is a recent development
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Re: Going to Start an elimination diet - any tips

Post by Sherradin »

Keep to chicken in the beginning as tuna is high in salicylates and may be some of the problem. Introduce it first as a test if you symptoms settle.

See low salicylate diet foods as they are the lowest in natural food chemicals. Highest in sals is fruit and wine and spices..all make my bladder flare.

I am finding as the PT helps more and more the food is less irritating. I think in some people the irritation of the taught internal muscles stirs up the nerve endings in the bladder and that's why food starts to be a problem. It has always been a very big trigger to me as my pelvic pain is around my bladder referred from my abs and buttocks.
CPP since 2005. Prior to CPP always overly fit and active. I am female. Had two natural births: singleton 1998 and twins 2000. 2002 emergency back surgery - L5S1 herniation. Then recurring UTIs. Usual antibiotic overload. Then constant debilitating burning bladder and reaction to many foods. Australian Pain Clinic 2007. Turning point was Dec 2009 Attended Wise Clinic in Santa Rosa USA.
Was helped by strict diet but now eating normally after years of restricted diet - wonderful. Helped by: stretching,relaxation, yoga, trigger point, warm baths. Worsened by: stress, sitting, abdominal or glute exercises and salicylates
Medication: Now off all pain clinic meds no more Endone or Elavil only Lyrica 50 mg as Dec 2010 just reherniated L5S1disc and had discectomy. Its taken years but I feel I am over it.
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