I thought it best to put up my progress with the diet. If enough people do this, I suppose there will be a good data base of cases for people to analyse.
I am a 46 year old male. I basically have had neck and other joint pains since about 2001. The neck pains could be quite severe, with muscle spasms. Then around 2007 or so, psoriatic patches appeared. I hardly have had back pain, Maybe , severe back pain for three days per year. However, for the last 3 weeks , i have constant inflammatory back pain ( wakes me up at night, improves with exercise, associated with other large joint pain, and fatigue)
I know things have taken a worse turn.
Throughout the last ten years, my ESR and CRP were essentially normal, even when symptoms were strong) (CRP was only once raised to 20). I do not have recent sacrolialc joint X Rays. My HLA B27 is negative.
Like most people, I have been to many rheumatologists (4), all saying that they can't work out what is going on. My working diagnosis is psoriatic spondylitis.
Medicines wise, I hardly take anything. Either the pains are very tolerable, so I need nothing, or they are too severe for NSAIDS to make a difference. Also, I suppose in the back ground, I have fear how toxic long term NSAIDS could be...
I also have diarrhoea predominant irritable bowel disease.
Last edited by pspondylitis; 03/27/12 02:07 PM.
