/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Fibromyalgia is not a real disease.
Fibromyalgia is cured by anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds.
You do the math.

hey op i'm curious as to whether fibromyalgia is a real disease. What does it feel like?

Also i'm dubious about gluten being a reason for flair up. But i recently found out people eat buckwheat not just buckwheat flour in stuff. So experiment with that.

>>16061970
I ate pasta doused in tomato sauce, beef meatballs and downed about a quart of wine.
I could hardly sleep last night because my muscles were completely restless.

They don't know what causes it so they throw whatever they can at it.
Before I start taking pills I'm changing my diet.
If I do go down the pill route, Gabapentin or Lyrica seems like the best choice - neither of which are anti-depressants or anti-anxiety - they're nerve pain medications.

Thanks for the bump though.

>>16062053
Gabapentin gave me weird dreams and made me drowsy af. Just clean your diet up, foam roll, and exercise.

>>16062053
you ate gluten doused with nightshade vegetable sauce
both of these cause inflammation
look up tom brady diet

>>16061907
How much do you weigh? What's your blood pressure? Do you exercise regularly? Do you have high cholesterol/bloodsugar/sodium levels?

If you haven't addressed the above first, fuck your fibromyalgia.

>>16062051
Muscle wise it feels like restless leg syndrome mostly.
Your muscles ache and feel better when you apply deep tissue to the area - at least for me that helps.

But there is a ton of different symptoms people can exhibit which might not seem like they have anything to do with fibromyalgia.
>Restless Leg Syndrome
>Sleepless nights (because of the restless leg syndrome usually, other muscles of my body are effects aside from my quads and gastrocs)
>IBS
>random welts/hives (I always blamed it on my allergies)
>rashes
>general fatigue (I always thought it was because I'm fat, part of it probably is)
>numbness and tingling in fingers/toes
>headaches

I almost thought I was becoming pre-diabetic but my bloodwork is fine for diabetes and my iron levels are fine.

>>16062068
240lb / 5'9".
Usually just a couple of points about average 125 over 83 or something.
Exercise is light, mostly just to move rather than elevate my heart rate.
Cholesterol/Bloodsugar/Sodium is all good - just had a bunch of blood work done

Sodium in particular is 144 mEq/L.
>fuck your fibromyalgia.
No need to be so rude.

>>16061907
Strict Paleo is gluten-free. That said, lots of people on Paleo are fine with gluten, so double check that the recipe is actually strict paleo.

>>16062572
I was thinking about that just a bit ago.
I think it would be easier to go from a gluten free diet to a paleo diet since the gluten free allows for some grains, sugars, low diary and other processed items.

Paleo is much more strict but still probably the healthiest diet a person can adhere to.
This thread wasn't very fruitful so I just purchased a gluten-free cookbook to give me some ideas.

Cheers.

>>16062704
>This thread wasn't very fruitful so I just purchased a gluten-free cookbook to give me some ideas
not much else to suggest. been gluten-free almost my entire life (celiac), but can't really think of anything that would be of much help.
its an exclusion diet. read the labels and don't eat things with gluten in them. usually wheat/gluten is listed with the other common allergens (contains:milk,soy,wheat,eggs, etc) but it can hide in other things (barley malt comes to mind. for some reason they usually don't catch that or something).
you will find that specialty gluten-free products are very expensive and of dramatically varying quality. they can be fun on occasion but are probably not worth frequenting as staples.
gluten-free bread is mostly sliced sandwich loaves. Udi's is usually considered the all around best, Canyon Bakehouse is good too. pretty recently Aldi has released a gluten-free line of products called "liveGfree", the bread is nice, sort of tastes like gluten-free pretzels.

>>16063064
udi's is shit, schar's is where it's at.

>>16062053
>Gabapentin or Lyrica
Both can be used as anxiolytic and Lyrica has abuse potential.

>>16063074
honestly haven't had Udi's in a few years. schar used to be garbageh like a decade ago but has seriously improved in recent years

>>16062704
>Paleo is much more strict but still probably the healthiest diet a person can adhere to.
It's healthier than the typical diet full of processed food, but it's not completely based on facts. Humans were eating bread made from wild grains before we became farmers, so the paleo diet treating grains as something inherently bad and trying to claim hunter-gatherers never ate them has been debunked.

>le gluten-free meme when you don't have celiac disease.
I recommend just cutting carbs in general, especially since gluten free diets are more often than not even more carbs loaded than normal diets

>fibromyalgia
>gluten free

You're just a massive hypochondriac faggot