Allergy Testing and IA

Basicquestions12

Hello again!

Just another question to anyone with inflammatory arthritis. I’m currently on methotrexate and it’s working at putting my Arthritis into remission so far. Although I find the drug amazing , it’s not something I ideally want to be on forever.

I have been exploring ideas about food and chronic illness, especially gluten. Has anyone ever cut these good groups out and noticed a difference? Or has anyone had allergy testing and found they had some issues?

Thanks again

stickywicket

It's very understandable that you'd not want to be on meds for life. I guess we all feel like that. But, alas, we have dodgy immune systems that are ours for life and that's just how it is.

I tried diets in my early days. I got worse, probably because I was cutting out essential food groups. I also tried allergy testing from what I suspect is the biggest such lab on the UK commercial scene. I wish I'd saved my money.

Here's what a BBC doctor had to say about them. I consider it very sound advice. https://tinyurl.com/sm4j59v

dreamdaisy

A misbehaving immune system will continue to misbehave until the host organism is no longer viable. I had intolerance testing in its very early days and scored highly on things that still affect me today including moulds, spores, egg white, vitamin C, dairy, pollen and dander.

I choose to take the meds to make life bearable and occasionally enjoyable but mostly it's tough going. It would be far worse without. DD