food

I was told recently to avoid night shade foods. Does anyone have a list or know exactely what consists of night shade foods? They say that for people with fibro, it is supposed to be avoided.

Has done got up and went. I don't know what happened! Last week I was al full-steam ahead. This weekend the only major cleaning that got done was de-cluttering of the DVR by catching up on "Walking Dead" and getting 6 hours of recorded material off of it. I did manage to "swish and swipe" ONE...

This topic has been mentioned by a few members of the forum, so I thought I would share some information about it. Burning mouth syndrome or sometimes called glossodynia, means tongue pain. However, the pain and burning can involve the lips and tongue, the roof of the mouth and inside of the...

Now this might just be a problem I have but I was wondering if any of you have trouble swallowing certain foods? Like rice or meat, etc... I love rice, but the types of rice that are good for me, I can't swallow unless they are cooked in a soup or stew. Yesterday I got a craving or yellow rice...

I am a firm believer in the dangers of tap water. I know people say that bottled water is just as bad. That might be the case, I am not a tech. However, When I had CFS and Fibro, going to bottled water made a change for the better for me. I lost a lot of the aches and pains that I had. I...

I guess you all know by now my favorite comfort food is a big chocoloate milk shake, made with almond milk and Hersey's chocolate syrup, and vanilla ice cream. No it is not completely healthy but it makes me happy when I am sad or depressed from fibro. I usually snack on fresh veggies or...

Note the strawberry or chocolate kind mores the pity but bodily shakes. I find on occasion I can get very bad shakes and tremors. sometimes its more internal like having butterflies. sometimes its very visable. but the odd thing to me is it tends to be more apparent on one side of my body...

So I've had doctors say "Well, it could be Fibromyalgia. Here, you should try this Metanx stuff." It's basically a B-vitamin food supplement that costs an arm and a leg and is marketed for diabetic neuropathy, not fibromyalgia. Another doctor did some blood tests and said "You have non-specific...

After reading some of your posts I found something a lot of us have in common. Food or medicine allergies. I am allergic to shellfish, iodine, morphine, cortisone and some kinds of antibiotics. Some of my allergies have severe reactions, others only worsen my IBS. The cortisone for instance...

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