My wife primarily suffers from cognitive issues related to her MS. It's pretty severe. Multi-tasking is not possible. Simple math skills are a challenge. Conversation is limited. Does anyone know if the diet can reverse these effects? She has been on the diet since early February 2009, but we see no improvement yet.
Thanks for the encouraging
Thanks for the encouraging words. We will keep trying the diet. It at least gives us some hope. Still not enough time to determine key foods to stay away from. I will read the labels carefully.
Hello jimrunsalot. I saw
Hello jimrunsalot. I saw your posting and can relate. I want to say that I am sorry that your wife is having such cognitive difficulties. I have found cognitive problems and extreme fatigue to be my biggest problems--not surprisingly the cognitive issues are worse when the fatigue is worse. Anyway, I wanted to encourage you and your wife to keep moving forward on the diet and really give it a good try. I have been on it since October/November of 2008 and I just noticed in the last few days that "hey, I haven't had any of those crying for no reason and feeling like I'm crazy and can't think days" in the last couple of weeks. I used to have them all the time, for days at a time. I have avoided all of the recommended five foods listed in the book, tried my best to keep my saturated fat low, reduced sugar intake, drink only water (with one Diet Coke with Splenda as my evil on occasion). I have also found that some other foods cause me problems, which you and your wife may want to explore: corn and oats and DEFINITELY and most recently discovered soy. I would notice that if I ate even the most pure of oat-based cereal I inevitably had a "bad" day--which usually meant that I just couldn't think right, felt like I wasn't making sense when talking so I would avoid conversations, felt terribly exhausted, cried a lot, etc. Now that I stick to only rice chex or rice krispies with rice dream rice milk in the mornings, I am not having a bad day right off the bat! Anyway, keep trying. I found that the original five typical offenders did offer me some relief, but the others--corn, oats, and especially soy (which is hidden in everything under the sun and difficult to avoid--read labels carefully) really made a big difference and has finally given me some light and drive to keep going. BUT I have been doing this for about 6 months and I only just recently discovered my latest and one of my most troublesome offenders soy. SO, keep going and give it time to really explore. It certainly can't hurt and can only, hopefully, help. Ana