Fibromyalga, Do you have it??

Question

My Rheumatologist first thought I had Rheumatoid arthritis, then osteoarthritis, finally fibromyalga. This was after five years of being sick.

In April I read an article about ASPARTAME allergy. My husband is Diabetic, so we would have a sugar free Fudgecycle every evening (it contains aspartame.) Well after getting the flu I stopped the fudgecyles. Amazingly enough ALL PAIN LEFT ME. I now pay close attention to what sweeteners are in foods and am 95% pain free.

In the previous five years my knees had been so bad that I could barely walk. Then my wrists became so bad that I had to hold them over my head for the pain to ease. Then the total fatigue and body aches, then it hit my thumb joints and mid and low spine. I had been on Vicodin daily for 5 years and now am without anything except Excedrin occassionally.

Three days off any aspartame and the pain was gone.

What is left is my regular age related discomfort. If I do slip up and eat something with Aspartame in it my thumb joint and elbow joint will begin to hurt again. But in a day or two it is gone again.

Hopefully this might help someone else, maybe.

Answer 1

what exactly is your age ? have you been officially diagnosed with fibromayalgia ( 11of the 18 tender point test )  im suspecting i have fibro myself i have chronic pain through out my body and am waiting for a dianogis you mention fatigue this is a huge indercator of fibro.stay away from aspatatme it is agravating your condition i have heard if this ocuring before in people this disease is baffiling to doctors and hard to treat let alone dianogse i hope i helpd some hearing about other people with  fibro is allways a comfort beceause its had to relate to other people who do not suffer THANK YOU FOR THIS POST !

Answer 2

My mom has fibro and her pain levels are heavily affected by what she eats.  If she eats anything with starch (like potatoes) her pain gets much worse.  I think everyone has pain food triggers.  

Answer 3

Oh my god - that's amazing!  I have FMS so as of right this second I'm going to stop Aspertame containing foods and see if I can't get some results like this.

Thanks so much :D

Answer 4

Thank you for posting that!  I always take suggestions from real patients (not studies) to my doctor to see what he says and also because he is interested in hearing what other patients say.  

I cut out all white flour, rice, sugar, all the white stuff (lol) from my diet and it helped quite a bit.  If I eat any sugar, I can tell within a few hours because I will ache so bad.  But I never thought of Aspertame.  Years ago, a doctor told me they released that before the FDA did enough studies on it.  Seems to happen with a lot of things.

In any case, I'm so glad you took the time to post that info.  Who knows how many people you have helped?