This year has been flying by! I can't believe it is almost summer already. We've been busy with our homeschool co-op, doing school work and in general, living.
The one thing that has changed for me is that I have gone gluten-free in my diet. It's been about 6 weeks (with only 1 oops! moment), and it has made a difference! My rheumatoid arthritis has not flared up, except for my oops moment, and that only reinforces that eliminating gluten is a good thing for me. The other up-side of no gluten is that I've lost 15 pounds and since the RA has not shown it's ugly head, I'm feeling so much better and moving more. There is a downside too--now the family expects me to clean again! And after 6 years of feeling poorly and hurting almost constantly, there is a lot of cleaning to do! I'm still taking it one day at a time. Only now, each day at a time doesn't require a two- to three-hour nap to get through!
I know that going gluten-free doesn't help everyone, though. I have two friends that went gluten-free at the same time I did, and it didn't help them. I wish that it had, though. And if you, or someone you know and love, is hurting each and every day, whether it be with RA or some other auto-immune disease, don't dismiss the whole gluten-free thing. I wish I'd tried it sooner. Then maybe I wouldn't feel like I had wasted so much time.
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