ChrisD
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I mainly try to maintain a High fat diet with minimal sugar (as do many) but should I accidentally or intentionally indulge in anything slightly sugary, even a piece of fruit, within 30 mins (or sometimes as little as 10) it can evoke all of my Fibro symptoms. Firstly Pain in typical areas, forearms, hips and then a tight chest and slight breathlessness, increased heart rate and irritability/feeling of unease, then TMJ Pain and cracking, the muscle pain all over becomes stiffness and also leads to crepitus/cracking, then comes the brain fog.
So as you can imagine, eating any sugar is a far from pleasant experience for me, in fact I wince at any nice treats now like GF Chocolate cake or even something as simple as a slice of mango. I am trying to making sense of why this happens?! IS it bacteria in my gut feeding on the sugar and kicking out toxins into the blood stream and increasing inflammation, is it simply leaky gut and the sugar is leaking into the blood? someone suggested that it could be due to PDH and glucose being converted straight to Lactate? Someone else suggested that this sounded more Lyme related.....
Any thoughts would be appreciated? do others with ME experience this symptom? From what I have read it seems that people experience more neurological symptoms when eating sugar....
So as you can imagine, eating any sugar is a far from pleasant experience for me, in fact I wince at any nice treats now like GF Chocolate cake or even something as simple as a slice of mango. I am trying to making sense of why this happens?! IS it bacteria in my gut feeding on the sugar and kicking out toxins into the blood stream and increasing inflammation, is it simply leaky gut and the sugar is leaking into the blood? someone suggested that it could be due to PDH and glucose being converted straight to Lactate? Someone else suggested that this sounded more Lyme related.....
Any thoughts would be appreciated? do others with ME experience this symptom? From what I have read it seems that people experience more neurological symptoms when eating sugar....