RE: Help please, severe tendonitis
I had a very severe problem with tendonitis in my fingers/wrists while typing/using mouse (I have a desk job) and thought I would have to find a new job. Around the same time I was seeing a naturopath and we happened to do the finger prick food sensitivity test. Came back half the foods I was eating I was sensitive to. One morning I had to do some blood testing which required fasting and went to work without eating. Fingers felt great! Then I had some chocolate (which I tested sensitive too) and shortly after my fingers got inflamed. I cut out chocolate and my usual breakfast and fingers went back to normal! I was shocked. I worked back in the foods and if fingers felt bad again I knew I couldn't eat that food. Later discovered that I probably had leaky gut and what I think caused it: taking iron supplements. Yes iron can do a lot of damage including cause leaky gut. After taking iron supplements, I now get tendonitis when eating chocolate and developed a severe sulfur sensitivity, plus iron feeds pathogens and I have some chronic infections, plus while taking the iron my thyroid started going bad, stopped it and thyroid got better. Long story short, iron is very damaging in pill form, best to get it from grassfed beef liver and sometimes tendonitis is caused by food that is causing an inflammatory response in the body. Also men tend to accumulate iron as they age as they don't have a monthly cycle to get rid of iron. Not saying free iron is necessarily what is causing every case of tendonitis but perhaps some tendonitis (definitely mine) is caused by leaky gut/food sensitivities and in my case I believe caused by damage caused by the wrong kind of iron (damned pills dolled out by damned doctors). Perhaps you could see if you have some particular foods that are driving up the inflammation in your body. P.S. I still can't eat chocolate, but hoping that will change.
Hi @cath.
Thanks for taking the time to help. It is interesting, and logical that what we eat has a direct effect on our health. I generally stay away from supplements and have a pretty healthy diet.
P.S. I do love my chocolate... from time to time of course :D
Yes, you can get a sensitivity to any food, just depends if you have had leaky gut (can be caused by stress, candida, or in my case iron pills which is the toxic form of iron I found out the hard way), then whatever food leaked out whole and got recognized by the immune system now will trigger inflammation (as the blood is not supposed to see whole proteins leaking out from the gut, just digested amino acids). In my case it was chocolate that was causing tendonitis in my hands, but I also noticed when I eat kelp my arms get sore, so I think there is something in chocolate that resembles the proteins in tendons and my body became sensitized to chocolate as it leaked out and now thinks it should attack tendons and I think there is something in kelp that looks like ligaments in arms, now when I eat kelp my body wants to attack that... After stopping my daily chocolate my tendonitis went away completely. I bought a 1/2 liter of chocolate ice cream a few years later and the after eating it 3 days in a row the pain was coming back. I'm doing NAET treatments and maybe it will desensitize me to it.