I've not experienced that from eating carbs. But I have heard that low carb diets do reduce joint pain, so maybe a high amount of carbs can cause an increase in pain?

Diet can effect a lot of things, its strange how things we eat can affect symptoms. Its like using the Ketogenic diet for controlling epilepsy symptoms, it doesn't work for all with the condition but for those it works for it improves their lives a lot.

Our bodies are just too complicated sometimes lol. Hope your not in too much pain now ((hugs))

It's not in your head. There's lots of info out there that mentions that gluten free is the way to go for MS'ers. It's why Terry Wahls recommends the 9 cups of fruit and veggies per day and Dr. Hyman has a diet out there on how to cut out the carbs and gluten and pick up things like veggie broth.

I use cauliflower rice instead of regular rice. I pulse it up in the food processor and steam it. I make sauces out of jasmine rice flour which I grind up in my coffee grinder. I sautee zucchini and onion and add my rice flour to it and pour the whole thing over some cauliflower rice. Tastes pretty good to me. Of course, you have to like cauliflower. But there are plenty of ways to get around the carbs. I eat lots of spinach and generally have two veggies and a salad at dinner time.

Also, carbs make us crave more carbs. Works the same as sugar. It's best to cut them both out of the diet although it seems near impossible at this time of year. :)

There are plenty of helps out there and if you need any more advice on good things to eat, just let me know. :) I'm always happy to share what I've learned.

So, don't think any of this is in your head. It's a real fact for MS'ers that we don't mix well with carbs, sugar and gluten. :)

Thanks guys! Yeah I will go back to my normal diet now lol...I just can't help myself around the holidays. The pain in constant today...horrible! Hopefully it will get better over the weekend. (((hugs)))

Also, are you taking fish oil? A man who worked for me on my flooring says that he takes cod liver oil and it is in his fifties and he has no joint pain. I will get some cod liver oil but in the meantime I am taking fish oil and flax seed oil. I don't really have pain per se. I have discomfort from where I had surgery.

Lorrie is right about eliminating sugar, carbs and gluten. I made a gluten free pie with organic apples but it did have sugar. So it is possible to find gluten free pie crusts at the farmer's market. The hard part is without the sugar. But the pie came out so good. The sugar was organic but still sugar. This is the holidays and it will be the only time I make a pie for many, many more moons.

Hi Ezone, I take fish oil, and flax seed oil. The more time that goes by the more I think this is Fibromyalgia, but the four lesions on my brain is throwing me off. (((hugs)))

I'm doing just fine, have been doing just fine for nearly 20 years, Diet hasn't had any effect on my MS. I believe some folks wish it did, they want to have more control of their MS. Sorry, just don't believe it does.