Special Diets

My vulvodynia had been long-standing (7 years!) and I accidentally found out that I was sensitive to the solanacea family of foods (potato, tomato, chilli, capsicum, eggplant, tobacco) when I was sick with gastroenteritis for a week and couldn't eat solids.  During that time, my vulvodynia symptoms completely disappeared, so it occurred to me that my symptoms could be explained by what I was eating.  As I gradually introduced food after the gastro, I found that my symptoms came back with a vengeance whenever I ate particularly potato and tomato.  I have cut these items out of my diet completely now and for the past four years only have a flare-up of vulvodynia whenever I accidentally eat any of those foods I'm sensitive to.  It's very difficult to find pre-made foods without tomato for instance, I have to read labels a lot and also do a lot of my own cooking from scratch.  But I've been interested to find how many of my friends had been suffering in silence and when I started talking about this they also tried an elimination diet and been cured.  This is after years of chasing my tail with doctors who had no idea, by the way, I was told it was all sorts of things and nothing doctors gave me ever did any good.  But try to cut out the solanaceas for a little while.  All you've got to lose is your vulvodynia!

Minamii

Very dark chocolate e.g 85% has very little sugar. I tried a low oxalate diet but that didn’t seem to make any difference.

Very dark chocolate e.g 85% has very little sugar. I tried reducing oxalates which is supposed to help but that didn’t seem to make any difference.

Be careful with chocolate if you're sensitive of oxalates, chocolate has quite high levels.  

Minamii