I've been discussing this option with another forum member for a few weeks now. My last blood workup a few weeks ago showed I pretty deficient in almost everything or borderline low on everything. Since I stopped the Humira in February I'm back to feeling terrible. Not as bad as I was pre-humira or even a year ago but still not like I should be. I'm attributing most of my problems now to lack of vitamins and nutrition.
So I've decided to go on a boost only diet supplementing with a multi-vitamin, B12 tabs (my B12 is the only thing that is ok but it did drop 150 points from Jan to March .. I stopped taking tabs during that time to see what would happen). As well as B6 and Folic Acid as my red count is low and MCV is high which I've read is an issue with B6 and FA. I've only started today so I can't say I've noticed anything. I'm going to be on 2,000 cals a day which is 8 bottles of the normal stuff. I am also going to try, which will be very very very hard for me to limit myself to 1 soda a day. I normally drink like 6 or more. Also with the recent price increase in ciggies, I've decided it's too expensive to smoke anymore. I have a couple packs left from a carton and once those are gone I'm going to try and go cold turkey.
It's a bunch of changes at once and I am sure I'll fail in one facet if not more but I'm at a loss of what to do anymore as the doctors sure aren't helping me much. I'm going 4 days with Boost only and then slow re-introduce solids to see what happens. I did get some pudding (american not brit) to add something with a little consistency to my diet but I'm going to try to limit myself to 1 packet a day so that I can stay as liquid as possible.
If 4 days goes well I may extend beyond that but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. My biggest issue right now is exhaustion and vomiting so if I can resolve at least one of those issues I'll consider this little experiment a success.
So I've decided to go on a boost only diet supplementing with a multi-vitamin, B12 tabs (my B12 is the only thing that is ok but it did drop 150 points from Jan to March .. I stopped taking tabs during that time to see what would happen). As well as B6 and Folic Acid as my red count is low and MCV is high which I've read is an issue with B6 and FA. I've only started today so I can't say I've noticed anything. I'm going to be on 2,000 cals a day which is 8 bottles of the normal stuff. I am also going to try, which will be very very very hard for me to limit myself to 1 soda a day. I normally drink like 6 or more. Also with the recent price increase in ciggies, I've decided it's too expensive to smoke anymore. I have a couple packs left from a carton and once those are gone I'm going to try and go cold turkey.
It's a bunch of changes at once and I am sure I'll fail in one facet if not more but I'm at a loss of what to do anymore as the doctors sure aren't helping me much. I'm going 4 days with Boost only and then slow re-introduce solids to see what happens. I did get some pudding (american not brit) to add something with a little consistency to my diet but I'm going to try to limit myself to 1 packet a day so that I can stay as liquid as possible.
If 4 days goes well I may extend beyond that but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. My biggest issue right now is exhaustion and vomiting so if I can resolve at least one of those issues I'll consider this little experiment a success.