AIP diet: no more horrendous pain from endo -all gone!!!

[Lapinblanc88]

Hello ,

I just wanted to give my experience with the auto immune protocol diet. It has changed my life.

I've suffered from terrible period pains and nausea since I was 13. Then I went on the pill for 13 years.

When I stopped the pill, the pain came back. Went to hospital twice in a year in 2017 . They wanted to remove my appendix and I had to beg them not to do it and had to sign a discharge note.later on, a scan showed a 5cm endometrioma and laat year I finally received my first diagnosis: deep endometriosis ( 20 years later!)

Anyway, I was so fed up with the pain and having to take a huge dose on anti inflammatory every month that I started to look at the root cause of endometriosis.

Some scholars think that it is a autoimmune disease which makes perfect sense to me. Looking for lifestyle changes, i came across the autoimmune diet (AIP).

This diet aims to cure the root cause of many auto immune diseases: leaky gut.

When you embark on this diet , you have to remove a great deal of food ( you can check this online) . And you are meant to reintroduce each aliments on their own, one by one ( again plenty of websites explaining the protocol online)

After 2 months on the diet, my period stopped hurting , I felts less exhausted, was in a much better mood, better sleep too.

My endometrioma shrank to 1cm and my ovaries are not touching anymore. No more diarrhea, too

I haven't taken a single ibuprofen in 14months!

I just want everyone to try this diet. It's seems very restrictive and it is. You will have to spend a lot of time cooking and preparing food. The hunger goes away after a month. It is not a carb free diet. And you can still eat quite a bit.

I have tried to reintroduce some food I had not idea I was deeply intolerant to like potatoes, Cheese, almonds and tomatoes.

The week I tried potatoes, my period were very painful for the first time in a year. I believe that my gut health and endometriosis pain are deeply linked. I also had joints pain which stop during the diet.

I recommend every one with agonising pain to try this diet. It has changed my quality of life and I do not dread my periods anymore.

[PinkBanann]

Is this similar to low FODMAP?

[Lapinblanc88 in reply to PinkBanann]

It isn't as you are still allowed to have them.

The diet is also focused on healing your gut

Here is a non exhaustive list of food you should remove initially and then try to reintroduce them one by one :

Gluten, all grains, coffee, alcohol , all nuts, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, aubergine, spices, seeds, dairy, pulses. I'm sure I forgotten some...

Ok to have: root vegetables, most veggies, good quality and preferably organic meat and fish.

Then , after 3months you starts reintroducing everything you've removed one by one and monitor your well-being and symptoms.

It takes a v long time but it's the only way of knowing what you are intolerant to.

I've learned so much about what my body dislike.

[PinkBanann in reply to Lapinblanc88]

Okay thank you I'll have a look in to it as im also suffering digestive issues. They seem to go hand in hand for me x

[Littlepeax]

After following this diet (thanks to you) I am happy to report that my endo pain with my period is almost pain free this month! I usually have the worst period pains in the world but this month after being on this diet for 4 weeks I have noticed a massive difference so thank you x