Sounds like my brother who woke up one day with all his joints swollen and painful. In the intervening decades since, doctors looked at half a dozen STDs and insect transmitted diseases… His problem can sometimes spread to other body parts, like eyeballs. I’m thinking it’s celiac disease, because my celiac symptoms all sprang up suddenly when I was bodybuilding and eating a ton of pasta all day. Some of my symptoms sprang up in mere months.
After 25 years of suffering, I cured myself of over a dozen health problems after going off gluten, and I see lots of these celiac symptoms in my family (father’s side). For instance, my cousin had new hip joints installed at around age forty.
Specific to joints, I spent twenty-five years trying to grow back the cartilage in my left knee after I tore it in high school, and had 90% removed by a surgeon. Well, after going gluten free, my knee recovered before I knew it, and so much cartilage grew back (at age 44) that I tore it again climbing and jumping around mountain boulders for two hours. It hurt to stand or do stairs, and you could hear the chunks clicking and clacking… Six months later I’m running for the first time in 10 years to train for Tough Mudder. That year I did Warrior Dash instead, but being downhill at full speed, after three such contests, I tore the cartilage again.
Rehabbing with bicycling and bodybuilding, it took 20 months before I could run again, and so trained for a half marathon. Well, having no ACL, and fatigue sets in at 6 miles, my knees spent 7 miles all loose and wobbly, and I tore up the cartilage in BOTH knees this time. Oh! And much worse. Sounds like wringing-out celery sticks with every step.
But, the point is, going off gluten has cured me of everything from a cat allergy, wicked hangovers and knee cartilage that won’t grow back. High blood pressure, too.
So, investigate ALL food allergies. Heck, an in-law on my mother’s side loves garlic, but discovered that was causing all her problems all her life. Sucks. I’m Italian and can no longer est pasta! That sucks, too. But, it’s better that I can binge drink without hangovers. Alcoholism, here I come!
