Posted by: Pattie Ramsey | May 10, 2009

Symptoms of Sojgren’s and coping with them

Gluten free diet won’t cure the syndromes but it will help on the reducing  the symptoms.

My symptoms are very pronounced when I have eaten items that have gluten in them.   Gluten does promote inflammation and when inflammation is there that is when the symptoms thrive.

Doing a gluten free diet you will have better days ahead it will reduce the flare ups it has with me.   If you take supplements with oils in them that will help also, like omega’s 3, 6, and 9. I also intake 4 oz of Aloe Vera juice every morning. Flax seed oils are excellent also for the heart and inflammation in the joints it also helps with the lubrication of the dry skin mouth and eyes.  Also I had plugs inserted in my tear ducks to hold the fluid in the eye, it feels like my eyes are swimming.

I eat rice cause that is natural there isn’t anything in it that doesn’t  hurt me.  I stay away from whole wheat products. I eat products with flax seed like breads and cereals and rice breads.

I eat eggs for the protein try to eat farm fresh eggs cause of what they feed chickens in chicken farms, there is gluten in the feed. We will have chickens here shortly and they will be open range fed.

Not much red meat cause that causes bad cholesterol and also promotes inflammation. I try and eat the white meats fish chicken and some pork, they call that the other white meat.

I’m not suppose to eat dairy products because it also does something to promote inflammation, but I can’t give up milk I drink it.

Also “night shade” vegetables like tomatoes there is a list of those look them up on google. Those promote lots of issues too, especially for those who have rheumatoid arthritis.

LOL, most of the time I try not to eat things with Gluten in them but I get so fed up with not being able to eat anything I desire so I slip up most of the time and eat those good tasting foods. I pay for it later. I don’t have celiac just secondary sojgren’s, it effects mostly my joints and I get heavy fatigue, sometimes my stomach acts up when I have had too much I can tell.   Celiac is like a sister to Sojgren’s in relation. That is what I have learned so that is why I feel that following a gluten free diet will be good also for Sojgren’s.

Autoimmune diseases are the same except for the symptoms, sometimes my blood work comes out that I have Lupus, and other times it doesn’t. I just have to be careful not to trigger flare-ups like with the food I eat. Or if there is a lot going in my life not to get overly exhausted.

I know just the other day I had a frozen coffee mix at a restaurant what they mixed with the coffee had gluten in it cause it made me feel I had a hangover, that is what I feel like when I eat products with gluten, if I don’t eat something every 4 hours I become confused and shaky,  just a couple of other symptoms I get.

This is from answering emails that people have sent me I thought it would be useful to post on here.


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  1. I, too, have Sjogren’s Syndrome. I haven’t tried the Gluten free diet, so thanks for that info.

  2. hi i was diagnosed with sjogrens syndrome abut 6 years ago im going to try your gluten free diet and see if i have any improvement thanks for that kind regards wendy x


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