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Quote from Joe2 on January 26, 2026, 4:51 amRough months. What were you eating before this episode. What did you adjust in diet? What are you eating now?
I was eating a lot!
breakfast at 10 am ,
3/4 lb of beef, 300 grams of beans, 1/2 cup rice, 80 grams flat bread, 1 rice cake, 12 oz apple sauce, 4 pickles
Dinner : 6 pm
3/4 lb of beef, 200 grams of beans, 1/2 cup of rice, 2 rice cakes,pickle
What I adjusted….
I stopped eating as much. I cut my meat to 1 lb a day, beans down to 400 grams a day for a bit.
then tried eating a spoonful of beans all day long. This really screwed me up. I felt like I had no control. I have been intermittent fasting for the last 10 plus years .
I cut out my oral night time dose of magnesium malate. I also stopped rubbing on magnesium chloride. I did notice after three days of no magnesium my dumping got worse. I wondered since I stopped intoxing magnesium if I started detoxing?
Right now I am eating this…
Breakfast at 9 am ,
1/2 lb of beef, 300 grams of beans, 1/4 cup rice, 80 grams flat bread, 1 rice cake, 12 oz apple sauce, 4 pickles
Dinner : 6 pm
1/2 lb of meat, 200 grams of beans, 1/4 cup of rice , 12 oz apple sauce, 2 rice cakes,pickle
if I go to work with my loving man , I add another dinner meal at lunch and eat breakfast at 7 am.
That is a lot of food.
Noteworthy on withdrawal of any supplement / drug / whatever:
Nice to know which way the substance pushes the gut flow. If it speeds up gut flow, withdrawing that substance will mean slower gut flow. Worth grokking especially while intaking more or less of other foods and substances that speed or slow gut flow. And for sure the worst combination is something that increases gas pressure while slowing down gut flow. Ouch to the gut. And probably rashes, boils, and joint problems. Intermittent fasting can sometimes give relief. Sometimes makes it worse, depending on which way variables are pushing.
Glad you are doing better. Curious to see ongoing what works.
Grokking? What is that?
April 2026
I keep waiting for my hip area to stop hurting so bad. Having new pains going from the connection point of tendons to the bone , between my hip to knee. After a little research on this new condition I find it’s called Enthesitis . Mid April, I do a 7 day water fast. At day 4.5 absolutely no hip pain and all my other joints feel awesome. Feeling really good on day seven. I endulged in a child serving of beef, beans and rice. The next day or two I bring back bread, pickles and apple sauce. The next day Iam in all the pain again. I asked my friend who has RA, what is her biggest trigger? She said sugar. I look at my pickles and see that they have 4 grams of sugar per 5 pickles. So I cut them out. After a week or so I notice a little improvement on the Enthesitis but not much on the sacroiliitis . Doing more research on Ankolysing Spondylitis, Enthesitis and arthritis I decide to cut the bread out. Almost immediately my dry heals got soft again. Few weeks go by and I am still having lots of sacroiliitis pain. The Enthesitis is far and few between flare ups. I would contribute that to cutting out the sugar in the pickles.🥒 . By now I am in a big dump. Back in January I noticed that I was not dumping as much, that was right after I started eating more kamut flat bread. I am going to say that the Lutein and zeazanathin were more than I could bear and stopped my dumping.
Another friend questioned my apple sauce and compared it to sugar in a different form. So what the heck, I stop the apple sauce. I did not notice much in the pain relief on my hip, but my teeth stopped hurting!
So now I am eating 1 lb of meat, 1 cup of rice, 400 grams of beans a day. The pain in my hip is really bad, so bad that I can barely lift my leg to walk, can’t put a sock on, live with an ice pack stuffed down the back of my trousers, constantly having to bend at the waist - hands on the floor at my feet to alleviate the pain. So back for more research. 🧐
I type in beans 🫘 and Ankolysing Spondylitis 🧑🦯➡️ . Up to this point everything I have read about beans said they were anti-inflammatory. Well, come to find out beans mixed with autoimmune person can be highly inflammatory! Guess what got axed from the diet next? Yep ~ BEANS!
It’s been 3 weeks since I cut out the beans. I can put socks on, I can walk up hill/ stairs without wanting to 😢 cry, I have been walking at least a mile a day.
My diet looks like this now….
Breakfast at around 10 am
3/4 lb of meat (weighed before its cooked)
1 cup of brown jasmine rice
3 rice cakes
Dinner at 6ish pm
3/4 lb of meat
1 cup of brown jasmine rice
3 rice cakes.
Occasionally up to 10 green grapes.
I try to rotate my meat between beef 🥩 , chicken 🐔 , turkey 🦃 , lamb 🐑 - all home grown. My calorie intake is about 3100 according to the calorie counter. I have dropped 6 lbs in the last three weeks. I don’t know how much was inflammation or how much was fat! As I start feeling better, I will be more active and will probably have to increase my food.
I have tried to research what beans are the least inflammatory and the answer was black, white and pinto beans. But that’s what I was eating, so it might be a while before I try them!
How I prepared my beans…
3 cups of beans,
Rinsed,
put in a dated half gallon lidded canning jar upside down in the fridge filled with water,
on day two or three,
remove from fridge and rinse,
fill with water and back in the fridge right side up.
Remove no sooner than day five. Can go up to day seven.
Rinse,
Put in instapot with about one inch of water over the top and salt.
Pressure cook at 44 minutes.
3 cups of dry beans fills a 9 cup glass dish perfectly.
They will last 5 days or so in the fridge.
Soaking the beans for five days will cut out about 90% of the gas and supposedly cut the lectins.
After a year and half of eating a lot of beans, I have had no signs of nickel dumping since I cut them out!
Hi @ginny
Glad it seems like you are able to narrow down the issues in your joints. I also suffer from joint and bone pain (the most), but never connected it to beans. I do eat some beans, but I do not go overboard with them.
You mentioned something about nickel dumping. What does that look like when it happens for you, and typically what causes it?
I do experience rather intense vA dumping when I go too low on vA intake. I am still super-early on my vA reduction journey.
My fiber/carb staple has become black eyed peas.
Raffinose is an oligosaccharide that causes gas and discomfort for many, including myself.
Soaking and then tossing the water helps as well as adding compounds that break down raffinose and others. Kombu helps to do that as well as certain microbes.
I soak my beans, pressure cook for 35 min, then add kombu and some of my microbe cultured yogurt and let them ferment for a day or 2. This breaks down the oligos, extends shelf life and provide prebiotic/probiotic/postbiotic benefits.
Since the yogurt has calcium in it, it also prevents nickel absorption.
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