Marathon - Relapse 3 weeks later

Hi Everyone
New user here! I am currently reading the Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis ebook and also have the hard copy on order.
We have recently been diagnosed and have been following the low fat / best bet diet since january this year. We removed all milk, eat really low fat, lots of fish, salad, vegetables etc, thought we were getting along really well. Also, fish oil supplementation, vitamin d (5000iu) a day and we are also doing our best to eat an anti inflamattory diet (dr weil).
A little history, it is my wife, not me that has MS, I am just doing everything I can to help including diet etc as I do most the cooking and shopping. Over the last few years there have been a few incidences of strange medical problems, loss of vision in one eye, balance problems and then this christmas a total numbness from the chest down that lasted for a few months. We suspected MS and finally got a dx in May but we started researchign and following a low fat diet in January with no milk or dairy. We also cut out gluten and legumes that I know is not so popular here but we originally started out on the best bet path.
The numbness did eventually go but my wife has had a tingling in her hands ever since that comes and goes but we were living with that. We were also training for a marathon and completed that (our first) on the 23rd of May. The symptoms would be worse whilst running but were generally tollerable.
This weekend, my wife has developed a new symptom and is having real problems with her one leg. It is weak and she can't lift it properly. We are really disheartened as we felt we were living a very clean diet and I guess I am just looking for some help and support from those more experienced than ourselves.
Questions:
Do you think the Marathon caused this? I read in the overcoming ms book that relapses happen two to four weeks after an event (cold etc) and the marathon was three weeks ago. My wife also got a cold beginning of last week which she still has now.
We have gone to the doctors and whilst we avoided steroids last time, we are likely going to have a dose this time. I am trying to persuade my wife to get the oral ones but the GP and neurologist have previously only offered the IV which is much more upsetting and inconvenient.
Few other details:
We have just done an ELISA test and found some strong alergies to egg whites (45, wheat (45), chocolate (150), milk (140) and yeast, giladin, peas etc. We had cut out some of those things (milk and wheat gave her bloating so we figured) and are now going to cut them out entirely and aim to further clean up the diet and eat no saturated fat at all (aside from what is in healthy oils and fish), we had cut out all meat bar chicken breast but will likely reduce that to once a week as well.
I also know that the swank diet can take 18 months and up to three years to really kick in so really, I guess I am just looking for some confirmation we are doing the right thing + does anyone think the marathon could have caused this relapse? Usually they have been more than a year apart and now, with six months of clean dieting we have one within six months so that is a real kick in the teeth.
Hope everyone is well and would really love to hear some of the success stories from the veterans of this lifestyle, especially regarding early relapses etc.
All the best
Marcus
New user here! I am currently reading the Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis ebook and also have the hard copy on order.
We have recently been diagnosed and have been following the low fat / best bet diet since january this year. We removed all milk, eat really low fat, lots of fish, salad, vegetables etc, thought we were getting along really well. Also, fish oil supplementation, vitamin d (5000iu) a day and we are also doing our best to eat an anti inflamattory diet (dr weil).
A little history, it is my wife, not me that has MS, I am just doing everything I can to help including diet etc as I do most the cooking and shopping. Over the last few years there have been a few incidences of strange medical problems, loss of vision in one eye, balance problems and then this christmas a total numbness from the chest down that lasted for a few months. We suspected MS and finally got a dx in May but we started researchign and following a low fat diet in January with no milk or dairy. We also cut out gluten and legumes that I know is not so popular here but we originally started out on the best bet path.
The numbness did eventually go but my wife has had a tingling in her hands ever since that comes and goes but we were living with that. We were also training for a marathon and completed that (our first) on the 23rd of May. The symptoms would be worse whilst running but were generally tollerable.
This weekend, my wife has developed a new symptom and is having real problems with her one leg. It is weak and she can't lift it properly. We are really disheartened as we felt we were living a very clean diet and I guess I am just looking for some help and support from those more experienced than ourselves.
Questions:
Do you think the Marathon caused this? I read in the overcoming ms book that relapses happen two to four weeks after an event (cold etc) and the marathon was three weeks ago. My wife also got a cold beginning of last week which she still has now.
We have gone to the doctors and whilst we avoided steroids last time, we are likely going to have a dose this time. I am trying to persuade my wife to get the oral ones but the GP and neurologist have previously only offered the IV which is much more upsetting and inconvenient.
Few other details:
We have just done an ELISA test and found some strong alergies to egg whites (45, wheat (45), chocolate (150), milk (140) and yeast, giladin, peas etc. We had cut out some of those things (milk and wheat gave her bloating so we figured) and are now going to cut them out entirely and aim to further clean up the diet and eat no saturated fat at all (aside from what is in healthy oils and fish), we had cut out all meat bar chicken breast but will likely reduce that to once a week as well.
I also know that the swank diet can take 18 months and up to three years to really kick in so really, I guess I am just looking for some confirmation we are doing the right thing + does anyone think the marathon could have caused this relapse? Usually they have been more than a year apart and now, with six months of clean dieting we have one within six months so that is a real kick in the teeth.
Hope everyone is well and would really love to hear some of the success stories from the veterans of this lifestyle, especially regarding early relapses etc.
All the best
Marcus