Reddit reviews The Anti-Inflammation Diet and Recipe Book: Protect Yourself and Your Family from Heart Disease, Arthritis, Diabetes, Allergies — and More

Try an elimination diet to see if you can isolate any food culprits. I haven't done a challenge phase (the one time I did a total elimination diet for 3 weeks was around the holidays, and I rushed back into more "normal" eating without challenging) but I notice I feel better the less dairy and wheat I get.

It's rare, but you could also be sensitive to nightshades like tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplant. With such severe digestion issues you might have sensitivities to more than one food.

Also Google "anti-inflammatory diet" along with "elimination diet." This was the anti-inflammatory diet and recipe book I checked out from the library when I found out I had lupus.

I'm slightly ashamed — intellectually, that is — that the elimination diet I followed was Alejandro Junger's trendy Clean. The book is full of a lot of hokum mixed in with some sound science on inflammation and stuff. However, the elimination diet is legit, and I've seen that most elimination diets take a similar format. Here's the food list in PDF form.

In fact, I follow the elimination diet about 85 percent of the time right now. When I lower that percentage I feel crappy. And give me some cheese or ice cream and blech!