Health Organization for Pudendal Education

I would like to start a thread on what foods to avoid. Jami has mentioned that she finds that citrus fruits seem to flare her pain, also wheat products. So far I have not made any link between the foods I eat and pain. Anyone else?

Because I have primarily neuropathic itch, it took me a long time to be diagnosed with neuropathy, and before that I sought care in the areas of Dermatology, Allergy, and Nutrition. I am not allergic to any foods, so the Nutritionist, whom I totally believe in retrospect to be an expensive quack, talked me into a bunch of non-allergic "sensitivity" tests. I came back with so many "sensitivities" that I had to go on what I like to call a "nothing diet"...seriously there was so little I could eat, I lived on strange nutrition shakes based on rice protein. I did this for 2 months with no change so I can tell you definitively that my symptoms are not food driven.
I do however have a suggestion about how some people might have food driven symptoms: Many of us have bladder and / or bowel issues as part of the PN, and anything that irritates the bladder or bowel would likely cause a generalized increase in pelvic muscle tension and hence a possible neuropathic flare. Acidic foods tend to irritate the bladder. I would assume foods that irritate the bowels vary greatly depending on whether one is more prone to IBS or to constipation, individual senstivities, etc.

I too have not identified any connections between food and PN.

HM, I agree with what you say about possible food driven symptoms. I am sensitive to wheat - I have tested negative for coeliac, but nevertheless I don't get on well with wheat, rye or barley. So I avoid eating these foods. If I do eat them, I have bowel problems and this flares the PN. So that's an indirect connection. But I have no direct connection between food and PN, none at all.