Good for you doing marathons!! Yes I agree we should. I can find many places that talk so much about the pain and symptoms but not food and exercise.

I am in half marathon training mode again and yes, the symptoms and flares intensify with that much exercise. I have to be careful and do my runs on Saturday (long runs) because I tend to sleep the day away on Sunday. I haven't started to create a trigger foods journal yet and am switching rheuma's next month because my current one doesn't treat me, the patient, just the symptoms, which he is awful at in itself. I'm still in blaring pain and he gives me pills that don't work.

We should keep this dialogue going.. I'm sure there's other answers out there.

I have looked into the yeast aspect, read lots about it. When I began to really notice a huge change in my body was right after I had a bad yeast infection I didn't know I had. I thought the things I was experiencing from it was just the way it was when going into hormonal changes, I lived with this infection a good year at least, it seemed to wreak havoc over my body. I had 3 or 4 different areas of my body affected. Course my doctor doesn't believe in the intestinal yeast infection, but its when all that occurred that I started having all my digestive issues. I got medicine for it when I realized I had a bad yeast infection and it cleared up least skin and vaginally,, but it takes nothing for me to start having issues again.I have had so many issues, I can't seem to determine what came first. I really try to stay away from all this "bad" stuff though, and I have tracked things, and there just is no rhyme or reason it seems. I thought I was feeling better, then my dad ended up in ICU on life support, i flew down to Reno for a week (there were so many things going wrong there he could have died ten times over) then not 15 hours after I got back my sister in law was in ER for complications from MS, we thought but found she has lung cancer that has aggressively spread to lymphnodes, brain and liver in three months. SO I spent a week in hospital with her, taking her to radiation and all. The first two months of this year we had my husbands store burn down, and then my sister had tumor the size of a lemon in her breast, I had just been to Reno a week before for this when my dad almost died. So this year so far has been pretty bad. As things began to settle down some in my life, the migraines have come back again with a vengence it seems. I hadn't had them for a couple weeks, where as the last year its been almost non stop at some level or another. So stress must definitely play a huge part, (I also got a cold sore as the migraines hit which has always been a sign of stress for me) So frustrating cause working out helps with the stress, but makes the issues worse. Seems a catch 22 most of the time.

I did a small research stint on Friday on yeast and fibro. There's some interesting concepts out there stemming from having too much yeast in the system from antibiotics, excess sickness, etc. Going to bring this up with my rheuma next month.