Finally, an update.

I've been on this diet since January 29 and mostly, I've stuck with it.  Over this past weekend, we had a party and there was a lot of party food and I ate several things I shouldn't have.  I ate milk chocolate and sour cream and onion potato chips, both of which, I guess, contained enough dairy to upset my stomach.  I'm back on the goat's milk this morning.  I obviously don't react well to cow's milk dairy.  Fortunately, goat's milk is good for making gravy and creamy soups and white sauce so I can have some variety in my recipes.  I'm at the adding foods back in to see how I react phase and right now my diet is not as restricted as it was.  I'm going very slowly because I feel good and my symptoms are doing really well.

On my initial symptom survey, my symptoms have gone down, down, down.  I don't think I have a copy of the initial, just after 2 weeks, when my symptom score was 55.  Then a few weeks later, 38 and then a couple of months later, 20.   Objectively, I'm feeling much better and I am subjectively as well.  At the rheumatologist, in March, my C-reactive protein (which is an inflammation marker) was 4.8.  I asked what it had been the last time and was told that it was 7.  This is a clear indicator that I am on the right track here with this diet.  (Read about C-reactive protein and its links to heart disease and Alzheimer's disease here.)