Maybe/maybe not. Hard to tell. I'm not sure if its related or not, but the first/second day I had a bit of a flare up in the middle of my spine.... not the usual base of spine. The sort of pain that causes shortness of breath most exaggerated when you lie on your stomach and try breathing deeply which causes spasms. And that night when sleeping, breathing in caused sharp needles of pain to shoot out in all directions from the middle of back area. I wondered if it was possibly a Herxheimer reaction which they talk about as a possible side effect but I don't think so.

On that day I was also about 4 days into no NSAID and I also massively overate for lunch. I really over did lunch but it was one of those situations where I had a lot of food and I can't bring myself to throw any away. (Liver, Sausages, bacon, eggs, potatoes, onions and before that a green banana coconut cream smoothie with protein powder and blueberries). I really felt bad after that all day wasn't even hungry 5-6 hours later at dinner. Just massively overate after doing my workout. So I suspect that had more to to with it.

Since then I took another NSAID, it came right within about 12 - 16 hours, and I got away with 3 days without needing another NSAID. And now I'm a couple of days into no NSAID again, but after eating a small amount of cooled Basmati Rice last night for an experiment, I feel I might need another NSAID tonight as inflammation is on the rise at joints around base of spine. I had a fantastic sleep though!

Too many different things going on to know if any are making a difference. Nothing sticks out massively anyhow. Nothing to make me fear a massive reaction to anything though. I'm sold on Potato Starch that's for sure.

The Borax doesn't taste of anything the way its mixed up. For a normal dose, you mix 1 teaspoon of borax into 1 litre of clean water. That makes your concentrate. The dosage is then 1 teaspoon of the concentrate into water or with your meal (I put it in water and have with a meal). So there is hardly anything to taste it is so watered down. I'm having 3 teaspoons per day at the moment which should yield around 9mg of Boron (3 per teaspoon). I'm not doing the massive 100 mg dose to treat candida or anything. That can taste soapy alkaline I read.

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Diagnosed AS year 2000 age 26; First onset of major symptoms came with severe food poisoning leaving me in chronic pain hardly able to walk/sleep/sit - never been the same since; HLA-B27 positive; bouts of iritis; no biologics ever, controlling with NSAID's and diet but trying to get off NSAID's through various "biohacking" experimentations; Live in Auckland, New Zealand