Rather annoyingly I have had a flare up on the weekend. I thought it was going away on Monday after starting on Borax again, but then when I did some squat exercises in the early evening I enraged it almost instantly and since then its not been the greatest. I knew I was in trouble from the 1st squat as it didn't appear some muscles were working properly and I felt weakened. Last 2 nights I've been waking up 10 times a night never comfortable and when I turn it hurts. As a result I don't sleep very deep. Everything feels wound up tight.

I'm thinking of taking a dyclofenac at lunch today before my exercises tonight and knock it back a bit. Its hard work putting my socks and shoes on at the moment. Tonight I'm planning on doing my exercises and then eat quite a lot of fried Potato with my roast chicken afterwards! I'm not so sure this isn't just a normal flare up after being off dyclofenac for nearly 3 weeks. I used to get variations in flares when totally starch free as well.

However, I did drink a beer on the weekend (which I don't normally but it was offered already open and I didn't want to disappoint) and I did eat a fair amount of basmati brown rice (I normally eat white basmati). And then I did also eat a small desert my wife had made (using almond flour) for guests which contained baking powder. Ha...bit of a silly weekend perhaps.

Anyhow, I find once inflammation gets to a certain level I need a pill or 3 over the next few days to get it under control again.

Onto Borax....I've resumed my 1/8 teaspoon per day and no headaches or nausea this week. I might just ease back on the borax and get back to a more normal dose next week (around 12mg boron per day I think). It doesn't seem to help reduce flares.

Time to order some soil based probiotics.

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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