Hi again list - more adventures in Rhemuy land, cottage cheese and the hots?????

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Hi everyone:

I havent written lately, just been reading, been feeling blech lately. Started

Enbrel one month ago, dropped prednisone, kept the MTX (6 pills a week), and

upped the pain patch to 50. I gotta say that the hot flares are not bothering

me so much. I only am getting inflammed in my ankles and back of neck and

fingers, the stiffness in the AM and when I am still remains (I cant shake that)

but I never know still how i am going to wake up. Everyday is a Rheumy

adventure. If I take off the pain patch a day later, I regret it (like today),

so I have learned no pain, put a smaller dose one on...

So last night I had a craving for cottage cheese (oh yeah, I lost my apetite

which is good for me, because i am too fat) so i got one. About an hour after

I ate it I got the worst hot flare i had in recent memory. I literally had to

take ice packs and place it all over my body to the point where I should have

been freezing, and I wasnt. I couldnt shake the flare until 2AM then I finally

went to sleep and then i kept waking up. Today my neck is killing me.

I hate the hot flares worse than anything, today I still feel the heat in my

body. It has been in the 90's weather-wise and the humidity is stiffling

also....

Could the cottage cheese be a trigger? I am laying off the nightshades a lot

more, I though THOSE were triggers?

Please advise, me being able to read here has been a godsend.

Thanks

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