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Hey Bilal, I'm familiar with your problem. Spring pollen lets the CH beast try to open a big ol can of whupass on me If I let it. Fortunately with over 10 years experience with the anti-inflammatory regimen and lots of data from fellow CHers in the same boat, I've found loading vitamin D3 at 50,000 IU/day to 100,000 IU/day with the Bio-Tech D3-50 50,000 IU water soluble vitamin D3 for three to five days and doubling my maintenance dose from 50,000 IU/week to 100,000 IU/week with the D3-50s for at least a month keeps the CH beast away. Since the pandemic started, I've also titrated the Quercetin and Turmeric (Curcumin) doses from 1.5 grams/day up to 3 grams/day and it clearly helps. I also make sure I take 50 mg/day zinc picolinate and at least 8 grams/day vitamin C. If you've had a recent lab assay for your 25(OH)D3 serum concentration, whatever it is, it's below the CH pain free threshold. I've kept my 25(OH)D3 up around 150 ng/mL for the last two years and it's kept me CH pain free. I've been working with one CHer who found his CH pain free threshold was 161 ng/mL. Anything less than that and his CH beast started jumping ugly. Take care and please keep us posted. V/R, Batch

...sorry you need to be back....but we all appreciate check ins to let us all know how family is, motivation to maintain vigilance, and reports on methods of dealing... ....could very well be that chill (ill?) winds a trigger.....could be the weather changes that bring those winds. noticed one time that nearly every time i was driving to the O2 shop i was wearing sunglasses. initially thought it was the bright light causing hits or the cycle....turned out, it was the RAPID change in barometric pressure (Pacific NW) that brought that sunshine. Lo pressure or Hi pressure no problem.....it was the rapid change. You can stay out of the wind, but ya can't hide from the barometer....sigh.... ....you may need to up your D3 for a short time and/or add in an old school anti histamine like benadryl for a bit....tis springtime, where the weather is unpredictable and the pollen isn't.....

All, This is off topic and was brought up by someone on a thread from 2 months ago. For no purpose accept to restart what he successfully has restarted. Let's move on please. The discussion of virus naming isn't productive, nor appropriate on drebie's thread. J

This is not in fact today's "accepted naming convention." It's what people once did (often inaccurately--the "Spanish Flu," for example, didn't originate in Spain, and "German measles" didn't originate in Germany) or still choose to do. Today's "accepted naming convention," pursuant to WHO guidelines issued in 2015, is to avoid using place names. This convention is widely accepted. For example, when the US under Trump's leadership tried to refer to the current coronavirus with a Chinese reference in an official G7 communication, the other G7 countries refused to go along. At least some of your history here is wrong or misleading: "German measles" (rubella) was first identified in the early 1800s and it was so named because it was identified by a German scientist, not because it originated in Germany. The Zika virus was named in 1948 (not by the WHO) indeed because it was identified in the Zika region, but not necessarily because that was where it originated. No one really knows where the "Russian flu" originated, only that the first identified outbreak was in a city in the Russian empire. Whatever the accuracy or inaccuracy of your historical assertions here, it is not a medical or epidemiological protocol today to use place names. When you call it the "Wuhan virus," you are not following contemporary naming protocol, as much as you might be following a historical practice. Things change. (And it is not "rewriting history" to use different terms for the epidemics you refer to, such as the "1918-1920 influenza pandemic.")