Good theory L33. And I just picked up some ACV for the first time in my life. I will keep your flare remedy in mind.
You speak of alkalizing. I listened to a
YouTube talk by Dr. Richard Horowitz on Lyme Disease and he said that he tells his patients to take an anti-acid and something else when they are having a Herx reaction. He explained how the alkalizing in combination with the something else instantly eliminates the Herx.
The Herx isn't the body's reaction to the parts of the microbes that appear upon their death but instead it is the body's reaction to the cytokine storm just like in septic shock. Perhaps the inflammation in AS is sometimes triggered by cytokines.
And only about a week ago I started to get a drilling pain in my thoracic spine along with a gut ache. I found it hard to bear and did an instinctive thing of drinking water for my gut. It instantly eliminated the pain in my gut and back at the same time.
Eighteen months ago I went to a doctor about getting rid of gut infections that I tested positive for and he refused to. He looked at my chart and said that I should see a spinal surgeon about the pinched nerves in my back that were reported on an MRI. He said that those pinched nerves may be creating my IBS and opening the opportunity for infection.
In a different post I outlined the feedback nature of how our gut triggers spinal inflammation, but I also described how our spinal inflammation can create gut dysbiosis.
Similarly, I listened to a doctor that was an expert on Fibromyalgia and he said that via spinal surgery 30% of the cases of FM were resolved in which he also saw that spinal chord irritation.
The hip bone is connected to the sphenoid sinus!!!
