Holiday times usually involve over eating, over stimulation of all kinds, and plenty of fat and sugar (or else what is over eating for!??...oh, chocolate and nuts of course!).

I long-ago learned that most of my flares were the result of an accumulation of stressors that finally tipped my immune system into overload and a flare.

And almost all of the liquor flavors in things we eat are truly not alcoholic in nature.

But staying up late, dealing with lots of people and some of them family!, traveling, and wanting to control outcomes, those are my stressors, for sure!

So I'm trying to stay as calm as possible, this Holiday.

And doing my best to minimize my immune response to my recent IVIG treatment.

I forgot to take my Medrol on Monday morning, and by late that night, I was in an autoimmune flare from the IVIG last Thursday.

We are always alert to what is going on, aren't we?

Happy New Year.

Hugs, Elaine