I keep forgetting to include this in other writings:
Sugar.
I have the most incredibly bad flares, even when I consume a relatively small amount of sugar.
But who ever heard of consuming a "relatively small amount of sugar"?!

And it's in almost everything that comes out of a grocery store. So primarily for me it's things with refined sugar. I have bread on some occasions. And I drink orange juice.

But I sometimes double think myself if I am a hypchondriac, because of the viciousness of a flare from some cherries Garcia, or fig newtons. ...... Actually I start out with 4 fig newtons, and always end up finishing the pack within the day.

When I was first diagnosed with PMR and flaring everyday or every other, and decided to by process of elimination to methodically pair my diet down to protein, greens, and
grains .... when I stopped sugar it was an immediately obvious reduction in the frequency of pains.
When my wife and I decided to empty everything in our pantry with sugar, .... It was absurd. Even the frozen pizza has sugar.
The poisoning of society by the advertising industry for alcohol, to tobacco, and sugar is another forum though!