Sweet temptations Alecia. I suppose it's like giving up smoking, there needs to be a hugely negative association with a fag - say eating the contents of a large ash-tray for breakfast (or similar).
I connect iritis and pain to starch/gluten/grain as much as i can and no longer crave that stodge in the mouth feeling. An image of the pain is effective, but it is also easy to shove any mental image aside when food and smell and taste beckon.
Another approach may be to do penance...
For each and every flare caused by your wicked wanton wanderings on the slippery slopes of starch, there must be a fast, a cleanse and a re-committment with a period of strict NSD. If there is a long period without a cleanse, it is very easy to flare again (i find). Last weekend, my left knee blew up after i was eating too much wheaten product and as i had no prednisolone script handy it was 24 hours before i could medicate and that took 24 hours to really work. Luckily i got it before the debilitating drum tight, hot-painful knee locks that occur. Walking cleared the fluid away well - sitting in a car was worse than ineffective.
We are human , we repeat these cycles again and again as we test the boundaries.
No needle will go near my eye.
I have proved to myself and my guru optho that 65-70mg of oral Pred for two days will take away the eye inflam that one week of hourly pred drops did not touch...
Hope you can always catch it before it goes that far - make sure you always get med repeats and always have something strong on hand - kept in the fridge...
go well
