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Art (California) on 04/29/2026: 
Over a year ago, I made a decision to go longer on a vacation from borax just to see what would happen if I went longer than 3 or 4 months of no borax, and in my opinion, this was a mistake I won't be repeating again. I went about 7 to 8 months of no borax and my PA came back slowly and while I didn't let it get as bad as it was over 18 years ago, the symptoms were really bad and quite painful. Some of the areas of pain, I had forgotten how bad they were, but this experiment brought those memories flooding back.
I finally decided that I had had enough of the pain and started back on borax at the beginning of this year. Unlike the very first time I took borax when I started feeling relief within a month, this time it took about two months to barely begin to notice a slight improvement, which really worried me. I continued with the borax and it took about 4 months to get to where the pain clearly very reduced.
I am now at 5 months back on borax and I would say I am about 90% to 95% back to normal.
So the lesson for me from this little experiment is that I am going to stay on borax for the rest of my life if possible and no more borax vacations for me!
There were several times when it felt like I was never going to get back to being pain free again, because the first time, if I remember correctly, I was pain free by 3 months and this time I am almost pain free at 5 months.
So, at least for me, I don't want to risk screwing things up and allowing my PA to ever get a foothold again!
Why did I do this experiment? I guess I wanted to clarify if I was only in remission or actually cured from the PA and this experiment clearly answered that question for me. I am definitely in remission, not cured!
Art
