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I have been down similar pathway.

Ended up with no Allapurinol due to the side effects. Tried the diet approach but still had flares.

For the last 12 months With no flare ups I use a daily Celery extract capsule, with ASTAXANTHIN (strong anti-inflammatory action. I also use lemon juice in water 30 mins prior to meal.

Search around these and you will find a wealth of clinical and anecdotal evidence. My current blood test 0.36 mmol/L Uric Acid.

I also swim 500 metre 2x week. Important to have cardio/pulmonary exercise.

Hey,

I also get it in the heel, Achilles and top of foot, and around the ankle.

It can be very stubborn.

Get yourself celery seed extract, or blend celery sticks with water, drink loads.

Drink loads of nettle tea all day.

Cherry active juice

Practice Box Breathing.

2 days and you’ll be good.

Good luck!

If the allopurinol is not effective, there is a chance this is not gout, but "pseudo-gout" aka CPPD.  Search for it - and take it seriously.  It feels and acts a lot like gout but it is not directly caused by uric acid but by calcium pyrophosphate.  The bad news is there is no diet to prevent it and no specific drug to alleviate it.  I'm not even sure if there's a test that regular doctors can do to diagnose it - except that it's like gout but the gout treatments don't work.

I'm pretty sure I've had it a couple of times.

It may also be associated with high uric acid.  Have you cleaned up your diet, eliminated the purine foods?

Here's what the diagnostic differentiator is for me.  With regular gout the toe and foot can hurt right up to the 10 level, but I can still walk on it.  With pseudo-gout the pain is "only" around an 8 but it's in the bunch of joints at the top of the foot and I have to walk on crutches, you can't even begin to put weight on it without collapsing.  And I seems to afflict one joint, and then within an hour it moves to a different, nearby joint.  And when it's touched all the joints, then it finally clears!  I'm sure that's not really how it works, but it sure seems that way.

Wish I had better (or surer) news, but at least a likely diagnosis shines a little light on things.

I think I found a good way to help prevent gout attacks.

You see! My gout attacks many joints throughout my body and are quite horrid.

Anyway. I noticed at the store berri 's are supper cheap. So I bought a big bag of blueberries. About 3 days later my gouty joint pains started subsiding. So I upped to 2 cups of blueberries a day. So to test my theory I bought a bucket of KFC. Ate 3 pieces for 3 meals in a row. Normally a gout flareup would kick my butt about 4am. But no attack set it n.

Eureka! I can eat meat 3 meals a day. Yippie Skippy. I hope this info will help you folks. These meds seem to be a joke.

The best med is Uloric. But it raises enzymes in the liver so the doctor took it away from me with no further discussion. And noting has worked well since. Except the blueberries.

HI, they say Allopurinol is the best tablet for gout but you here of so many side effects on here from this tablet. Not only did Allopurinol give me several flare ups, i also had constant pain in my joints whenever i took this tablet and was as unbearable as the gout, and when i stopped taking Allopurinol the joint pain would stop. I now take Adenuric which suits much better and is controlling the gout flares. Keep well hydrated and eat a good balanced diet, no cooking your food in fats or oils. I can eat meat and drink alcohol since doing this and i have not had a flare in over 12 months which is good for me.