Can I drink normal breakfast tea with gout
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not had gout for 20years, just having a severe bout, but I love a cup of char, can I still drink tea
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rustygecko dannyboydanny
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What treatment are you having? What is your blood urate level?
dannyboydanny rustygecko
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Having bloods done tomorrow, docs give me naproxen, it hasn't given me any relief yet, but I am only on my second tablet!!
rustygecko dannyboydanny
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Naproxen is Ibufren's big mate I believe. I think you need the naproxen but also colchesine which will slow the attack of the immune system, on your joints. (Im assuming there's no drug interaction between naproxen and colchesine). I find colchesine works in hours.
Sochima822 dannyboydanny
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Naproxen doesn't work very fast. They say that coffee helps with gout, because it lowers the uric acid in the blood, therefore, tea might be good. Cherry juice would help more. Are you taking anything for it?
rustygecko Sochima822
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Re coffee: I read the research paper on coffee. They found that high coffee drinkers did have reduced levels of gout. But they specifically said that the evidence doesn't support drinking coffee if you already have gout. I read it over a year ago but that's my memory.
rustygecko
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Sochima822 rustygecko
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Yes, you're right. Thanks for refreshing my memory.
rustygecko Sochima822
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But I'd say "hey, if coffee gets you up in the morning - have the coffee and a couple of glasses of water too."
rustygecko Sochima822
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Sochima822 rustygecko
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Well, like my doctor, he never gave me colchicine, just suggested an anti-inflammatory. Some doctors just see it as an arthritic flare up that doesn't happen very often while other doctors who know more about gout give colchicine.
sabre0492 Sochima822
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rustygecko sabre0492
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You are correcte, without doubt - if you have kidney issues - do not use colchesine. I also believe that even if you don't, never use more than 4 tabs per day, and never drink grapefruit juice if you're on it.
Sochima822 rustygecko
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sabre0492 dannyboydanny
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Like the others have mentioned, tea is fine. But, it is a dieretic, and dyhydration is gout's best friend. So, make sure you're getting plenty of water along with the tea.
Good luck, I know how painful it is...
Sochima822 sabre0492
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Ironically, coffee is also a diuretic yet, it's good for eliminating uric acid.