Mild symptoms due to gout? stiffness after allopurinol

I wonder if anyone can say that these symptoms are gout because although the doctor says they are, they are not typical by any means.

I spent a number of years with foot pain which happened when I got up. If I sat down for any length of time then I would get pain in one or both of my feet resembling plantar fasciitis. After a few minutes of walking the pain would go away.

Eventually my GP did a blood test, saw the amount of urate or urea in my blood and said "You have gout, I am putting you on allopurinol." (I don't have the blood test results myself). "Plus here are these ultra strong pain killers".

This was a few years ago.

I have not ever needed the pain killers - I never had an attack of pain clearly due to gout either before or after allopurinol. However, since starting on allopurinol the foot pain has gone away - so it seems likely that gout was the cause.

Instead however I am getting stiffness in almost all my joints. I find it very difficult to bend over enough to do my shoe laces up, for example. I can't sit on my heels to get down low enough. (I am approximately 50 in case that helps give you a picture)

This stiffness does not seem to be a common feature of gout that I have heard. I am worried it might be something else.

Plus Diet:

So being slightly overweight I am trying to cut down on food and avoid purine rich foods to help with the gout. I have read up but not made enough changes in my life. Thankfully I never drank much alcohol and so I stopped drinking beer - moving to a rare glass of cider. I do however eat Marmite toast most days and as a yeast extract that is 'high' in purine. How high, I do not know.

Is diet going to make much difference since I am already on Allopurinol? I have not noticed anything like an attack - but then I no longer eat the trigger foods most people describe.

Thanks all. Does this match up with anyone's experience or should I be doing something different?

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