My gout fix after 17 years

Thought I would share my story. Suffered with gout for 17 years since I was 28. Been on 300mg allopurinal and continue to so do .

Like so many others you realise reading article after article were all different and different things set off different people. You also begin to wonder how much stuff you will have to give up to before you get gout under control and you become common with the high purine foods as listed in most sites.

However upto september 2016 no matter what I have up or cut down on I was still prone to attacks and sometimes rapid reoccurring attacks 4-5 times in a few weeks.

I was heavy drinker of averaging 70 pints a week for 15 years. I ate a fair amount of red meat , shell fish and fatty fried foods.

As mentioned I cut down and in a lot of cases cut out entirely the high purine stuff but gout would still return.

Then i read an article in September 2016 and later listened to a lecture about Fructose and it's contributions to Increasing uric acid which contribute to gout.

This was The best article I had read and to this date I have never had a twinge of gout since .

I will not go into the article as you can easily find it on the web. But compared to most articles referring to red meat and alcohol this was the first one I had read at the time reffering to fructose and high sugar being a cause of gout .

Now I will not lie I was also partial to cakes , biscuits , chocolates, fizzy drinks, MacDonald and takeaways etc and frozen costco food. I have literally stopped all of this since I ready this article .

Based on my own evidence since then I continue to have red meat, alcohol and shell fish and as stated not a twinge . The bonus also was weight loss which was not my aim but won't knock it .

To be gout free for so long now is such a relieve and maybe this won't work for everyone but if this helps one person become gout free it's worth sharing

Cheers and good luck

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