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Schoolboy error :wink: I have lots of cherry juice in*, and have now completed the colchicine course. Today the pain has subsided by 50%. I thought about going up to London but I haven't resolved the sciatica yet, so walking is slow and painful. Microsoft Teams is my friend. Hopefully the gout...

I have had a tough time lately and know what's behind it so a bit of emoting may be useful. Can't sleep properly and when I do it's catastrophe dreams. But the main cause is now resolved. All real shit rather than existential. Not exercising presently is a bugger, but sciatica and now the gout...

Cheers! Hope you can keep it under control. I feel like 40 years of debauchery has suddenly caught up with me in a few brutal hours.

Thanks for that. I can't wait to start the allopurinol. For the first time ever I have come back from my mate's house where we were watching Leicester, at half time, because of the agony. Foot up, on the recliner, now with the snooker on. :thumbsup: (and a glass of wine)

Yes, it's gout. And my systolic BP was 157. Going to have to bite the bullet and sort myself out. Got 3 days of colchicine to enjoy. The nurse practitioner saw right through me and has booked me in for a physical and mental MOT. I have decided to turn this all into game. I went a month without...

Cheers gents. I'm off to see the health care centre people shortly (having been told to go there by my GP surgery, who I was directed to after doing 111 online. I have a book, and iPOD and some water. What did Captain Oats say? :wink:

I shall be reading this thread carefully I suspect, having been stricken suddenly 2 days ago by swelling, pain, redness and heat exactly where the online pix show for gout in the joint between big toe and foot. I can't put weight on the foot and now have the stabbing pain at rest. I have printed...

Yep. Allo doesn't 'work' well on a first ever attack till the inflammation has been settled (colchicine is the go-to for that). As others have said, cut out any foods that trigger it. Allo famously has little risk of adverse effects, unless you are 'hypersensitive' in which case a rash is a...

Interesting. I looked up the ingredients and they are all classed under the umbrella of 'food additives'. If this works for you, great. I presume you have an issue with allopurinol, right? What's the problem exactly? Have you identified the foods that trigger it? Best wishes!

Yes. Good point. I should be a bit more circumspect. Just checked and yes allo neuropathy is a thing. Odd.

Yep. Be patient then let allo into your life :-)

You are at risk if you are genetically predisposed, or if you hav a mentalist diet (genes most important of the two). The enzyme xanthine oxidase (XO) makes the purines that form the crystals. If you make 'too much' XO then an inhibitor like allopurinol will normalize you. A mate of mine in this...

When I was diagnosed I was given colchicine to clear the inflammation before starting the allopurinol. This destroyed my guts. I won't go into gory detail. In the end, I didn't have gout. I had a broken bone in my foot. That's what happns when you have nurse 'practitioners' play acting at being...

And almost completely free of side effects.