re: Ever had gout?

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I thought we would've solved it by now.

Eat cherries, drink the cherry juice, eat more cherries

Drink arse-loads of water and take Goutrin pills, available over the counter at Amazon. Alcohol abuse is the primary cause of gout. Eat cherries and stop eating everything that tastes good. Indocin and alpurinol are last course results, but require a MD RX. You need to avoid foods with purines, which is basically everything good.

Colcrys is the brand name for Colchizine. It's a tiny pill taken to eliminate a gout attack "after" the onset of said attack. You take two pills the first day and then one pill each day for four days. If taken within the first day or so of an attack, it's effects are fast acting and you will have complete relief in relatively short order. If you wait until you've had the attack for a few days to take the pills, the attack will subside, but the effects will remain for a few days. Your foot, toe, etc. will feel as if you are healing from a severe bruise. If you are experiencing frequent gout attacks, Alpurinol is the way to go. Like stated earlier though, you'll have to take it once a day going forward indefinitely. It prevents gout attacks, but it definitely does not relieve an attack that has already started. Eating a proper diet for gout prevention is also very important to avoiding future attacks.

Very rich foods eaten days in a row with plenty of good drinks will be your enemy.

If you're going the diy route, try to counter act with rounds of baking soda water and apple cider vinegar. Also a Black Cherry vitamin daily.


Next time you got business entertaining, get the baked or grilled chicken dishes without drowning in buttery creamy sauces. Stick to dirty vodka martinis or scotch & water maybe.

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....like the man said it will knock it out quick but don't get too far from the toilet..last attack I had was a year ago, after a weekend of installing hard wood floors for my parents missd two days of work and shite till my arse was raw..

Colchicine will knock it out of you. As others have mentioned it may tear up your stomach.

I get an attack of it once or twice of year, usually when the seasons change. My grandfather had it as well and so does one of my cousins.

My Dr who is a foot and ankle specialist says because of the family history, I just inherited the lovely condition. I don't drink, I keep my diet fairly balanced. He said it doesn't matter in my case.

I did learn a while ago that Potassium helps neutralize uric acid. I try to eat Bananas regularly and it helps keeps the attacks from being so severe in my experience.

When I do get an attack I'll take colchicine for two or three days and eat about three bananas a day during the attack. It is usually over by the 3rd day if I caught it late. If I feel the attack coming on early I can usually stop it within 24 hours.

Alipurinol now for 8 years. Before I started that when I would have an attack GNC GRAPE SEED EXTRACT capsules worked miracles for ending an attack.

Started having flare ups myself about a year ago. A friend has had it since he was in his twenties. Spoke with rheumatologist and he advised that you can achieve perfection with exercise, stop drinking alcohol completely, and give up red meat and shellfish, but will still get flare ups. He advised starting the meds, but have to take every day for rest of life to be effective.

I heard about the cherry remedy. Started drinking juice from extract during flare ups, and it helped. Now I take cherry extract in capsule form twice a day, and flareups mostly eliminated. Acts as a preventative for me.

Has to be black cherry or tart cherry. Here is some info on why cherry works...

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