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  • in reply to: New Member, Long Time sufferer. #9447
    Goutful
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    Thanks Zip.  I am feeling better today.  took a little colch last night at bedtime and again this morning.   was able to go for a short bike ride yesterday.  plan on doing the same today.    its certainly nice to be able to walk again and ride a bike.   my goal is to prevent these attacks from reoccurring to the best of my ability.      I would like to get back on the Allopurinol 300 mg. as soon as is wise to do so.   I am just not sure when that is.   My Doc apparently thinks I should wait until the end of august.   Not sure why.  I am pretty convinced that my most recent episode was not caused by allopurinol.

    Anyway I am taking things 1 day at a time right now, but I want to move forward with more effectively managing my gout.  I have been dealing with this for 5 yrs and am desparate for some help and relief.     

    in reply to: New Member, Long Time sufferer. #9428
    Goutful
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    Thanks, thats kind of what I was thinking.   1 day of allopurinol probably didnt cause the attack, but hiking and banging my feet and ankles around probably did trigger a gout attack.   I am finally feeling better now after over a week of hell.   I am taking a colchiciene daily per instructions from my gp.   He said i could take indo or colch.   After  several wks gout free we are going to initiate the allopurinol again.

    in reply to: New Member, Long Time sufferer. #9397
    Goutful
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    Thanks are you a doctor or something?    i have the Allopurinol ready to go, since i had just taken it for one day when I had a large gout attack.  starting on big toe and radiating pain and swelling in both feet, unable to walk etc.  was wondering if one dose of allopurinol could cause such a reaction by waking up the old urates and replanting them? 

    I've been on small amounts of colch and an indo for the past 7 .  Today i am still having some symptoms in my toes and just took 1 indo. my doc told me i should take colch or indo for 3 weeks and then reconsider allo.    i am not sure what is going to change?   i strongly suspect that my most recent attack was not related to the allo at all.     i had just sustained a minor foot injury during physical exercise and i believe that the minor injury brought on the influx of synovial fluid to my ankle which precipitated the gout attack.  

    I had heard that allo can make a gout attack worse or cause new flare ups.    i would obviously like to not have flare ups if I can avoid them.    I was thinking I should let things setle down for a few days, just for my sanity if nothing else.  : )  But if the ultimate issue is allo and diet then i would like to get on with it.

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