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Thank you to all of you for the input and encouragement. I just lost quite a bit of confidence in my health provider (she's a nurse practitioner; I haven't been able to see my new doctor yet at all, and the soonest appointment I could make is in 8 weeks).
She had several other blood tests run (good idea it seems), and the only flags on the results are HDL too low, LDL too high and triglycerides WAY too high: 560. So, I got a message that she had put in a prescription for me to pick up for Niacin. It took me less than 5 minutes to find several sources on the internet clearly warning that Niacin raises Uric acid levels and is not recommended in doses over 50mg per day for anyone with a history of gout. My prescription is for 500 mg/day! The fact that my one appointment with her was primarily to seek long term management of my gout seems to me to elevate the Niacin prescription from mere carelessness to absurdity.
Do any of you think I'm overreacting? Could I have possibly stumbled onto a cluster of bad information about Niacin?
