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*resurrects ancient thread*

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So, it's been a couple of years. ?I've been lurking around the site without posting but thought it might now be a good idea to provide an update.

After my initial, painful attack, I have had, over the course of 2 years, a series of less intense attacks, ranging in severity from a stiff toe to pain enough to make me walk with a limp. ?Over this time, I have tried all sorts of things to try and find a trigger ? I have tried cutting out alcohol for spells (and at one point had an attack having not touched alcohol for about a month), I didn't eat a lot of pork and beef anyway, so that doesn't seem to be a trigger. ?Seafood and me have never gotten on, so it's not that. ?I have seen one trigger in exercise, where if I've overdone it at the gym a couple of times, within a couple of days I have an attack of some sort, but I've also had attacks when I've neglected gym work for a couple of weeks. ?I have now come to the conclusion I should have done after my 3rd or 4th attack ? I'm going to have to bite the bullet and start taking allopurinol or something similar. ?I just wanted to put my experiences out there for others who may be debating with themselves whether or not to persevere with self managing the uric acid or going for the allopurinol ? I've spent far too long over the past 2 years worrying about whether or not eating or drinking something was going to cause an attack. ?Enough is enough.

Now comes what could be the hard part ? convincing my GP to prescribe me AlloP?

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