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Well, that'll show me for being such a show off.
Tested again today. I had purposefully had the 2 beers last night, plus a Thai chicken red curry, to see how that may affect things. Same time of day, early pm, before lunch. Result 7.5 mg/dl.
That's a real sickener. I thought the figures may be a up, but not by quite such a large amount. I had a plan in mind to experiment a little with the monitor, to see if periods of pure veggie would be lower; and whether a meal with chicken in it, for example, would add a bit to the result. Or to add a small amount of the potential triggers, such as beer.
Would the figures I've had be expected ? Is there really such a large variation based on one meal ?
Yeah, thanks – it is good news and I am hopeful. However, I recognise that this is early days yet and don't want to read too much into these figures.
Regarding diet, Trev, I have already made changes. I felt my diet was pretty good pre-attack. However, it was probably a bit high in certain purine rich foods, which I ate without regard. With hindsight, I probably ate too much protein generally – I could eat a fair bit, for example, after gym sessions. When things lingered for several weeks after the attack, I decided to get tougher on diet to see how much difference it made.
For a few weeks I ate only vegetarian. My wife is a good cook and also very interested in nutrional stuff, so I was lucky there. The new diet caused me almost zero grief. I was not a big red meat eater anyway, though ate quite a lot of chicken, fish, some seafood. Lunchtimes changed from tuna or ham sandwich to hummus, or salads or cheese. I sprinkle flax seeds (good for inflammation) on cereal in the morning and drink cherry juice ( I buy Cherry Good from Morrison's a UK supermarket) which is reasonably priced and really nice.
The last 2 or 3 weeks we have started to move a little back to original diet; we've eaten some fish, a little chicken, even venison sausages one night. However, we both agree (as my wife has been on the same diet) that a lot of the food we've been eating will remain in our diet – we enjoy it, we find it easy to digest and, to be honest, it can be really tasty. Although I'm not overweight I've also lost a few pounds.
I've also cut down on alcohol, though confess I haven't been teetotal.
Pre-attack I was probably in the low 20s (units); recently that been low teens. (I love wine and like to socialise). I've had almost no beer for weeks – until last night when I had 2 bottles of Singha beer with my thai meal. But as for our lovely Yorkshire real ales (Black Sheep, Yorkshire Terrier to name but 2) I have had none. Its a small price to pay; though I'm reminded of a quote I saw – was it Mark Twain ? 'I can resist everything, except temptation'.I decided to get the monitoring machine and it arrived yesterday. It arrived just as i was eating lunch, so decided my first test would be today.
I'm not taking allipurinol, so am in a slightly different place from you guys. However, much of what you say is familiar to me. I can go periods with no soreness, or tenderness now; but then it will start up again and maybe last a few hours. Sore knees, slightly sore foot where the attack was, slightly tingly elbows, even very slight in the hands. None of this is painful really, it just gets you thinking 'What's that ? Is it crystals dissolving ? Or are they forming ?'. So, I though I'll get the monitor and then I will have a much better idea.
To recap, my blood test result after the attack some weeks ago was 7.8 mg/dl, my second test showed 5.7 mg/dl, which I was delighted with. So, my first blood test with the monitor was…5.7mg/dl.
So, overall, I'm pleased. Of course, it would be even better if they were lower, but without allipurinol that would seem unlikely. I just hope I'm not in that range where crystals dissolve slightly when I'm a little under 6, but then start to form again when (as I'm sure they are at times) I'm a little over 6.
