Originally Posted by
BikerAcct 
I used to have bad gout. It would flare up regardless of what food, or what alcohol I did or didn't drink. About 15 years ago I was prescribed 300mg tabs of Allopurinol daily. Haven't had one gout attach since. It's a miracle drug.
My partner has this. Apparently his body produces the proteins, they don't come from what he eats of drinks. When he first got it he actually did stop drinking for a couple of months. Made no diffrence. He used to get it every couple of months and it was he'll. The only thing other than my antics that I ever saw make him cry.
Eventually we moved and he got a new doc. They ran the tests and found its his body doing it NOT diet or alcohol consumption, and he has allopurinol daily as well, so the crystals don't end up building up in his toe joints. Like Biker said. It made an amazing diffrence to my partners life.
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