Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
Hello;
I have been following this site for years, not always here reading things, but still working on my gout condition nevertheless. Using the UA testing kit, and the gout journal to record my results, I have had some highs and lows in my test results and spirit as well over the years. I have been trying to control my gout via my diet. Back in 2012, I was down below 6 all the time, and sometime after my uric acid level jumped to above 6, all the way to nearly 9!!! I was having slight gout attacks about every month, requiring Alieve for 2 – 3 days to calm things down. Recently, reading on the nutritional front, I remembered that back in 2012, when my uric acid level was low, I was eating my fruit deserts at least 2 hours after meals. Since October 2014 to now, I went back to this practice. Surprise, my uric acid level suddenly went down to nearly 6 in 5 weeks, from 8,8!!! Medical fact: eating fruit immediately after meals, causes fermentation in the stomach which turns fruit sugars into alcohol. Some people having never consume alcohol life during have been diagnosed with liver cirrhosis. This is an important factor to consider.
My uric acid level will likely fluctuate in the next few months because of uric acid crystals going back in solution. My general joints condition right now is excellent, and event some arthritis flareups have stopped for the last 3 months. I do think that along with the change in my desert intake, I have also reduced my sugar intake over the last 4 to 5 months. Together, those measures are giving me results.
Thank you for this forum to allow me to share my results, it is part of the satisfaction feeling!I?have both gout and psoriasis. ?My take on it now is that diet can help maintain low uric acid level and surely has a great influence on psoriasis flare ups. ?I've experience low gluten and eliminated animal milks which reduced my psoriasis a lot. ?I have been taking my u.a. Level on a regular basis, 12/48 {12 hours with no food and 48 hours with no alcohol}, always in the morning before bkt, at approx. Same hour, mid of the week or saturday. ?With this my u.a. Level has fluctuated mostly due to stress or being generaly tired from long weeks of work. ?Diet might impact the u.a. Level at that point, stress having been part of my personnality since young age, it sure has been contributory to my goutty condition. ?By slowing down telling myself I have to get my u.a. Down from several weeks of high levels, I can bring down from 450 to 350 in just one week with normal diet, nothing special, restaurant food included.
I have been taking my u.a. Level for three years now, and it has helped me a lot in understanding my situation. ?Uric acid level is the key for sure. It's difficult to accept uric acid levels because it is telling you what is going wrong if you are willing to listen to it. ?Most of the time, I tend to want to blaim other factors, but I always come to realize that my stress and general condition has to improve to change my situation around.
This is my own experience which I share?here since I have learn so much here over the years, and would like to give a little back if it can help anyone. ?Keith and everyone involved here have made a tremendous job with this site, it is very hard to do more. ?Hope my little blurp here is o.k.!
Regards?
Gilles
Great you guys, always good to brought back to reality… ?For some reason i keep being influenced by food impacting gout while it's some 15%!
Again thanks, I'll try to keep it in mind.
Stellato,D., Morrone, L.F., Di Giorgio, C., & Gesualdo, L., ?<Uric acid: a starring role in the intricate scenario of metabolic syndrome with cardio-renal damage?>, Intern Emerg Med, August 13, 2011.
Brymoro, A., Flisinki, M., Johnson, R.J., ?et al., <Low-fructose diet lowers blood pressure and inflammation in patients with chronic kidney disease>, Nephrol Dial Transplant, May 25, 2011.
Recent studies which seems to bring light on the subject. ?There seems to be a difference between fructose sources ie. Fresh fruits vs processed foods containing corn syrup. Should fructose from corn syrup be responsible for uric acid formation sheds a very important factor to consider, since the best home diet which would be free of corn syrup fructose, will be curtail by having restaurant food containing minute amounts of the substance???
?I'm submitting the information to the forum for your comments?
Thank you.
Thank you. I will make sure one way or another that he get's on an Allopurinol regime asap. The reality is, my Dad is not really able to take care of himself with this matter, and usually, he will let things go until he really cannot stand it anymore, and will ultimately burst in the doctor secretary's office to get immediate help. But one can always keep trying, and the pertinent information I get on this site is very helpful to talk with him about the disease and his condition in raport to the disease.
Thank you, I do understand Naproxen or other anti-inflammatory drugs do not lower uric acid crystals. I was responding to colchine drug as a way to positively diagnose gout, as mri or joint liquid analysis. My dad has had no official diagnose of gout. I was talking with him again today, and he has yet to get relief from his latest attack, and far from starting of Allopurino or alike products….
Because of the pertinent information I get here, I am able to explain to him what needs to be done, and the urgency to clear up this attack in order to start on Allo, asap!!!! It's been 7 weeks since the onset of the attack, and he is still strugling with the pains, flair ups to his knee. The age may not help, the doctors are not responsive at all to his condition, people around don't know much about the disease on and on…. I live 5 hours from him, so I don't have the opportunity to go see him as much as I would like.
I'll keep working on it, and again, thank you all of you for your help.
Gilles
Thank you trev, I will be working on this front. I don't think he has ever been prescribed Colchicine, only Naproxen. I know he was prescribed a medicine for reducing UA, but at this point I am not sure what it was. I will make sure to find out.
OK guys, I am going to work on this. It's a great help reading your post, and sure am greatful you are taking time to understand and offer your experience. It will go long way to help an old guys suffering from this….
Gilles, x-ray does NOT confirm gout.My dad lives in New Brunswick Canada, on the east coast. We are not using scan for determining gout here yet. When I first was diagnosed with gout, my family doctor got me to see an internist. He was not very helpful, since he sent me to see a dietician to lose 5 pounds!!!! The dietician did not know what to do with me. I decided to seach the internet for help, and I found this site. I found out about the UASURE test kit, and started monitoring my UA level. I lived two major gout attacks before I started monitoring to the point of using crutches for the one. On both attacks, I was X-rayed only, with a UA blood test.
With a UA level at 10 for my dad, it's pretty sure it's gout isn't it?
Great, I understand, and thank you for the great advise. I am wanting to be as helpful as possible, not bashing into his life and things. I will be as discreat as possible, and as I get more info, I will post here. Again, thank you very much for your help.
My fear is being cofirmed… He has been diagnosed with gout, an x-ray was done on his knee both with the ua level at the hospital back 3 weeks ago, along with the previous gout diagnose several years ago. Since the doctor was coming back from vacation, I hope this was just a pain reducing action, and he will get informed about how to treat my father. There is to be call from the doctor to my dad for follow-up, as per what my dad said. I am not sure how to communicate with the doctor, but should I be able to, I would like to have him know about this site, this would help a lot? Or do doctor refer to this site for information?
Thank you
