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zip2play said:
Mark,
You asked:
Will Allopurinal lower my UA levels enough that I can toss back a few cold beers on the weekend?
I answered:
Yes it will!
Sorry, I meant to quote the guy who told me to wake up,it's later than you think. I am used to forums with the quote tab at the bottom.
zip2play said:
Will Allopurinal lower my UA levels enough that I can toss back a few cold beers on the weekend?
Yes. it will.
What do you mean?
zip2play said:
Post edited 2:10 pm – May 30, 2010 by zip2play
Does anyone think my toe and ankle could have been gout attacks after surgery?
ABSOLUTELY, Mark.
You went to a BUNION DOCTOR, who would see a bunion as the cause of pain for a man just run over by a BUS.
He was wrong, you had no “bunion” but rather a gouty tophus.
Digging out the monosodium urate is all well and good EVENTUALLY but it has repercussions. Your foot doctor cut into walled off deposits (that's how the body deals with excess urate in gouties) freeing up a LOT of urate that needs to find someplace else to hide, like ankles, inteps, fingers and knees.
Alas, while it is floating around it is likely to casue no end of attacks.
I think for you, a wise maneuver would be to take allopurinol to stop more formation AND probenecid to increase the amount dumped by the kidneys. The probenecid wouold likely be temporary until all attacks stopped but the allopurinol would be forever, the normal routine treatment for gout.
How high is your serum uric acid? That number is the most important one in gout and its treatment.
I am going back to my regulay doctor to get my levels checked and am going to develop a plan which I am sure will include Allopurinal.
