Dr. Dorman discusses gout

[angelbe88]

Dealing with my first experience with gout and I can safely say it was caused by driking beer. I had cut out beer several years ago and recently started drinking it again. At night I would get charlie horse in my calf when I would drink beer and now my left big toe is inflammed and swolen. If you have gout stay away from beer!!

[niamatnadery]

CAN YOU STILL GET GOUT EVEN IF YOUR URIC ACID IS 3MG/DL

[niamatnadery]

DO YOU STILL GET GOUT EVEN IF YOU URIC ACID IS GOOD????

[sped2001]

Have gout? Keep your uric acid level below 6 mg/dL. Don't know what your uric acid level is? Find out. Check it often. Home uric acid test kits are affordable.

You can be symptom free for months or years, but if your UA is consistently above 6, increasingly severe attacks are inevitable.

If you're trying to control gout through diet alone, it's vital that you know your uric acid level. If you can't keep it below 6, take the damned pill.

[MrRedFredSaid]

I'd been a vegetarian for over eight years when I developed gout. Walking was my favorite form of excercise.

[80sHitz]

Gout really sucks. I've been a vegetarian since I was 14 (I'm now 31) and I'll get a gout attack every now and then on the ball of my right foot. I find that drinking lots of water and eating cherries and other fruits helps. Also, avoid eating beans, fish, oatmeal, dairy or beer :( Like I said - it sucks.

[danielgchan]

@80sHitz Avoid asparagus, mochi, sticky / glutenous rice, and mushrooms those are the worst triggers for my gout.

[Catherine8raw]

You mentioned you are vegetarian and got gout. Did you consume high beans, peas, peanuts, mushrooms, or dairy, specifically cheese, and do you drink beer? What did your diet consist off? Cereal/dairy? How much vegetables did you consume? How much fruit?? You may help me, and its interesting that your vegetarian!

[dangobango123]

stay away from vegetables!

[blackcladlizard]

I have gout but I'm a vegetarian. I don't get it. Why do I have gout? I was told that my uric acid levels were really low. Is there any help for a person who doesn't eat meat? I'm 25 years old.

[griscuta]

hi,

i am sorry for you. you need to avoid also beans and alcohol ( especially beer ) .You need to decrease inflammation.

[johnandersonii]

I'm not a doctor, nor can I make recommendations. However, I know that gout is caused by purines, not argenines. Soy protein, is one of the most of soluble forms of uric acid. I learned this from weight lifters who drink protein shakes, but have gout. The main reason for their gout stems from the high amount of soy protein in their rations. Our chemistry differs.

If you are prone to gout, you need to get off the supplemental weight formulas immediately.

[Catherine8raw]

You mention you have gout and your vegetarian, do you eat lots of beans, peas? Do you eat lots of peanuts, mushroom or cheese?

[marcobagut]

@Catherine8raw Cheese and dairy products in general have very low level of purine...Don't they? I have beentold that's ok

[Catherine8raw]

Well, people do not know the casue of gout. It is known the marginal amounts of purines in meat/fish/beans doesn't have a huge effect on your uric acid. IN FACT IT IS FUNGUS, CANDIDA that produces huge amounts of ucid acid as a by-product and this explains why people get sudden attacks after things that feed Candida, like cheese, beer, mushrooms, fruit. An anti candida diet find books on amazon. Also controling insulin levels with a low carb, low fruit, high fat, med protein diet helps.

[Catherine8raw]

The greatest foods containing uric acid is offal, and even if you get foods that are huge in purines, you'll find that you may get gout, despite doing everything right because the purines are not the cause. These foods have a marginal effect upon your uric acid load. Water/cherries may give relief but stopping the massive uric acid production in DONE IN A WAY THAT YOU CAN MANAGE... w ho can live healthily on just fruit and vegetables for ever, even no nuts/beans, its perthetic and rediculous!

[marcobagut]

@Catherine8raw Wow now I am really confused! Uric acid is not found in food, but is the waste material of synthesised purin...Or did I get this wrong? Also in meat and oily fish the content of purine is high and not marginal, unless I have misread the table. I got gout after following a strict diet on very low carbs and eating lots of salmon, mackerel, spinach and ...Red wine! MIght ot be related...

Did not really get your copnnection with candida... P.S. are pissed off for me asking?

[Catherine8raw]

Sorry, purines in foods convert to uric acid. There maybe some by products of uric acid in beer, I'm not sure. sorry, I meant that meat and oily sardines/mackerel/offal are all high in purines, but what I meant is that these foods have a marginal effect upon your uric acid production overall. Fruit raises uric acid alot! Candida albicans produces uric acid as a by-product, find info on internet. WHAT ELSE WERE YOU EATING? (red wine feeds candida and has alot of sugar/CARBS in.

[Catherine8raw]

You mentioned you are vegetarian and got gout. Did you consume high beans, peas, peanuts, mushrooms, or dairy, specifically cheese, and do you drink beer? What did your diet consist off? Cereal/dairy? How much vegetables did you consume? How much fruit?? You may help me, and its interesting that your vegetarian!

[darwinthunder]

Thank you

[LVB1770]

No nuts or tea? Why?

[iwonthisfight]

thank you....... very helpful

[amazingeddie]

Did you say gout results because the LIVER is unable to metabolize all the proteins its presented with?

Which medical school did you go to?

Do you do goat gland transplants as well?

[quasarzone]

Watch out for the pain killers Indomethacin and meloxicam. It can give you kidney damage.

[GeddyRules2112]

With all due respect, it's obvious this gentleman has never suffered from gout. "it (gout attack) can be relieved quickly by drinking lots of water." Yeah right. Also, cherries is an old wives tale. Allopurinal has insane side-effects, AND it triggers an attack when you first take it. I recommend Colchacine with Prednisone. Ask your doctor about these. I still get attacks, but those two do the trick for me every single time.

[silvermanalan]

None of his suggestions work, go on allopurinal

[dontuwid]

Thank you very much. God Bless You!

[pacini8400]

very helpful thanks

[bighammerman69]

santabarbaraguy on ebay sells something called uricinex. It DOES NOT work.

[whiskeymedic]

how do you spell that water enhancer? Is there a "homemade" way of producing high Ph water? I have only ever seen a very expensive ionizer that claims to do this.

[RealHimura]

I was wondering the same. Further information would be very helpful doctor.