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I'm a 41 year old somewhat overweight male strict vegetarian (for 2+years). I am a natural medicine practitioner and have access to all dietary supplements inexpensively in addition to owning a Cold Laser Unit among other things. I say this because it has allowed me to try anything and everything people have suggested that didn;t involve drugs.? I had been getting gout attacks increasingly over the past few years. Last year I had 3 or 4 very severe attacks within a few months.
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At first, I thought I was getting relief from the black cherry juice. In the earliest episodes, the juice seemed to lessen the severity and duration. I have tried nearly everything people have recommended including the black bean broth. Nothing seemed to work.
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About a year ago, I told my doctor I wanted to go on a low dose of colchicine. As I have been slowly but steadily losing weight for the past 2 years, I felt that my gout was triggered by uric acid released from fat cells especially made worse by a history of high protein diets over the years (I am now a strict vegetarian). This theory was taken from John McDougall, MD (http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2006nl/june/gout.htm)
Other than avoiding sugar sodas, which seemed to trigger an attack before I started the colchicine, and not drinking a lot of beer, I have not had a single bad attack in about a year. I have the occasional stiffness in the big toe which either leads me to take an extra colchicine or take an indomethicine. The stiffness or tingle never lasts more than half a day.
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As I said ? I am in natural medicine. I detest taking pharmaceuticals. However, this drug has given me back my life. I have a cane I needed to use several times when I would get the attacks and could barely walk from my bedroom to the bathroom. That cane now has a layer of dust as it hasn't been touched in a year. So what I take is .5mg Colchicine every morning. I have not experienced any side effects from this. On the very rare occasion I take an? indomethicine, I get a little spacy but it's sort of fun so I don't complain about it 🙂
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I just wanted to let people here know what worked for me.
