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Ok, Keith, I know my original post was clumsy at best, so I appologize for that. I can’t blame you for not seeing the info in that post, and I apologize for being full of “Uric acid” in the comments I obliterated. Now, with that said, I was never told what my uric acid level or cholestorol level was, just that I needed to lower both. Well–I’ve been concentrating on uric acid, since I knew so much less about it. I have learned so much in the past 2 days–I’m brighter than a lot of Doctor’s on this topic. There I go rambling again. Let’s do this step by step again:
1) I don’t know my Uric acid levels, I’ll try to find out for you.
2) Is there some way I send you that spreadsheet that I have, it lists the links and what the links said about specific things. I put a 0 for stay away from, a 1 for not a problem if taken in moderation and blank for foods they didn’t even mention. I have a tally box at the top, but it’s not “weighted” so i thought about making a formula to take into account the percentage of hits/ misses/ and such, but yeah… i would spend more time on the spreadsheet than on actual research, so I’ve not done that yet.Maybe I should repost, in step by step how this thing went down:
1) I went to a chiropractor how told me I had Gout. I ignored him.
2) I got sick with the flu and went to a Medical Doctor… I was given medication for the flu… like that was going to help.
3) I thought the coughing caused me to pull a rib or a muscle, I went back to the Chiropractor.
4) Chiropractor told me that he thought it was my Gall Bladder and said I needed to go to a Medical Doctor right away. I ignored him again.
5) I got over the flu, and was feeling better. I went out for Mexican food. By the time I got home I was double over in pain. So much so that I thought about going to the Emergency Room.
6) I stopped ignoring the Chiropractor that night and looked up Gall Bladder isses, and found that Uric Acid CAN INDEED cause major problems with NOT ONLY the Gall Bladder, but once it moves to that organ, the next organ typically affected is the Pancrease–both of my Parents died painful deaths from malfunctioning pancrease, and they both had gout.
7) That scared me enough to go back to the Medical Doctor. I did… he confirmed ALL of the above. He (THE MEDICAL DOCTOR) told me to eat a low purine diet between now and when I get my Gall Bladder removed… I asked him what that meant; he told me to google it.
8) I’ve been googling it for several days now. Most sites say nuts are fine for low purine diets, but I know from experience that I can’t have nuts anymore.
Please, any advice given, please provide references… I’m not the type that will just take anybody’s advice. I have an elaborate spreadsheet started with the references listed, that actually documents the conflicting datum I’ve received and the sources thereof. I would like to continue this and see if I can actually balance out the conflicting dataum.Oh, and BTW, Keith, While researching low purine diets I have found several sites that suggest that Uric acid can affect “other organs” besides the joints, kidneys, gall bladder, and pancrease. Those “other organs” go unnamed, and I haven’t been back to either the Doctor or the Chiropractor to ask about this–and I’ll probably forget it when I do go back. I’ll be nervouse enough about what’s comming next… but yes, I do want referenced knowledge, not opinions. Thanks…
