"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> "Sky" > wrote in message
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>> On 3/27/2011 3:14 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>>> > wrote in message
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>>>> I eat pizza about twice a year. Two days ago, I got one of Dominos
>>>> large pizzas and ate the whole thing in two days. I was craving it
>>>> like it was drugs or something.
>>>>
>>>> Well, this morning I've started paying for it the second time. I woke
>>>> with the left ankle hurting so much I can hardly support myself on it.
>>>> I haven't had a Gout attack in years.
>>>>
>>>> With my diabetes, I shouldn't be eating pizza anyway and surely not
>>>> the amount I let myself eat this time.
>>>>
>>>> Shame on me!
>>>>
>>>> It is curious that pizza caused it this time. That's a first for me.
>>>> Perhaps it was the quantity. I still can't believe I ate that much. I
>>>> just sort of went nuts I guess.
>>>>
>>>> Temporary insanity! That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
>>>>
>>>> Owwwwww, my damn ankle hurts like hell!
>>>
>>> Get yourself a big bottle of 100% pure cherry juice. Not juice from
>>> concentrate. Just pure cherry juice. Drink several glasse sa day.
>>> Your
>>> gout should improve quickly. I used it to cure my toe goiut some years
>>> ago
>>> and it was a miracle cure.
>>
>> Spouse has had gout for years :/ Thankfully, his is usually controlled
>> by his daily dose of allopurinol. Unfortunately, Spouse did try the
>> cherry juice trick a few times, but it did not work for him. Whenever he
>> gets a 'twinge' that indicates a gout attack is imminent, he nips it in
>> the but with some colchicine, which does work wonders. However, the
>> potential side effects of the colchicine are not very nice at all.
>> Luckily, he rarely gets attacks nowadays - knock on wood!
>
> You're telling a diabetic to drink cherry juice? He may as well just
> shoot himself. The death will be quicker and much less painful.

Actually it was me who recommended it. I am diabetic and I can drink cherry
juice in measured amounts. Sure it makes my BG go up but not so much as you
think. The raw juice is not the sweetened kind like you normally see. It's
actually kind of hard to find and it can be quite tart sometimes even sour.
TJs sells it. I suspect the failure of those who have tried it was they
used the 10% "juice" like Oceanspray. I like to mix it with diet 7-Up.
It's not like you live on the stuff and if he's on insulin he can control
the BG. Certainly does less damage than a 16 inch pizza. I went bonkers
and ordered a pizza a while back and suffered a spike of 425. It was days
before I felt better. Don't have that problem with cherry juice.

> I do take tart cherry pills. Not sure if they would have the same effect
> as the juice. I take them because they contain antioxidants.

The juice eliminated my gout in 3 days. It's not the antioxidants. Cherry
juice has the ability to dissolve uric acid crystals which is what gout is.
Not sure what the active component is.

Paul