On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 23:55:20 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 22:24:03 -0400, Metspitzer >
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>>The doctor warned that the Colcry makes you go to the bathroom, but
>>what I am wondering is that is the going to the bathroom a side effect
>>of the meds or is that going to the bathroom what stops the gout pain.
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>Side effect. It won't get rid of the pain. Watch your diet for what
>triggers gout for you.
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>http://www.rxlist.com/colcrys-side-e...rug-center.htm
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I read some of the side effects. My thinking was that gout is caused,
in my case, because of too much uric acid. Maybe going to the
bathroom is a fast way to lower it.

>some touches on diet here
>http://www.rxlist.com/gout_slideshow...ut/article.htm

Yeah, diet sucks. This bout was caused by steak and lobster. I
tried really hard to skip the lobster. Didn't happen.

It had been a really long while between bouts. I remember now why I
should skip the lobster.