A few years ago, the FDA threaten to put the cherry growers out of business because they had the nerve to tell people that eating cherries and drinking cherry juice can cure gout. They said only drugs can cure. You can buy concentrated cherry juice in the health food store. Yes, certain food can bring on the pain.

Lucille


On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 10:24:03 PM UTC-4, Metspitzer wrote:
> I have been prescribed Allopurinol for gout. Since I have had a liver
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> transplant, I only take 200mg of Allopurinol where, I am told, 300mg
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> is the standard amount. Anyway I am also prescribed Colcry to take
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> when the gout pain comes on. I am supposed to stop the Allopurinol
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> and take the Colcry. The instructions on the bottle say to take 1 and
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> then another one every hour (up to 5) until the pain is relieved. I
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> tried that last time I had a flare up and spend day and night in the
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> bathroom.
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> The doctor warned that the Colcry makes you go to the bathroom, but
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> what I am wondering is that is the going to the bathroom a side effect
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> of the meds or is that going to the bathroom what stops the gout pain.