"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 11:11:59 +0100, "Ophelia"
> > wrote:
>
>> From the lists I have seen about what NOT to eat, there doesn't seem to
>> be
>> much left( What can he eat?
>
> That's how we feel too. Those pills are horrible on your liver &
> kidneys, so he's going the control by diet route until he simply can't
> do it anymore. So, what works is trial and error and a bad reaction
> is often not immediate, so then we have to work backward and analyze
> what was eaten in the last few days. Was it something new? Was it a
> lot more than usual of something that doesn't normally bother him when
> he eats it from time to time?
>
> The only good thing about this is when I cook for one problem, I'm
> automatically working on the others too. Most of the time, I
> concentrate on the diabetic issue - but I've completely cut out
> cooking shellfish at home because of gout and he doesn't want to go
> through the pain of narrowing it down to pinpoint which bother him and
> which don't. I don't even bother using products like fake crab, which
> is crab flavored chunks of fish, because it often uses real crab for
> the flavoring. So he is stuck tasting from my plate when we eat in
> restaurants and I order something from his no-no list.
>
I don't have gout but I do take tart cherry pills. I get them from Swanson
vitamins online. Not sure if they can be had in a brick and mortar store.
You could try a health food store. Or maybe Whole Foods has them. Same
benefit as drinking the juice.

I do suspect that one of my husband's triggers is seafood. I say this
because... I heard him mention to my mom how they get the freshest seafood
at work. They are right on the water in Seattle and they have a chef who
cooks for them. So when I heard this, I commented, "You haven't been eating
a lot of seafood at work, have you?" And when he asked why, I then
mentioned your husband. No names. Just said that someone I talk to online
said that seafood was a big trigger for her husband. He just sort of went
silent after that and I never did get the answer. But since that last
horrible bout of it where we thought he might need an operation to scrape
the bones clean, he has only had one little one. That one wasn't bad and he
was over it in a few days.