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Gout: Anyone have any non Rx rememdies that work?
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Posted on 10/21/2024 12:47:09 PM PDT by TangledUpInBlue

Anyone suffer from gout that is not, shall I say, "chronic" but triggered from either alcohol or specific foods?

If so, do you take a supplement you find works well even when eating those foods?

Cherry supps? Curious to see if there is a consensus here.

Thanks!

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: gout; tartcherries; tartcherryjuice; treatment; vanity
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To: TangledUpInBlue
Gouch! (Made by Redd) works well for my wife.
You can look up the ingredients on their website, but I think it’s tart cherries, quercetin, and other natural ingredients.
21 posted on 10/21/2024 12:57:56 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Try Grapefruit Juice.

I avoid “rich” cheeses such as Gouda.

I noticed I had a lot fewer flare ups when I stopped taking Prilosec.


22 posted on 10/21/2024 12:58:03 PM PDT by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: pburgh01

I don’t seem to have any issue with red meat - but I suppose we don’t eat it more than once per week. A good steak on the weekend and the occasional burger. But still, no issues there.


23 posted on 10/21/2024 12:58:30 PM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Baking Soda is one remedy but if you’re taking heart medication, there’s information out there about not taking two specific heart medications at the same time but instead taking them several hours apart since they affect pH of blood.


24 posted on 10/21/2024 12:59:14 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Dutch Boy

@raven6

This one has Chanca Pieda in it. Hmmmmm


25 posted on 10/21/2024 1:02:24 PM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Strait up currant juice (cherry juice), 8 oz a day for a week. Apple cider works but you need half a gallon or more a day for a week.


26 posted on 10/21/2024 1:03:14 PM PDT by GreatRoad ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act' )
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To: pburgh01
I take Allopurinol.

Me, too. I haven't had a gout attack since I started taking it 15 years ago.

27 posted on 10/21/2024 1:03:45 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Re-elect Donald Trump - AGAIN)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Tart Cherry is the go to, from what I understand. My brother takes it for his.


28 posted on 10/21/2024 1:05:59 PM PDT by mykroar ("It's Not the Nature of the Evidence; It's the Seriousness of the Charge." - El Rushbo)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
Pineapple juice for immediate relief. There is no cure but with a flareup I drink a 6 oz can of it and usually the red hot vice grips release my toe before I finish the can. If I have eaten something like fish or drink a beer the resulting flareups are apt to come back an hour or two after I get rid of one. I just get another can. Eating fresh, dried or canned pineapple works. I take a couple of bags of dried pineapple with me on long airplane trips. The only medical treatment seems to be a Colchisine scrip and it is expensive and you can quell a flareup with it but it takes an hour or more or you can take one every day and it will reduce the frequency. I tried I for a year and someone handed me a can of pineapple juice and that works faster and better.
29 posted on 10/21/2024 1:07:57 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe vol)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I’ve found that drinking lots of water helps, and that eating salty food makes me thirsty.

Conventional wisdom says that the liver oxidizes purine proteins into uric acid, and that reducing purine intake helps control gout. It does help control my gout. However, drinking lots of water helps my kidneys eliminate the uric acid.


30 posted on 10/21/2024 1:08:01 PM PDT by nagant
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Don’t drink too much and cut down on red meat.


31 posted on 10/21/2024 1:08:47 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Real cherry juice.

About 8 bucks a qt. I believe.

I have Knudson brand.


32 posted on 10/21/2024 1:09:19 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: pburgh01

Beef is a definite no-no, for me, at least.


33 posted on 10/21/2024 1:09:30 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe vil)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I haven’t failed a uric acid test in over a year.

My doctor set me up with a uric acid test every 6 months for me to experiment. After several failed attempts, I found that stuff. I’ve had several random tests since and all where good.


34 posted on 10/21/2024 1:09:40 PM PDT by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: Raven6

How are the gout attacks now?


35 posted on 10/21/2024 1:10:04 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I had 2 major flares about 1 year apart within the past couple years. I started taking supplements similar to what was posted above in reply #16 (from Amazon). I haven’t had a flare since I stared taking them. I just ran a half marathon, so the training regimen and some weight loss probably didn’t hurt either.

I was worried the pounding on my feet and ankles might cause a flare (I still drink beer and wine and eat some of the bad stuff...all in relative moderation). But still no flares (fingers crossed)...it is definitely in my genes.


36 posted on 10/21/2024 1:11:03 PM PDT by Chief Inspector Clouseau
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To: FLT-bird

Cherries and citrus bergamot capsule reduce the frequency but it is a long time before you can tell. I tell everyone keep a 6 oz can of pineapple juice close and drain it as soon as you get a flareup. It is immediate.


37 posted on 10/21/2024 1:12:17 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe !!vii)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Bump for later


38 posted on 10/21/2024 1:13:11 PM PDT by power2 (JMJ)
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To: pburgh01

Pineapple juice. You get immediate relief.


39 posted on 10/21/2024 1:13:24 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe !!vii)
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To: pburgh01

I take Allopurinol. Went from 1 terrible flareup a month to one mild one every 6 months. Don’t believe the vegan cultists that it’s red meat.
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I’m not a vegan, but eating non-fish meat worsens my gout. Uric acid is the end product of cellular Krebs cycle oxidation, so there is no way to oxidize uric acid into anything more oxidize-able by cells, or more processable by kidneys.


40 posted on 10/21/2024 1:14:05 PM PDT by nagant
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