[Eric in the Ozarks]

The curse of summer green beans...

[blam]

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New Lapita Find Re-dates Known Fiji Settlers (Jomon/Ainu)

[Slump Tester]

Wasn’t it a Mâori chieftan who uttered the famous words “My kingdom for some Indomethacin”?

[wildbill]

Too much rich foods and palm wine?

[SunkenCiv]

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[TN4Liberty]

“The predominance of this sort of diet may have favored the continued selection of high frequencies of hyperuricaemia and gout in these ancient explorers.”

That doesn't make sense to me. Isn't that like saying that selection would favor Eskimos who didn't tolerate seal and whale meat?

[toast]

I hate gout flare-ups. It’s so difficult to convey how much it hurts to someone that hasn’t had it. I’ve had broken bones that don’t hurt near as much. The only thing I know that hurts more is burns.

[An American in Turkiye]

I too suffer from this awful affliction. I would have a flareup at least 2X a year, for the past 8 years. However, I take an Allopurinol pill daily and haven’t had a flare up since. And that’s going on 3 years now. Most doctors now say that diet and (thank GOD) beer consumption has nothing to do with flareups. Once I started Allopurinol, I enjoy beer, asparagus, shellfish, etc, and have had no problems. But when I DID have flareups, the pain was excruciating. I couldn't’t sleep, my foot was hot and swelled up like a canned ham, and showering was horrible.

So ask your doc about it. BTW, Indocin and Colchine are poisons, which, although work to stop an outbreak, are much worse for you than allopurinol.