RetaRX said:
I appreciate everyone’s input. I’m not trying to tell people to not take allo, I’m simply expressing my choice and reasoning.
My wording around long term damage wasn’t the best. I didn’t mean long term usage caused liver and kidney disease, I meant it can cause long term damage. Is it rare? Yes.
I’ve resigned to the fact that if all else fails I will get on Allo or equivalent.
For the time being I’ll give you updates whilst on this adventure
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Gout IS NOT an inflammation disease. 
Jfrick11 said:
Man.... I really hope you hear this because you're arguing against a point no one is making and your science experiment is literally causing you harm.
Everyone keeps trying to explain the same thing, and you keep coming back to inflammation.
IT IS a uric acid crystal disease that causes inflammation.
No question that diet and weight loss can certainly help lower uric acid, but for most.... ESPECIALLY someone with attacks every 6–8 weeks at age 45..... genetics play a HUGE role, and lifestyle changes alone will NEVER be enough to dissolve those crystals or to get uric acid low enough that more won't form.
You can spend years finding the world's best anti-inflammatory peptide, but if it doesn't lower uric acid enough, or dissolve the crystals (which peptides don't) .... you've treated the smoke while the fire keeps burning.
That's why people keep bringing up allopurinol (or other urate lowering therapies) . They're not saying, "Don't experiment." They're saying, "Don't confuse treating the inflammation with treating the disease.
Experiment all you want for symptom control. Just don't mistake symptom control for disease control which is what you're doing. Both can, and should exist together.
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So I don't know anything about gout and am asking out of curiosity cause I don't have a dog in this fight; if at 6 weeks, the uric acid comes back wrong, that means you still have gout even without flareups? And if that's a yes, does that mean you'll resign yourself to the allopurinol so it doesn't mess you up just without symptoms?
Thank you for your input. I’m hoping to trial different approaches towards reducing inflammation and uric acid before I commit to a forever medicine. Doesn’t mean others shouldn’t and that I won’t eventually. At this point I don’t want to.Jfrick11 said:
Man.... I really hope you hear this because you're arguing against a point no one is making and your science experiment is literally causing you harm.
Everyone keeps trying to explain the same thing, and you keep coming back to inflammation.
IT IS a uric acid crystal disease that causes inflammation.
No question that diet and weight loss can certainly help lower uric acid, but for most.... ESPECIALLY someone with attacks every 6–8 weeks at age 45..... genetics play a HUGE role, and lifestyle changes alone will NEVER be enough to dissolve those crystals or to get uric acid low enough that more won't form.
You can spend years finding the world's best anti-inflammatory peptide, but if it doesn't lower uric acid enough, or dissolve the crystals (which peptides don't) .... you've treated the smoke while the fire keeps burning.
That's why people keep bringing up allopurinol (or other urate lowering therapies) . They're not saying, "Don't experiment." They're saying, "Don't confuse treating the inflammation with treating the disease.
Experiment all you want for symptom control. Just don't mistake symptom control for disease control which is what you're doing. Both can, and should exist together.
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Yes, most likely.
Whole foods high in protein and almost zero alcohol. To be fair, the quality of foods has always been great however volume was probably my biggest problem but that’s under control now.
