Re: Solubility of uric acid

From: Ron Jones (ron_at_ronjones.org.uk)
Date: 06/27/04 

Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 20:56:30 +0100

Mark Tarka wrote:
> Aghhhhhh! Gout, bout. Aghhhhhh!
>
> Anyone with personal experience lowering
> the concentration of uric acid stored in
> places within the body and monosodium
> urate (MSU, hmmmmmmm) in the blood/serum?
>
> I know about avoiding purine-rich foods
> and eating black cherries from Internet
> pages (replete with conflicting opinions).
>
> And there are medications that'll do the
> job of reducing the body burden of these
> chemicals.
>
> What I'm looking for are anecdotal tales by
> real people who turned on their thinker and
> worked out their own cure (regular doses of
> sodium bicarbonate, high doses of Vit. C in
> the ascorbate form, other blood pH lowering
> possibilities, dietary preferences).
>
> By the way, the ER doc prescribed Colchicine,
> 0.6 mg. tablets, twice a day. This was after
> I'd had a bad hand for ten days. Both the PDR
> and Merck Manual indicate that you've got to
> hit the problem aggressively with colchicine,
> two tabs at first, then one every hour until
> relief, GI tract revolts, or you've taken 10
> tabs. Did something like that, not exactly.
> Had significant relief in 36 hours. Switched
> to ibuprofen after that. It's effect may be
> wearing off, but then, I'm only taking something
> like 1600 mg per 24-H, where something like
> 3800 mg a day is max. BTW, after starting
> colchicine, the left hand was attacked, but
> without the swelling that once had affected
> the right (mostly gone now, four days after
> starting treatment; I was going the wrong way
> on my own, using aspirin -- bad move).
>

Just curious, what was wrong with aspirin? It is an anti-inflammetry as
well. FWIW if ibuprofen upsets your stomach, there is an better alternative
(but only from your doctor, and maybe only in Europe - I know there was a
problem originally with US reg) called Ketoprofen. 

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Ron Jones
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