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You can upload your gout pictures via the gout forum. Please not that whilst anyone can post topics to the gout forum, only registered, logged in members can upload pictures. Registration is free, and adds many other useful features, so you may as well register. See the gout health forum guidelines for more information.

Most of your pictures will be relevant to the gout symptoms forum, but please note that I am interested in seeing any gout related pictures, so please feel free to send all your gout pictures.

How about pictures that reflect your gout treatment, or even your gout diet. Ours is a multi-national, multi-cultural gout forum, so what might seem mundane to you can be extremely interesting and valuable to other people.

For more information, or if you have questions, about uploading your pictures, please discuss in the gout pictures forum.

Back in May,

zip2play said:

My research has shown one antihypertensive regimen that lowers uric acid.  I will repeat it here.

It involves the use of two antihypertensive drugs, furosemide and losartan, (Lasix and Cozaar) but they must be taken in a particular way: first take the Lasix (which causes brisk diuresis) and then several hours later, take the Cozaar which causes uric acid elimination. Dosage of both drugs is titrated to get reasonable blood pressure control. Needless to say, people with NORMAL BP should not use this regimen.

The study confirming this regimen is small but rather convincing, but studies showing the uricosuric effect of losartan are all over the net. It;s the ONLY antihypertensive with this capability but used alone its effect is not large.

The name of the study is “Effects of the uricosuric action by losartan on the patients taking furosemide”, and the results show clearly in the chart above.

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Uric acid is a body compound that can help or hinder many different diseases and conditions. Many know that low uric acid is associated with Alzheimer’s Disease. New research indicates uric acid might form part of an Alzheimer cure.

Do you suffer from Polycystic Kidney Disease and gout? Why not share your experience with the world, or read the views of other PKD patients

This answers the short gout question, “food list high in potassium.”

I have produced a table that lists foods high in potassium. Most gout sufferers should not worry about potassium. If you eat a healthy gout diet (see my Gout Diet Section), you will get adequate amounts of potassium.

The right amount of potassium is important for good health, but you must not eat too much. You must Read the rest of this entry »

Sudo Gout, Pseudo Gout, or Pseudogout?

I was discussing gout with a friend yesterday, when we got onto the topic of pseudo gout. I have written about this many times before, but never known whether I should call it psuedo gout or pseudogout.

My friend mentioned that he had searched the Internet for information about pseudo gout after his doctor told him he might be suffering from it, but couldn’t find any. I expressed surprise, and mentioned that I had written about it on my gout information site and my gout discussion site, and both these are regularly found by search engines. I sat at his computer, and showed my pseudo gout postings here on Gout Pal Interactive. Then the penny dropped – with the complexities of our language, and the fact that he had never seen the term written down, he was looking for sudo gout.

If you are struggling to find information about this gout like condition, try psuedogout or pseudo gout (not sudo gout or sudogout)

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Why do gout sufferers need to know about chocolate?
Because my news page just told me that chocolate can lower blood pressure, and for nearly half of all gout patients that is good news.

I told you about high blood pressure (hypertension) and gout sufferers in my second newsletter ^(*). I am one of the 49% of gout sufferers who also have high blood pressure.

Journal of the American Medical Association has recently reported about research into Effects of Low Habitual Cocoa Intake on Blood Pressure. They found that eating 6.3g of dark chocolate for 18 weeks:
reduced average blood pressure
did not increase body weight, fatty acids or glucose.
reduced the number of participants with hypertension from 86 to 68 in every hundred

Blood pressure of participants who ate white chocolate did not change.

The authors conclude that:

small amounts of polyphenol-rich dark chocolate as part of a usual diet efficiently reduced BP (blood pressure)

So that 100g bar of 70% choccy that I just ate should have done me some good?

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^(*)If you have not read about hypertension in gout sufferers, you should subscribe to my newsletter. You will get a link to the back issues when you do. Look for the second issue.

So if you’ve got gout, you just worry about purines, right? Wrong! You need to do something to stop a heart attack first.

Aspirin can now treat gout. Scientists said low dose aspirin could be harmful to gout for many years. A new study reveals that aspirin has no effect on uric acid.