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Subject: Allopurinol….. the rest of the story.
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You all may recall that I was somewhat “skeeerd” about beginning the Allopurinol. I had decided to wait until all signs of my 3-4 wek gout-bout were gone.In the meantime, my doctor told me not to take the the Allo and instead he wanted me to start taking what turned out to be, Colchicine. OK – fine. He told me that it was now available as a generic, knowing my $$$ situation. It turned out that even the Generic was $174 for 30 pills. No way Doc! Can’t do it.
Anyway, and this is for all who are reading this, he suggested that I contact Canada Drugs – so I did. They offer the Colchicine for $79 for (90) pills! (you do the math). So, I am going to sign up. Perhaps I am the only one who didn’t know about this – maybe not. If you call them, please mention my name (Dennis Roucek) and I will get some kind of referral credit, which will help me out too.
One other thing. On June 1st my Uric Acid tested out at 6.6 mg. On june 12th, I retested at 5.0 mg. This was after basically two-weeks of slamming water and taking ground Flax Seed. Things are looking up, but I still have residual pain in my thumb joints. I am still going to begin taking the Colchicine and then transition to the Allo to start knocking down the crytals that exist (your thoughts Keith?).
I hope this information helps someone else and any feedback would be more than welcome – thank you!
Dennis
[Received at GoutPal?s Gout Helpdesk Sun, 21 Jun at 10:37 PM]
Subject: Generic Drug Update
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Hello Keith,In my earlier post, I referenced a generic drug that would determine if my attacks were really Gout, or Pseudo-gout. Here is the correct name of the drug I was supposed to get, but couldn’t due to $$$. It’s called Colchine.
Don’t know if this is short for something else or not, but that’s what the doctor wrote down for me.
Thank you,
Dennis
[Received at GoutPal’s Gout Helpdesk Thu, 18 Jun at 2:29 PM]
Subject: Well wishes….
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It is nice to know so many folks can relate to the gout battle I am fighting. Although I am (almost) over my recent 4-week gout-bout, there is still some residual pain in my tumb joints and big toes. Therefore, I am holding off on beginning the Allopurinal at 100 mg until I can spend some “normal” time again painfree.My doctor told me my Uric Acid at 6.6 was not too high and suggested that I may have “Pseudo-gout”? or Rumatoid Arthritis. A follow-up test for the Arthritis was normal, so he gave me a prescription for Cochin? Not the correct name, but it was a drug that was generic – then not generic – and now generic again. It cost $174 (generic) for 30 day supply. Too rich for my blood, so I had to pass. It was supposed to determine if I have gout or pseuto-gout.
The Allopurinol I can handle at $10 for 90 day supply, so I will begin that as stated, shortly. Any thoughts on this shared information?
Thank you!
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Subject: Doctor says…….
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I just had my Uric Acid checked and it is at 6.6 mg/dl. Also just barely getting over a gout attack. Is this a good time to begin taking Allopurinol? Doctor says do it and that it should not cause another attack.Any recommendations from the group?
Thank you!
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