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Hi All, Firstly let me say how relieved i was to find this website. i have learned so much about this condition from here. So thanks GoutPal and co. – without this site I think I would still be stumbling around in the dark with a blindfold on wondering whats happening to me!. Have Gout 5 months now, im 40. started on allopurinol 2 weeks ago and at first it seemed to be working 100mg for first week took uric acid levels down to an average of 5 from an average of 8. next week on 200mg I was down to an average of 4. However 2 days ago towards the end of the 2nd week it has shot up to an average of 6.5 .. and whats worse Gouts back. I have just started on the 3rd week AP and dose raised to 300mg. -One thing to note I started 12hr  night shifts 4 days ago which seems to have concided with the rise in uric acid levels- working 12 or 13 hrs sitting at a desk could this somehow be the cause of the rise?. Im am using a kernal meter to measure my uric. I have taken 100+ readings over the last 4 weeks. both before AP when I was trying to lower uric levels with diet alone ..(no luck there!). and after. I have graphed the whole thing and will post later. Anyway guys what do you think – is my sudden rise in Uric acid levels while on AP unusual? One other thing I drank copious amounts of alcohol 3 or 4 days before the rise in Uric – could that be the cause even though there was a 4 day gap to the rise in uric? It was my gout free Dads 70th birthday party that led to the copiousness of the alcohol consumption

I Guess It could be the alcohol  – It was 2 or 3 days after the drinking that my ankle started to swell though and my uric acid levels were averiging 3.5 until the attack started in earnest  – 3 days after.

I have managed to graph my uric acid measurements over the last month before AP, and during my gradual introduction 100mg one week 200mg 2nd week and 300mg  -just started on that.

here are the results – It looked as if all was going to plan until  the last few days!

Hi Trev , Thanks for the reply, appreciate your insights, certainly am finding it difficult to cut back on the booze. On the plus side i have cut out meat and fish entirely, reduced cheese and egg intake.  I still have a few drinks at the weekend   -not normally as many as last weekend though!

Currently my UA levels are fluctuating between 5 and 6 – and im now on 300mg of AP. I was down to between 3 and 4 (holy grail of UA) for a few days the week before last- at the time I was on 200mg AP.  – im not really doing that much differently either  -although I got no exersize all through last week. Was working 12 hr nights.

-So back to long walks this week no alcohol and the 300mg AP – should hopefully get mu UA levels down again. At the mo im only having gouty twinges in my toes so not so bad.

Thanks again for the advice.