Gout Pal Interactive

This one is to allopurinol takers everywhere.

Every week, I get messages from gout sufferers, and their carers, about problems with allopurinol. Most of these show that absolutely no thought has gone into the treatment.

If you bought a car with only two wheels, would you accept it and drive round in a shower of sparks?
If you called a plumber to fix your leak, would you be happy to pay a weeks wages for him to merely turn the water off?
Would you pay an optician who grabbed the nearest pair of specs and said, “Here, these will do,” without testing your eyes?

Why take allopurinol without checking that it is doing it’s job?
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Somebody asked me the other day, “Can I stop taking allopurinol?”
The short answer is, “Maybe.”
Not very useful, so read on for the long answer.

First of all understand how allopurinol works.

It is all to do with uric acid. Uric acid is a good thing, but, when you have too much, it can form uric acid crystals (commonly called urate). These crystals build up in and around your joints causing gout. The only way to get rid of them is Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been researching allopurinol recently to try and learn more about different aspects of this drug, and how best to use it for treating gout. There’s more to this than I thought, and I will summarize my findings in an article or two soon. Today I got side-tracked by all the different spellings of allopurinal.

Before you get too influenced by my list, please take a moment to think how you would spell this gout treatment. If I haven’t included the way you spell it, please let me know. I’m aiming for the most complete list of alopurinal spellings.

Why would I want to do this? I like to check out what other peoples gouty experiences are. I can do this by searching the Internet, but if people spell allopurinol differently from me, I may miss something interesting.

Allopurinol Spellings

The allopurinol drug should have an “ol” ending, but is commonly spelled allopurinal. The complete list of spellings I have found so far are:

• allopurinol
• allopurino
• alopurinal
• alopurenol
• alipurinol
• alipurinal
• allo
• allopurinl
• allipurinal

Add yours in the comment box below.