Your Blood Pressure Pill Might Be Behind Your Gout Your blood pressure is finally under control. Your doctor swapped your medication. Three months later, your foot blows up like a balloon and you are kicking yourself trying to figure out what went wrong. Here is the thing nobody told you. That new pill might be … Read more
It’s 3 AM. Your team just nailed the winning goal. You’re five beers deep, working through a bucket of fried chicken and your second helping of spicy crawfish. Life doesn’t get better than this. Six hours later, you wake up and your big toe feels like someone drove a nail into the joint. Sound familiar? … Read more
A 14-year-old ended up in a wheelchair from gout. The culprit? Four to five sodas daily. Learn how sugary drinks fuel uric acid and what young people can do about it.
Can Allopurinol Help Your Fatty Liver? What the Research Actually Shows A patient asked me something last week that I couldn’t answer off the top of my head. He has gout, takes allopurinol, and just found out he has fatty liver disease. Could one pill do double duty? I told him I’d look into it. … Read more
Last July, a guy in his early forties came to see me. Fit as hell—ran 10K every morning, watched what he ate, barely touched alcohol. But every summer, his foot would explode with gout. “I sweat so much,” he told me. “Thought I was flushing out all the bad stuff.” Sound familiar? Here’s what nobody … Read more
Here is something I hear all the time from readers: “My uric acid test came back normal. So why does my joint still feel like it is on fire?” If that sounds familiar, you are not losing your mind. Plenty of people with gout walk into their doctor is office with a lab report that … Read more