[vash]

you have the bumps under your skin? my rhuem doc said, once the bumps show (or leak out) it is time to go immediately to 600mg of allupurinol.

my liver cant handle 600. good luck.

oh, my doc said diet makes little diff in uric levels. he said he had a few patients avoid the meds. they went essentially vegetarian..really behaved at the dinner table. he said uric levels went from 9 to 8. with meds..he drops them easily to 4.

again good luck. oh, more. my doc also said plant products that are on the list with high purines..mushrooms, lentils, asparagus do not affect uric levels that much like meat does. maybe you are eating too much meat?