Like everything else gout is, I imagine, an individual thing - my local cherry juice supplier ($15/L) told me that people come to visit their orchards from all over the world and follow the cherry season (seems extreme but this is what she told me) theirs is ordinary cherry juice and it cured my patient. I love to eat the Polish bottled sour cherries we get here, perhaps this stops me having this problem. Lemon in water doesn't make anything worse for us either as far as I can see.
Did you use chemical free water and was it an organic lemon? I use both of these for this drink. Also can you advise me I have been buying US seedless grapes for my husband who loves grapes, they come with a warning that there might be residual sulphates on the grapes - although I wash them thoroughly I wondered about GM qualities of US produce? Thanks Lena Jane ----- Original Message ----- From: Lena Guyot To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 2:26 PM Subject: Re: CS>Gout flare up Hi Jane, FWIW, I'd been routinely taking pure water with a squeeze of lemon, when I suddenly had a gout flare-up, so I'm not sure that its alkalizing effects had much benefit on the condition. (also fairly routinely use Alka-seltzer Gold whenever I'm herxing from killing Lyme) Tart cherry backed the gout symptoms off very quickly. I used Knudsens's tart cherry concentrate, diluted. Then, when traveling made things harder to get and store, I used tart cherry capsules and haven't had any trouble since. I even occasionally eat things containing purines, but sparingly.(but then, I'd never had gout symptoms until this year.) Be well, Léna On Oct 11, 2012, at 11:14 PM, Jane MacRoss wrote: What a challenge! My (nursing) patient with gout (since she was on Lasix (Frusemide) I considered it to be chronic dehydration) but I bought her 6 litres of cherry juice and on 30mL twice a day within a week her gout had gone, she denied ever having it - refused to take the cherry juice further, since she didn't need it, and then said it hadn't worked since the pain came back - I managed to get her to continue the regime once more but after a repeat of that rationale I gave up as she asked me not to come again! It is a matter of persistence and coping with the over 90 mentality!! Apart from cherry juice I would like to see what impact a litre of pure water with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice every morning before breakfast might have on your condition. Allopurinol is not a nice drug. Jane ----- Original Message ----- From: Ross Craig To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 12:33 PM Subject: Re: CS>Gout flare up i have had gout for thirty years...fought it with everything i could research...but in the end, the only thing that for sure prevents more attacks is allopurinol. lagoon ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 2:23 PM Subject: CS>Gout flare up I am in the middle of a gout flare up concentrated in my knee. Could not walk or even lift my leg. First flare up in 15 years. I made 3 gallons of apple juice and it was turning hard. I stopped drinking my magnesium/seltzer and drank apple juice. Two days of this and gout flared. ER prescribed Colcrys which really helped. I was controlling gout by taking B6 and magnesium. Hard to believe that a gout flare up was so close. Last flare up was caused by drinking wine on sale when I was winter camping near Los Angeles. Had to drive towing my trailer in LA traffic with using only one leg. I think the latest flare up was not caused by hard cider but neglecting my daily magnesium drink. Brickey If you suspect gout, try to avoid foods with purines, like sardines, shrimp, smoked oysters, etc. That's what brought mine on. Be well, Léna No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2677 / Virus Database: 2591/5822 - Release Date: 10/10/12 No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2441/5324 - Release Date: 10/11/12 No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2441/5324 - Release Date: 10/11/12
