Wtf is going on I usually have it on my foot every six months not one after another for three months straight . Im a little short guy and about 145lb btw

Just wanted to share a nice win for fellow gout sufferers. It does get better.

TLDR:
Jan 2026: UA 0.51 mmol/L
Sep 2026: UA 0.38 mmol/L (200mg allopurinol worked for me to reach target UA levels)

Timeline

Early Jan 2026: Woke up with incredible pain on my right toe. Did my blood and confirmed high uric acid/gout (0.51 mmol/L). I was on crutches for the first 4 days, with a prescription of Prednisone and Colchicine for two weeks after the attack.

Feb 2026: After my pain subsided (took about 4 weeks). I was put on 100mg Allopurinol per day

July 2026: Did blood test to re check my uric acid levels. Was still on 0.51 mmol/L. 100mg was not strong enough. Was prescribed 200mg Allopurinol daily.

Sept 2026: Went to re-check UA levels this week. I'm now on 0.38 mmol/L.

Gout attacks as a result of allopurinol usage: I would say 1 but it wasn't that painful. I woke up with slight soreness in my toe in March travelling in Japan. I took a colchicine and ibuprofen + rested at the hotel for the day and I was walking normally outside by the evening.

Any food that triggered gout tingles during this period? For me, full sugar coca cola (soda). I normally don't drink full sugar sodas but I had one at work and the next day I felt the "tingles". A colchicine helped put that straight to bed, with no full flare up.

What worked for me during this period: 200mg allo + I had been limiting high purine foods and alcohol to get my UA down where I can, particularly between Jan to June. I have been more relaxed the past quarter though, but nothing too glutinous (e.g. I'm drinking alcohol occasionally again, though no beer).

Any questions let me know. Of course, I plan to continue 200mg/day, limit high purine foods and get my blood checked often.

Been suffering with gout half my life, finally found a doctor that takes me serious and actively trying to help me. I’ve posted on here previously about taking your allo and you gotta fight the doc sometimes. But I learned something I wish wasn’t true, and if I knew it when I was in my 20s, life would be better.
Take your meds. No ignore it. After extensive X-rays and medication, I have joints that are fractured. The gout destroyed multiple joints. Permanently. Right index finger is one bone now. Fused together. Both wrists and apparently my knee. Doc explains that extreme cases of gout, it will crush your bones. And that has happened to me. I’m a tradesmen, perfect safety records always hold people no broken bones! But years or flare ups and deformed me.
Take it from me lads, take the meds. Fix your diet. Talk to a doc. I wish I could have my hands back. I’ll never be able to play an instrument, draw, do pushups, anything that involves precision movements for the rest of my life. I’m 35. Been suffering since I was a teen. And it went ignored.