Experiment

Well, I have managed to make my gout return by taking hydrochlorothiazide, a diuretic, three days in a row, while not eating anything of significance to the cause.

That is as opposed to taking it perhaps a couple times a week, instead of daily as prescribed for blood pressure that has become controlled almost to excess.  That is, it’s become normal for me to take the three drugs about 2/3 of the time, effectively cutting the dose.  I’ve been registering blood pressures that are ideal at worst and border on needing to reduce dosages at best.

Anyway, apparently I need to continue restricting the hydrochlorothiazide until it can all be addressed.

1. After a gout attack last spring, I realized that gout is called “the disease of kings” because somebody with gout really, really wants to be carried on a litter.

   Posted by Joseph Hertzlinger  on  09/21  at  01:19 AM  from  Long Island, New York
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