FEBUXOSTAT vs PREDNISONE

I thought I'd share my experience with Uloric here to my fellow gout sufferers. I love wine and craft beer and when I got diagnosed with Gout last year I couldn't believe it. I was 32 years old and I'm a healthy, fit guy. I tried all the tricks in the books like Cherry extract and nothing worked, ke

Just to add some context: I had my first attack about 8 years ago, have read lot of articles about gout, i had only gone 2 times to see a doctor, both times they told me the same thing, change your diet, exercise, and take colchicine and a NSAID like ibuprofen and you will be fine, and i was, so wha

I read some interesting information in a [research paper I posted here about a month ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/gout/comments/ho4wzu/research_on_commerciallyavailable_probiotics_and/), regarding some very successful results in treating hyperuricemia (high uric acid) in rats with a pre/probiotic m

So for the record, I'm 18, had left knee pain for 2 years but ignored it for an year altogether. Got it checked last year, turned out I had high uric acid levels in my blood. The ortho put me on a Febuxostat 80mg medication. After a bit of looking up online I asked him later if it's Gout. He says it

Those who managed to dissolve your tophi, how would you describe the whole process? How long did it take? Have you been on Allopurinol or Febuxostat? What level of uric acid have you maintained the whole time? Did it change its state from "firm" to "squishy" and then gradually disappeared? Any kind

Are there people here that suffer from gout and cannot take Allo and hence take an alternative like Uloric (febuxostat) I see in 2019 FDA needed the box to indicate increased risk of death. This has got me worried...

Edit: I deleted the vaping post a while ago because doctors kept judging me for it. I’ve kept screenshots of it, they were moderators telling me NOT to go to the ER making me feel stupid. At eosinophil of 5800. So yeah. I’m not lying about the post I just deleted it because of anxiety before the hos

31F, don’t want to give too much identifying info since there aren’t that many bat rehabilitators in the world. No relevant PMH. I’m normally the one answering questions about rabies, not asking them, but this is more than I know and more than my doctor knows, so I’m hoping this might happen to be s

Hi everyone, 6 year old male. 43 pounds. 45 inches tall. Caucasian. Canada. No allergies. Medical conditions: asthma. Medications: Advair BID, and Ventolin PRN. Was prescribed Prednisone for a possible asthma exacerbation, and recieved one 20mL dose on Wednesday morning then went to school, and caug

I can't embed images here, so I made a pdf with all text, pictures, and labs. [https://www.scribd.com/document/511582218/askdocs-pdf?secret\_password=VqmaLuJA0tGw5bGE5xYp](https://www.scribd.com/document/511582218/askdocs-pdf?secret_password=VqmaLuJA0tGw5bGE5xYp) It will be much easier to read th

Hi everyone (throwaway account here), I need help on how to proceed with a meeting I am going to have with my staff pharmacist who got caught on camera stealing drugs at 5 different instances in the past 3 months. All drugs were non narcotic for personal use such as cochicine, nitrofurantoin, naprox

Yesterday, I had a prescriber send over 12 seperate prednisone rx's trying to do a taper. Today, I had a prescriber writing for the 2.4mg wegovy but to inject 0.5mg. I asked them if they instructed the patient on how to get 0.5mg out of a pen designed to inject 2.4mg and they said "no, why? did the

Before official corona virus news started trickling in, I recall a large number of people coming into the pharmacy for a few months with a terrible cough that wouldn’t go away. For the most part these were regulars I had known for years with no outstanding health problems. Now that I think back we w

Hello. Just got a message from pharmacy about norco for chronic pain in an elderly patient, “alternative requested, please add icd code, is patient seeing pain specialist.” I do appreciate the concern, however in this particular patient I believe it is warranted, (she has tried several other class