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Use it

71 year old Male

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try another way before.

47 year old Male

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it is the best preventative medicine for gout

67 year old Female

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this helps me not to get Gout. I use to get it real frequent. No I have not had it in over a year.

58 year old Female

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For how long you have been taking allopurinol ? do you experinece any problem during urination ?

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I was started on this drug along with colchicine, and the side effects were horrible for me. I was told that I had gout, but my great toe had been effected by several surgeries to my back that failed. In fact after the back surgeries, I am now told I have failed back syndrome. I only took the two drugs along with furosemide for maybe two days and got a very serious skin rash. It looked as if I was burned!!! Liver function tests were performed and they were off the charts. I went to the doctor for the pain in my foot, and this is what I was given. Turns out my back had gotten worse, scar tissue and spinal stenosis were the cause of the foot pain. The rash continued over a week even after the medications were stopped. Make sure the proper test are performed before you take a doctor's word and start a new medication. Doctors are human too and often times make mistakes.

53 year old Female

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This is for the previous response I'm only 37 years old with four children.

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