Your personal reaction to colchicine and/or allopurinol for gout?

Your personal reaction to colchicine and/or allopurinol for gout?good? bad? side effects you have experienced? Good News? How long were you on it? How long did you have gout before taking it? Which joints?

thanks for your responses

startrekfan4ever
Been taking it for the last 4 years. Symptoms go away in 24 hours. The more often you take it though, the more likely you get the "runs". It's a side effect I can live with versus the pain of gout. It just started appearing in my knee a few months ago, which was a first. Before that, it was my big toe first, then my whole foot, then around the shins. Taking it with Indomethicin (anti-inflamatory for the pain - three times a day). I have had gout since the late 1990's. It's hereditary on my mom's side (unfortunately for me). When I eat too much fried foods or red meat, it seems to act up then. Just this past weekend, I took the meds prior to four different parties when I thought I felt some slight pain. Never flared up all weekend.

Hope that helps.

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