The "Black Menace" is pretty forlorn, LOL

The gout meds don't seem to be what was affecting me. I have one other unrelated med, and the rhumatologist "guessed" that I might have a form of arthritis which cannot be tested for. I forget what it is called. I stopped that med, and he now has me on an alternate, which "so far so good."

I do not have "conventional" gout pain. This was discovered in a search for my joint pain which I thought (had been told by previous med people) was osteo arthritis. It is not. I actually am starting to feel somewhat better. No idea why, if it "really" is from some med, or just happenchance plus the improving weather.

My new doc assurs me that "at the level" that my gout (uric acid) had reached, no amount of changes in food would have been effective.

Thanks for the suggestion, I had heard about this. I do like cherries, and eat them in summer.