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Hi Keith
Many thanks for your reply, it has been very enlightening. We have a uric acid meter at home, as my husband’s uric acid level doesnt seem to get checked by his doctor very often. But it also means that we can keep a check on this level. Most of the time his level is between 5 and 5.5, though we do get lower readings at times. However it does appear to be teetering on the edge of what it needs to be below, so maybe it does seem that he needs a larger does of allopurinol. He has also had some high readings – these have generally followed a night out ( it was 9.7 the day after a works Christmas do, and took a while to settle again), or on return from holiday. The reason I associated it with drinking alcohol was because each attack that occurs tends to be 10 -14 days after heavy drinking sessions. The previous attack in his ankle in November was put down as being an infection in his blood? He was given antibiotics and it cleared up. This current ankle problem appears to be very similar to the last one, but much more severe and long lasting, and again, occurred a couple of weeks after several heavy drinking sessions. My husband has got antibiotics again, but they don’t seem to be having much of an effect this time. He’s also got 30/500 cocodamol which are not helping the pain, and he’s resorting to using a stick to aid his mobility. Do you have any suggestions that may help?

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