Can Glucosamine Chondroitin cause a gout attack?
August 4, 2009 by Arthritis and Joint Pain Tips
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I had a gout attack nine months ago. I started taking four Gout Care tablets a day for prevention. Then I started taking three extra strength Glucosamine Chondroitin pills a day because of arthritis in my knee. Two weeks later, and quite unexpectedly, I had a gout attack. My diet, although, not perfect was good. I drank enough water each day. I drank no beer nor ate any seafood. I wonder if it’s the Glucosamine Chondroitin pills. The ingredients contains four kinds of shell-fish.
Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis
I had a gout attack nine months ago. I started taking four Gout Care tablets a day for prevention. Then I started taking three extra strength Glucosamine Chondroitin pills a day because of arthritis in my knee. Two weeks later, and quite unexpectedly, I had a gout attack. My diet, although, not perfect was good. I drank enough water each day. I drank no beer nor ate any seafood. I wonder if it’s the Glucosamine Chondroitin pills. The ingredients contains four kinds of shell-fish.
Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis
Arthritis Feedback: Glucosamine and/or Chondroitin should have no effect on gout - neither positive or negative.
Arthritis Feedback: Yep, I agree with Craig, I searched on the internet and found into that says Glucosamine Chondroitin (GC) shouldn’t affect gout one way or the other. GC is made from the outer shells apparently, not the shell meat.
I have personal experience taking the Gout Care pills. While I think they may have helped somewhat, I still got gout attacks occasionally, even with as you say a good but not perfect diet, drinking lots of water, staying away from beer.
But my plan of attack for the past several months has been this:
1. Take allopurinol, it’s a prescription from the doctor. It helps remove uric acid from the body. I have no side effects at all and it’s very inexpensive.
2. Drink 12 oz water with 1/2 tsp of baking soda once or twice a day. Helps the body be more alkaline, opposite of acidic.
3. Avoid high fructose corn syrup. This stuff just makes the body think it hasn’t taken in food, so you become more hungry, and the more a gout person eats, the tougher it is to avoid the bad gout foods.
4. Celery seed pills. They may help the liver to not produce so much uric acid.
5. I’ve just about given up beer altogether. Was difficult to do but I felt enough pain finally to change.
6. Red wine is a nice alternative. Again I don’t drink a lot of it.
7. Eat lots of sour dairy, ie. cottage cheese, sour cream, play yogurt in a smoothie with orange juice and pineapple and frozen berries.
8. When you say “I drank enough water each day”, “enough” for us gout folks is 1 oz for every 2 lbs of body weight. I’m a small guy, I weigh 150 lbs, and for me that’s more than 9 8-oz glasses every day. That’s alot.
9. Drink fruit juices that are only 100% juice. V8 Fusion is my favorite, they have many different flavors, and there’s veggie juice in it too and it tastes good.
Good luck to you!
I heard they said Glucosamine has no effect on gout, but I have to suspect it does. My gout attack just happened few days after Glucosamine taken, similar symtom to others, but we have no prove of it. But I do think it caused my gout attack.
I too suspect Glucosamine - Chondroitin a contributing factor to my first gout attack to the big toe.
All the readings say no, however I started taking Glucosamine & Chondoitin a week ago and thought things were not feeling so good. Now last night sever gout, maybe diet related as have been a little careless however I doubt.
I think they need to do more studies into this and think they may find somehow it does have an effect