{"id":65,"date":"2015-03-15T12:21:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T17:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=65"},"modified":"2015-03-15T12:21:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T17:21:19","slug":"a-gentle-suggestion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/03\/15\/a-gentle-suggestion\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gentle Suggestion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/gout.html\" target=\"_blank\">gout<\/a>.\u00a0 I now go to a rheumatologist for treatment.\u00a0 She has some interesting stories about gout and does active research.\u00a0 One of those scary little stories is that gout, or rather the high levels of uric acid that causes gout, can also result in the deterioration and even destruction of your <strong>kidneys<\/strong>.\u00a0 Having watched my mother struggle with the loss of her kidneys (due to a rare, obscure disease named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/ency\/article\/000142.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Goodpasture Syndrome<\/a> &#8211; unconnected to gout), I feel entirely justified to tell every reader of this blog to GO AND GET YOUR URIC ACID LEVELS CHECKED.\u00a0 The test is cheap.\u00a0 If your level is out of range, insist on an appointment with a rheumatologist, because, according to my rheumatologist, most MDs do not have the training to understand what can happen.<\/p>\n<p>Treatment can be very cheap, if you respond well to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/druginfo\/meds\/a682673.html\" target=\"_blank\">Allopurinol<\/a>, which I mostly do.\u00a0 Prices bounce around.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen it as low as $4\/month and as high as $16\/month.\u00a0 Oddly enough, my insurance doesn&#8217;t cover Allopurinol, or so the pharmacy tells me.\u00a0 But then, I don&#8217;t care much for my prescription insurance &#8211; but that&#8217;s a subject of another rant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have gout.\u00a0 I now go to a rheumatologist for treatment.\u00a0 She has some interesting stories about gout and does active research.\u00a0 One of those scary little stories is that gout, or rather the high levels of uric acid that causes gout, can also result in the deterioration and even \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/03\/15\/a-gentle-suggestion\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}