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Lower Uric Acid Gives Faster Gout Cure

Your gout symptoms clear faster with lower uric acid, but how low should you go?

Tophi Shrink Fast With Low Uric Acid

It is very difficult to measure how fast old uric acid crystals are dissolving, but for chronic tophaceous gout sufferers, we can measure how fast their tophi shrink.

Allopurinol for gout has been around for 40 years, and febuxostat is the latest weapon in a growing list of medicines that will lower uric acid. But still people are unsure how low they need to go.
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