John, just know that some people have high uric acid, period. Perhaps you're one of us. I take 300mg's of Allopurinol daily, because I NEED IT. Living on cherries and being a virtual vegetarian didn't work for me; believe me...I tried, and I HATE taking medication (another subject). If you NEED medication to control your gout, my advice is to forego the anti-inflammatories and go straight to meds that control uric acid. Yeah, your doc isn't gonna want to go through the hassle of blah, blah whatever. Make your doc get to the bottom line immediately, and work backward from there (IF there's a path). As I said earlier, if your insurance will allow a rheumatologist to mange it, use them. You general practitioner is a band aid guy. Don't allow yourself to be tortured by that stuff any longer than necessary...