Hello @writer99, welcome to Connect. I have high levels of uric acid due to one of my medications. I also have painful neuropathy in my feet. When my uric acid levels started to rise, the pain was quite excruciating.

Like you I try to manage what I can by eating well. The links John posted are helpful and will help you know what foods to avoid, if you don’t know already. I don’t drink and I don’t eat beef or pork. I also don’t eat refined sugars, white flour, etc. I used to eat turkey, but I’ve been phasing it out of my diet as I notice that I can get gout flare ups from it.

I’ve done research on cherries, which does seem to show a correlation in reducing uric acid in one’s body. Plus, they’re healthy certainly won’t hurt! My diet and eating 5-6 cherries each day seems to be working for me. I’ve not had a bad flare for a couple months. I buy frozen unsweetened cherries and keep them in a small jar in my refrigerator. I’ll be getting my quarterly labs done next month so I’ll be able to see what my uric acid levels are at.

Here’s an article - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6535740/

Best wishes, Athena