Hope your gouty toe is better these days.
In the last 10 years or so I changed my diet to avert gout quite effectively.
Uric acid can be effectively purged by a mild alkaline diet, basic chemistry. Acid met alkaline and react into water + salt and get pee out in urine. My gout toe shrinks to nearly normal, the rheumatologist discharged my case from SGH specialist clique in about 2010.
That meant I am recovered or healed.
It was due to my past job travelling everywhere and over-eating over-drinking in many countries and living in hotels more than home, and flying like air crew, never got proper rest. Those days I got gout attacks all the time and carried those medicine to fly around.:p When the uric acid gets more concentrated in my body the medicine (anti-inflame etc) became ineffective. During 1st few times a doze of diclofenac sodium will knock off the swell and pains within 20 mins. But as I continued to take 3 inch juicy steaks & beer even steroid course could only get rid of pains & swells more than 1 week after attacks. :*::p
Fortunately I learned. My makan motto now is
stuffs are easy to take into our bodies but very hard to remove, some harmful stuffs will never be removed and remain in our corpses. So unless you are sure that it is good for your body never put it in your mouth, especially just only because you like the taste. Good tasty food are mostly unhealthy food, healthy food usually taste SUCKS.:(
After spending 10 years healing that, I became gout expert helping friends and family members to treat gout. So the current climate is very gout prone climate as you sweat and dry up in the strong wind, you don't feel really hot to make yourself drink more water. As a result you pass little urine, and your uric acid level shoots up. This acid never get out via sweating skin and for men it can only get out by either pee or (NKF) dialysis, for women uric acid can get out via menstrual blood.
Weather like this week many people will not drink a whole lot of water because wind is still cool but sun is strong, so they sweat most of the water away instead of pee away. Uniquely this will cause uric acid level to shoot up. This acid is very hurtful as it deposits into your old injury (damaged) spots and joints like toes and fingers, it gets swelling red hot and tender and pain like hell, felt like injuries. They can travel with blood causing allergic reactions everywhere. Their crystals are gout stones causing rheumatoid and kidney stones.
In most lethal cases can attack heart muscles & brain causing strokes.