"If you already have gout, drinking coffee may help to reduce your chance of having a flare-up. This is because coffee may help to lower the uric acid your body creates. It may also improve your body's excretion of uric acid." - Mayo Clinic
Other sources that I have perused in the last couple of days (cannot remember enough to cite them by name) say coffee is OK during a flare-up of gout for the same reasons as the Mayo Clinic info in the quotes above.
So, I drink exactly 14 ounces of black coffee every morning: no sugar and no cream. I sip slowly; and in my 14 oz. insulated mug my coffee lasts me a couple of hours.
Cherries are good for gout, and they are in season. And they are also very effective in helping with my opiod-induced constipation (TMI?).
I'm drinking copious amounts of water every day, and night. But that was also because of doctor's orders in the post-op discharge instructions.
Waiting for doc to call (it will probably be his NP, but that's totally OK).
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