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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JenniferG" data-source="post: 1609647" data-attributes="member: 306119">Hi Lynx, my gout is much better now that I've been adjusting the allopurionol dose each day with a given level of uric acid in my blood.  I have a decent meter (Easy Touch from Indonesia).  The strips for it come in a canister of 25 for $14.50.  So this makes the strips cost about $0.58 a piece. I test twice per day, fasting & PM -- if uric acid level is a little higher than normal in the PM then I take a little extra allopurinol based on the result.Regarding insulin, just over 2 months ago I was injecting about 80 units per day, for several months.  Then all of a sudden I started waking up around 70 mg/dL [3.9 mmol/L]..   So I started titrating the doses of basal insulin down accordingly.  Within a one week period that went from 80 units per day down to 30 units per day.  A few days after that I had to titrate down to 24 units.I was on 24 units per day for several weeks until all of a sudden in one week I had to titrate down that 24 units to zero units.  I was then waking around 85 mg/dL [4.7 mmol/L] without any insulin at all.Then I got ill a couple weeks back and had to temporairly go back on basal insulin becasue my pancreas could not keep up with the stress (cortisol/liver dumps) due to illness.However, now I have been off insulin again for 8 days. I woke with 99 mg/dL [5.5 mmol/L] this morning.  If it gets any higher I might consider going on a small dose of basal insulin again in the near future.</blockquote>

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