Hi Craig! I just wrote a long reply and then 'lost' it -- don't know why but it is very frustrating! I was telling you that the urologist prescribed 300mg of Progout to stop me from making kidney stones without telling me that I might actually get GOUT by taking the medication! And low and behold I now have two highly inflamed big toes -- my GP was amazed that I hadn't been told that this might happen. So now I have to take medication - Indocid- to reduce the gout! I feel like a patchwork quilt -- a bit of myeloma, a bit of kidney stones, a bit of gout, a bit of flu and pneumonia injections -- and none of the doctors know the whole story. I really need some sort of health care notebook that each of the doctors can write in when I visit so that I can show it to each of the others and everyone would know what is happening to me medically -- and hopefully a mis medication incident would not happen! Right now its all piecemeal. You'd think that the GP could access my records held at the hospital and that the other specialists could give information to the GP within less than two months -- it would make for a much higher quality of care. But people go on and on about privacy laws etc -- I'd be happy for them all to access everything and I'm sure many others would too. Its just so frustrating -- and painful, gout is not pleasant -- for what?? Again, the system frustrates me even though my doctors are the very best! So my message for today is: take care when prescribed gout medication -- make sure its not going to give you gout before it starts to work on kidney stones!! I mentioned the renal cancer/myeloma connection to my GP and he'd never heard of it so I've left the print out with him. Many thanks again, Cath