Got gout?

[Warpy]

1. My mother had it

and refused to watch her diet so she was periodically on allopuinol and colchicine and whatever the NSAID du jour was, once they'd been invented.

A lot of people with gout can be diet controlled, and not the extreme form of the low purine diet reserved for acute attacks. Just avoiding super high purine foods will do it. Others will need to be on medication intermittently and a few will be on it for life.