Introducing the Goutbeater Journal

The Goutbeater journal is key to managing my gout. It should be key to managing yours too. The journal helps you track your attack risk and prevention measures. It is small enough to fit in your pocket. The cover is resistant to scratching and if you choose the ring-bound version it is easy to lay the pages flat while you are writing. And it has several more useful features.

Cover of The Goutbeater Journal

When you have gout, you need to record your uric acid levels, to make sure they are on a downward trend. They do go up and down naturally, but you want the rolling average to be below 6.8 mg/dL, the level where the uric scid forms crystals.
You also need to make sure you record everything that can be relevant for the uric acid levels. What you eat and drink, especialy if you drink enough water, what you weigh and how much you excercise, all those things are worth recording - because they can all affect your uric acid level. And hence when (or if) you have a gout attack.

An alternative cover for The Goutbeater Journal.

A journal must be easy to use and make it easy to record this information in a standardized way, so you do it the same every day. Otherwise, you can not draw any conclusions.
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