Re: Hair loss & blood pressure.

What are the typical side effects of drugs that lower uric acid levels? Could the harm be outweighed by the reduction of pain?

My mom was not sleeping or doing much of anything physically when she "ballooned up."

Her arm and wrist swelling has come back, closer to the point that it was about two weeks ago. Do you have any ideas about this cycle of arm/wrist swelling, easing up, and swelling again?

EDIT: I'm not sure if my brother has already told you this, but my mom has been experiencing something strange over the past few weeks. At times, her thighs, or rather, the part of her body from her ribs down to just above her knees (on both sides) lose feeling. She is sometimes unable to get up because of her inability to control these muscles, it seems. She also experiences strange feelings like crawling sensations on her thighs and a general feeling of discomfort (she says that she cannot quite classify this as "pain"). Finally, she is sometimes unable to make a fist with either hand, or curl her fingers fully, or sometimes move her fingers at all. What do you think this could be?