I have been having what the doctor thought and I was gout attack for a while now. We never did blood tests because those are the worst way to diagnose gout. Have to tap a joint and get the fluid out to know for sure I was told. Well, I had knee surgery recently and along with the pictures of the problems in the knee, the doctor took pictures of what he said was ua deposits all over the bones of the knee. While he was in there, he took blood for a ua test, here at our hospital they use an 8.6 mg/dL number as the upper end of normal, I am at 8.5 mg/dL. The surgeon did not however, take a sample of a deposit and have it looked at to identify it. He gave me allopurinol 100mg was supposed to take it 1 time a day. However, after the 3rd dose my gums started to bleed, stopped taking it and they stopped bleeding. Nobody here can understand why the gums started to bleed. The surgeon told me to stop taking the indomethacin, as it is too hard on the stomach, he gave me something else for it. Recently I had another blood test done, the numbers have not changed in well over a year. I am a 47-year-old overweight male with IBS as well, which is treated with Hyoscyamine .375mg 2 times a day. I guess my questions are: has anybody else ever heard of gums bleeding with the use of allopurinol? Currently, I am not doing anything for the high levels of uA and have heard that untreated, gout can kill. Is that true?