No. The go-to gout drug for my doctor, like for most other doctors it seems, is allopurinol. I don't think they know how to tell whether you are retaining the UA or producing too much of it, so their default is allopurinol. Maybe there are many more people who produce too much UA, so doctors tend to favor allopurinol as a treatment.
In my case, I don't know what camp I'm in, but I've done a lot of natural things like losing weight, reduce acidic and high-purines foods and drinks, stepped up going to the gym and exercising. It seems to be working, but like you said, with gout you never know.
By the way, at my gym I regularly go to the steam room and sauna where I sweat like a pig and presumably get rid of some UA through perspiration. (I read somewhere that we get rid of about 10% of UA through perspiration. I have no idea whether this is true or not.) You might want to consider that since you might be in the retaining-UA camp.