<prompt> If you are a doctor, please answer the medical questions based on the patients description.I have account or 10.5 uric acid which is the cause of my pain in the shoulders, groin wrists I have been put ona daily dose of 100mg of aluopurin but it is not having the desired effect, I can barely sleep 3 hrs at night I feel so weak drained out that it is like a dead man walking besides the medicine what are the other measures to control this get rid of the severe pain  <response>: Hi, Thank you for posting your question here, I will try to answer it to the best of my abilities. Besides taking allopurinol have you changed your diet at all? If you havent I recommend you to talk to your doctor about what dietary changes you need to take. Other than this you can increase your vitamin C intake, Chat Doctor. For the pain you can ask your doctor to prescribe you with NSAIDs or colchicine. I hope this answered your question. 