Living with gout is easier with good information and people who get it. The Community screen brings gout articles from trusted sources, a forum, the GoutMe blog, and a list of rheumatology clinics and GPs near you.
Of 517 people with gout, 95% of those given nurse-led education and engagement reached the urate target at two years, against 30% with usual care.
Doherty et al., Lancet 2018New articles come in daily, are summarised in a sentence or two, tagged by topic, and only published if they are genuinely about gout, uric acid, flares, sleep, weight or the treatments that have evidence behind them. Miracle-cure marketing scores low and stays out.
The forum is a place to ask and answer with other people who have flares. Every post can be reported. The blog carries longer pieces from GoutMe and is open to everyone at goutme.app/blog.
Guidance lists rheumatology clinics and GPs near you, once your location has come in. They are listed from Google, are not part of GoutMe and cannot see anything you have logged. Activities and the walk relief are there to be logged, never prescribed.
The Community screen, from the button at the top of the app. It opens on Guidance, the nearby clinics and GPs and any practitioner you share with, then Articles, Forum and Blogs.
Nothing for the articles and the blog. Posting in the forum needs your account. The nearby list needs location at city level and appears once your first location has come in. All of it is free.
Yes. Articles, the forum, the blog and the nearby list are part of the free app.
No. They come from Google and have no link to your account.
It needs your location, at city level. Once location is on, the list appears when your first location has come in, usually within a day.
