I've been taking Triamtrn/HCTZ Tab 75-50 for HBP, approx 4 years....

I never experienced gout until two years after I was prescribed maxide and zebeta for control of high blood pressure. My first onslaughts were treated like "tendenitis." After my fourth bout, in about a year, my internist sent me to a nephrologist, who immediately diagnosed gout. After being removed from maxide, all gout disappeared for almost five years. When it returned again, I was told that whatever else maxide did, it exacerbated a pre-existing genetic condition and permanently harmed my kidney function. Now, I'm told, I have no choice. It will be colchicine and allapurinal for the rest of my life, or misery.