Living with psoriatic arthritis already feels like enough to manage

Living with psoriatic arthritis already feels like enough to manage — adding gout on top of that must be genuinely exhausting. I've read that the two can coexist more often than people expect, which makes sense when you think about how much inflammation is involved in both.

Something I found interesting while reading up on this: uric acid levels can sometimes run higher when the body is dealing with a lot of skin and joint activity. Not as a direct cause, more as a passenger that shows up alongside everything else.

From what I've gathered, diet adjustments that tend to help with uric acid — staying well hydrated, going easy on red meat and shellfish — don't seem to interfere with PsA management either. If anything, they seem to take some pressure off the overall inflammatory picture.

Has anyone here had their uric acid actually checked alongside their PsA markers? I'm curious whether your doctors raise it routinely or only when a joint episode looks different from the usual PsA flare. I ask because I follow uric acid topics quite closely and this overlap is something that comes up more and more in what I read.