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You should be able to ask your pharmacist for free. (Presumably you have a pharmacy where you get these meds.)

I assume you also have a doctor who prescribed these (hopefully you still have access), but that might cost. However your doctor s clinic, and if you have insurance, then probably your insurance provider, will often have an advice nurse service for free as well. They can often offer limited advice about medications (such as whether a specific med could be causing a specific reaction, or whether a specific reaction requires a visit to a doctor or not, or whether you should go to urgent care or to ER), but one should check with their actual doc before stopping a medication (in case, for instance, it needs to be withdrawn slowly).

You can also search the web, which can answer could this medication cause kidney problems , although it cannot answer whether it is in your specific case or not (for that you ll have to see your doctor and get some blood drawn and have a urinalysis). Usually in this case something like allpurinol kidney or colcrys adverse kidney or allpurinol kidney damage will bring up the answers you are looking for just at this moment.

Because you re asking here instead of searching yourself, I will assume you either don t have time/energy, or aren t sure how to look for reliable health information. Just in case it s the latter, web search strategy tips are as follows: Best health answers are usually at .edu. gov, and specific disease organization sites and the major clinics like Cleveland Clinic and MD Anderson, but some of the health encyclopedias written for the lay audience, such as WebMD and About.com Health are considered generally reliable as well. One industry source considered reliable is the Merck manual; they have a version for the public as well as one for health professionals. You can also search PubMed, and this is advised if your condition is rare or not well understood. Hopefully in that case at least the disease organizations would have some good information, too.

Wikipedia is generally considered unreliable, but can be useful for finding the answer to something you actually need a populist answer to, like what brand of liquid bandage works best for dyshidrotic exema (it s out of production, unfortunately). PatientsLikeMe can provide this sort of populist answer as well. HealClick is an up-and-coming site which will provide more closely matched populist answers.

From my internet search (I would say Google Fu, but this was more Bing Fu), it looks to me like allpurinol is meant to prevent or slow kidney damage from gout (though it could also be used to treat kidney stones), e.g.:

but rarely it might cause kidney damage, e.g.:

The other drug seems similar. I am not a doctor and have no medical qualifications. It sounds to me like you should visit your doctor to have both your gout and your kidneys which you suspect to be not ok, checked out.