Gout

[Nathan60]

Somebody please come take out behind the barn and put me down. 

[katanaso]

It sucks.  I get acute onsets in my right big toe, and sometimes in my left big toe as well.

If it's in your toe, see a Podiatrist and have him/her prescribe Colchicine.  It can alleviate the pain and swelling rapidly. 

When I'm out, I take multiple Aleve or 800mg of Ibuprofin to help with the pain and inflammation.  I repeat every 3-4 hours for a day or two.

Do you know what the triggers are?  Finding them and avoiding certain foods helped me immensely.  If you're not sure, what did you last eat and drink in the past day or two?

[Traveler]

I've never known anyone with Gout that was not overweight.  See a doctor, make a plan and stick to it.  once the pain is undercontrol , get off your butt and walk 2 miles a day, everyday, 7 days a week.  get rid of the weight and you will get rid of th Gout.  Good luck.

[lyric1]

I've never known anyone with Gout that was not overweight.  See a doctor, make a plan and stick to it.  once the pain is undercontrol , get off your butt and walk 2 miles a day, everyday, 7 days a week.  get rid of the weight and you will get rid of th Gout.  Good luck.

I know a few people that are not overweight & are rail thin & still suffer from Gout.

[nrshida]

Ah, the old lead pill round the back of the barn. Will a Webley .455 suffice? 

[Curval]

Yea, gout isn't just an overweight person's problem.

Hopefully you like cherries Nathan.  Not marachinno (sp?) cherries, the fresh ones with the pit inside.  Regular eating of them will decrease your flare ups significantly.

My father has gout (and is overweight) but my secretary has it too and she is not really overweight at all.  The latter claims that only giving birth comes close to the pain of gout.  Having seen my father suffer I believe it.  This is a man who sat through an entire dinner with 3rd degree burns on his ankle and didn't even complain about it.  (He'd had an accident on the way to the dinner and ruined a bunch of their napkins by bleeding all over them from wounds on his arms, we never knew about his ankle until he went to the emergency the next day, complaining that his ankle was "a bit sore".)

[mbailey]

Ah, the old lead pill round the back of the barn. Will a Webley .455 suffice? 

Oh....Oh.....can i shoot it before you put him down.....Ive always wanted to shoot one of those 

[Traveler]

third degree burns are not painfull, the nerves have been destroyed that generate the pain message to the brain, so no pain.  it's the surrounding second and first degree burns that generate the pain.  Or to be more correct, full thinkness burns generate no pain messages.  partial thinkness burns are very painful.  Third degree = Full thinkness burn

[katanaso]

I've never known anyone with Gout that was not overweight.  See a doctor, make a plan and stick to it.  once the pain is undercontrol , get off your butt and walk 2 miles a day, everyday, 7 days a week.  get rid of the weight and you will get rid of th Gout.  Good luck.

It's not related to weight.  You happened to know overweight people that had it.

[Nathan60]

Yeah, I took a chance and had a few beers while watching the SEC championship. The only source of caffine I now enjoy is coffee and luckily the coffee been has some of the same effects as cheeries. I am currently out of colchicine and indomethicin. Usually if I have an attack its ina  toe and I can tough it out however theis atack is big  and is in the ankle joint so I cant walk or drive at all. Currently waiting for  soemone to give me a ride since there is no way I can drive my car which is a manual.  Its odd for a woman to have gout . I've read that fewer than 3% of the female population world wide has gout.

[mbailey]

Forgot to say Nathan.....I have a good friend that suffers from gout....not fun watching him go thru what he does when it flares up......I hope you get it under control and feel better soon.....I didnt mean to make light of your suffering in my last post 

[Nathan60]

LOL np Bailey I took no offense, Id want to shoot it a few times myself.

[Babalonian]

Somebody please come take out behind the barn and put me down.  

Sorry Hammy, it sucks.  Drink more water bro, like a gallon a day if not two (the yellower your piss, the more lactic acid (?) in your system, the more lactic acid (?) the more gout you'll have).

Edit: Uric acid, ty Blooz!

I know a few people that are not overweight & are rail thin & still suffer from Gout.

As do I, they both drink enough soda to piss corn syrup.

[Blooz]

Gout is caused by high uric acid in the blood. Uric acid is the byproduct of metabilized animal fats and shellfish. Uric acid crystalizes on the tendons and ligaments of the extremities (feet, hands, ankles, wrists) because the blood cools there. The crystals (which look like broken glass under a microscope) inflame the tissues causing incredible pain.

I and my father used to suffer. Doctors have several uric acid reducing meds to prescribe these days. He uses Uloric. I use Allopurinol.

Get to a doctor and get your blood uric acid checked. You don't have to suffer!

[Curval]

third degree burns are not painfull, the nerves have been destroyed that generate the pain message to the brain, so no pain.  it's the surrounding second and first degree burns that generate the pain.  Or to be more correct, full thinkness burns generate no pain messages.  partial thinkness burns are very painful.  Third degree = Full thinkness burn

Jebus...always one.  Cum 'ere and I'll hold a hot muffler on your ankle until the skin chars.  Then you can tell me how much it doesn't hurt.