Gout

[Blooz]

While I'm thinking about it, don't rely on ibuprofen and the like for pain relief. I pounded down over ten years so much Tylenol, Advil and Aleve trying to kill the pain of gout my liver has really taken a beating.

Get to a doctor! They can help you!

[katanaso]

While I'm thinking about it, don't rely on ibuprofen and the like for pain relief. I pounded down over ten years so much Tylenol, Advil and Aleve trying to kill the pain of gout my liver has really taken a beating.

Get to a doctor! They can help you!

Smart advice for anybody in any chronic pain.  Taking it for long periods of time destroys the liver.

He has meds though, but is out of them.  Colchicine does wonders.

For me, I can no longer eat shrimp or mussels, which sucks, because I really enjoyed them.  However, it takes as little as 3 shrimp to set off an attack.  I found out that deli ham (Boar's Head) does the same thing.

[Nathan60]

I found out the hard way beans are also bad for gout as are fatty fish I've been nailed before by shirmp also biggesty culperate is deffinatly soda and I have struggled with that. I'll go on a coke bing now and then and pay for it. As for the cherries I have a really thick concentrate cherry juice I mix with water. I eneded up driving my self to the dr(murder on the ankle) and of course only parking space was around the corner down a hill. Looking forward to a good sleep tonight. Lunchmeats are rough on gout  but you can maybe get away with low sodium ham(the ingles stuff aint bad)  Luckily I have a desk job now so I dont have to hobble around pulling orders in a warehouse as I once did.

[mbailey]

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

   thats the spirit!

[smoe]

I had it for the first time this summer. I noticed a lot of other people limping around the same time. I wonder if it is some darn food additive/increase.

I would recommend drinking more water. I think this may have been my problem because I was drinking more softdrinks and less water than usual. Water is the first thing your body needs to reduce the crystal buildup in your joints.

[Rash]

I got it the first time after finishing about 6 weeks of intervenous antibiotics.  Mine usually flares up 2 days after some sort of impact to my toe or foot.  Like jumping off something high or stubbing one of my big toes.  I'm allergic to Allopurinol, found that out the hard way. 

If I take 2 aleve right when I first notice a slight bit of pain, I'm usually fine within 12 hours. I will usually take 1 every 12 hours for a couple days after that.   If I wait 4 hours before taking aleve, I'm screwed and have to go through that awful pain for the next couple days.  Sometimes that pain starts in the middle of the night while sleeping.  That's when it usually gets me.

Drinking lots of water seems to help prevent a flareup.

[Nathan60]

Gout is  a vampire it is  always at its worse at night.

[katanaso]

Gout is  a vampire it is  always at its worse at night.

Sleeping is tough.  I usually elevate my leg on 3 or 4 pillows when I have an attack.

Hope you get better soon.

[Sonicblu]

The right diet really helps. Get rid of meat in your diet. Go to a plant based diet....newer studies have shown that purine from plants has no effect on gout.

I suffer from psorisis and diet is the only thing that has given me relief.

I recommend reading "the china study".

[Stalwart]

I know two folk with gout that are both very fit.  Mother is one of them.  It's not a fat thing.

At least it provides a great excuse to eat a bowl full of dark cherries each night.