Ron Swanson
Footballguy
I know there have been discussions on this before but I'm search impaired. My wife has a pretty nasty case of gout that has popped up. Any remedies other than no alcohol?
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Gout - Remedies? (1 Viewer)
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culdeus
Footballguy
Swap to a diet high in resistant starch. Potatoes of all kinds should be a major feature at every meal or potentially the only feature.
Diet is a minor factor for some. You may have to have a long term plan to deal with this as it is similar to kidney stones. Once it happens it tends to keep coming back.
Diet is a minor factor for some. You may have to have a long term plan to deal with this as it is similar to kidney stones. Once it happens it tends to keep coming back.
The General
Footballguy
Everyone I know that has this has a bad diet, little exercise, and is heavy. Not sure if there are any short cuts.
A close friend had it and I know it can hurt like hell. He made huge lifestyle change and it has gone away for him.
A close friend had it and I know it can hurt like hell. He made huge lifestyle change and it has gone away for him.
Ron Swanson
Footballguy
Thanks a ton, guys. Aleve has helped and she's off to the Doc. Tomorrow
Brony
Footballguy
Spent a ####ing decade plus of my life dealing with all issues around gout. Short term : keep prednisone (ideally) or other NSAID around and load up on that stuff at the first twinge or signal of an oncoming attack.
Long term : get uric acid under control and people have fewer attacks. This has been proven over and over. 85 % of people have high uric acid due to kidneys and diet has minimal impact in this situation. By all means try diet as its free and might work. If not, take medication to keep uric acid low. If you can keep uric acid levels low, you will eventually have fewer attacks.
Source :hundreds of interviews with patients and physicians. Plus medical publications.
If you want to try cherry juice or other stuff, knock yourself out. In controlled studies it does not work but God bless the power of placebo.
Long term : get uric acid under control and people have fewer attacks. This has been proven over and over. 85 % of people have high uric acid due to kidneys and diet has minimal impact in this situation. By all means try diet as its free and might work. If not, take medication to keep uric acid low. If you can keep uric acid levels low, you will eventually have fewer attacks.
Source :hundreds of interviews with patients and physicians. Plus medical publications.
If you want to try cherry juice or other stuff, knock yourself out. In controlled studies it does not work but God bless the power of placebo.
Ramblin Wreck
Footballguy
My dad had it before and used Cherry Juice, Tumeric supplement, and something else. Google it. Agree with the aleve advice and ice it if you can stand it. I've heard it's hurt just to have a bed sheet on it.
Fantasy_Freak
Footballguy
I used to get gout regularly, but lately I haven't had any issues. I would drink a lot of water to remedy the situation, but I would also drink pure Cherry Juice, the stuff is tart and hard to drink on a regular basis, but I would drink a small glass every morning and it seemed to work pretty well.
Workhorse
Footballguy
Been prescribed that too. Colchichine for flare-ups and prophylacticly before starting the Allipurinol.
Long Ball Larry
Footballguy
rich man's disease. i say kick back and enjoy.
Tom Servo
Nittany Beavers
Brony
Footballguy
You probably got dealt bad kidneys in the genetic lottery. Sucks. Keep that uric acid below 6 and ideally 5 and you'll be fine. Keep hydrated too.
Ron Swanson
Footballguy
So, it turns out my wife didn't have gout. But the Doc missed it too until she went to a podiatrist and got X-Rays. Turned out to be a broken foot. 6 weeks or so in a boot and she's back to kicking my ### again.
Workhorse
Footballguy
Nope. No soda. Very little alcohol, shellfish or red meat. My doc says that my issues aren't dietary at all. Purely hereditary.
Tom Servo
Nittany Beavers
How do you go from gout to a broken foot?
Doug B
Footballguy
I thought I had gout about five years ago. I had about a week of rough pain at the base of the big toe with no obvious injury.
After reading up and self-doctoring, I was sure it was gout. Never went to a doctor. I took double doses of Aleve twice a day for two days, and the symptoms went away with nary a flare-up since. Due to the non-recurrence, I no longer think it was actually gout. Shared a lot of symptoms, though.
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
indomethacin - get it prescribed immediately. Almost instant relief. As a former gout sufferer - it was unbelievable. The alloprurinol is preventative more than immediate relief.
I'm telling you, you need this stuff. I didn't travel without it for years.
I'm telling you, you need this stuff. I didn't travel without it for years.
notoriousbill
Footballguy
I had 2 flare ups and the pain was unbearable. My Dr prescribed Allopurinol and I take it daily just to never have to go through that s#!+ again!
Brony
Footballguy
That is possible to have a flare-up once without recurrence for several years. A uric acid test would confirm. If you aren't on medication, uric acids are generally gonna run high, average or low - it's very unlikely that your uric acid has corrected since then. But if I was you, I'd just wait to see if you have another episode. At that point, take lots of NSAIDs and then have it checked via blood test.
I had a gout attack about 4 years ago. At least, I believed it was gout, and doctor agreed it was likely.
I was woken by intense pain one morning, just from weight of blanket on foot. The day before I had had painful urination, first and only time. The few days I suffered from gout were excruciating. I felt ridiculous but I was hopping around house on one foot, just contact with the floor with affected foot was very painful. Couldn’t walk for a few days, pain started in knuckle of big toe and spread up foot, foot actually became red and swollen, couldn’t even touch it. After that went away a few days later the same thing happened in my other foot except the pain and swelling were in middle toes and through sole of foot. It was weird and I’m still surprised at how painful it was.
Doctor told me I might expect chronic problems or it might not happen again for 15 years. So far, haven’t had it again.
As an aside, I get plenty of exercise and am not overweight, actually on the slender side. My diet is pretty terrible though. And, when I had the tests done, doctor told me my uric acid levels were normal.
I was woken by intense pain one morning, just from weight of blanket on foot. The day before I had had painful urination, first and only time. The few days I suffered from gout were excruciating. I felt ridiculous but I was hopping around house on one foot, just contact with the floor with affected foot was very painful. Couldn’t walk for a few days, pain started in knuckle of big toe and spread up foot, foot actually became red and swollen, couldn’t even touch it. After that went away a few days later the same thing happened in my other foot except the pain and swelling were in middle toes and through sole of foot. It was weird and I’m still surprised at how painful it was.
Doctor told me I might expect chronic problems or it might not happen again for 15 years. So far, haven’t had it again.
As an aside, I get plenty of exercise and am not overweight, actually on the slender side. My diet is pretty terrible though. And, when I had the tests done, doctor told me my uric acid levels were normal.
mr. furley
Footballguy
wife was complaining that her foot hurt last night. she got up in the middle of the night and tried to walk it off to no avail. this morning she was stretching her foot and toes.. telling me that she thinks it was plantar fasciitis.
she just texted to tell me she self-diagnosed turf toe based on her google searching.
i asked some questions.. she says "searing pain in my big toe. like someone is jamming an ice pick between my joints. it hurts so much!"
she just texted to tell me she self-diagnosed turf toe based on her google searching.
i asked some questions.. she says "searing pain in my big toe. like someone is jamming an ice pick between my joints. it hurts so much!"
Doug B
Footballguy
I don't know why I thought this ... but I had thought gout was very rare in women. Off to Google.
EDIT:
Guess I read stuff like this in the past and mentally overextended the effect:
EDIT:
Guess I read stuff like this in the past and mentally overextended the effect:
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mr. furley
Footballguy
beats me. i could be way off but the way she's describing it sounds exactly like how it feels when my big toe gets to burninatin and feelin all stabby
Doug B
Footballguy
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
rustycolts
Footballguy
2nd cherry juice when I was a produce manager I had countless numbers of people asking for cherry juice for gout.
Long Ball Larry
Footballguy
i used to get a similar thing ever 6-12 months for a few years. First time I went to the ER thinking that I had to have a broken foot even though I had no idea how that could have happened.I had a gout attack about 4 years ago. At least, I believed it was gout, and doctor agreed it was likely.
I was woken by intense pain one morning, just from weight of blanket on foot. The day before I had had painful urination, first and only time. The few days I suffered from gout were excruciating. I felt ridiculous but I was hopping around house on one foot, just contact with the floor with affected foot was very painful. Couldn’t walk for a few days, pain started in knuckle of big toe and spread up foot, foot actually became red and swollen, couldn’t even touch it. After that went away a few days later the same thing happened in my other foot except the pain and swelling were in middle toes and through sole of foot. It was weird and I’m still surprised at how painful it was.
Doctor told me I might expect chronic problems or it might not happen again for 15 years. So far, haven’t had it again.
As an aside, I get plenty of exercise and am not overweight, actually on the slender side. My diet is pretty terrible though. And, when I had the tests done, doctor told me my uric acid levels were normal.
Hasn't happened for a few years, maybe because I started getting better shoes for walking. It might actually be more related to arthritis than gout.
supermike80
Footballguy
I just opened this however I was gonna pipe in until I saw you replied.
I self diagnosed gout as well...>Turned out to be bunions.
mr. furley
Footballguy
https://www.arthritis.org/about-arthritis/types/gout/what-is-gout.php
Gout is a form of inflammatory arthritis that develops in some people who have high levels of uric acid in the blood. The acid can form needle-like crystals in a joint and cause sudden, severe episodes of pain, tenderness, redness, warmth and swelling.
I have no idea, just was going off my internet symptom searches and feedback from doctor back then. You very well could be right. As an aside, I haven’t had that happen again since that time. I still can’t believe how excruciatingly painful it was. Weirdly so.
Check out the "anyone into fisting" thread......you might have some luck in there.
Judge Smails
Footballguy
Our pool guy had it. Could barely walk. Turns out he had eaten breakfast, lunch and dinner, every meal, at Carl’s Jr. - FOR TWO YEARS. I guess that’s not good for you.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
boots11234
Footballguy
I stopped drinking. Have only had it once in the last 3 years. Tomatoes did it for me. Read that tomatoes can cause flairs. Ate a boatload of them when they were ripe in my garden this year, few days later BAM! Gout. Awful disease.
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Well, Im so glad I found this forum. Hope someone finds this as useful as I did!
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nevsachristin
Footballguy
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Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
FYI colchicine has recently been found (in the COLCOT and LoDoCo 2 trials) to help with heart disease due to its anti-inflammatory properties.
heckmanm
Footballguy
Gives me the squirts around the time it calms down the gout flare up. That’s how I know when to stop taking it.
AndyJackson
Footballguy
I got rid of my Gout by dropping processed food from my diet and opting for an all-natural diet. I had been taking medications for long, but nothing worked out until I found iahas.com where I learned how Ayurveda could help you treat Gout. I also got great ideas about some recipes that are enriched with therapeutic herbs and spices. Now I am much better.
pantherclub
Footballguy
prednisone
