Thread: #@#!! Gout!

After all this stuff, AlexS has probably posted the best advice......not that I'm medically inclned.......nor under the rules of this forum should we be.......
Its been an interesting thread.........and I'll just sit and wait for the next onslaught.......joking!!
I'll just eat/drink what I normally do......don't want a case of the sh...ts as an indicator that the cure is working.
But at least a feller knows he is not alone!

I suffer from g'out, which is basically, I touch SWMBO on the leg and she yells Get'OUT of it,( G'OUT ). Sorry old joke, shouldn't trivialise the subject, couple of mates have it, reckon it's bloody painful. My sympathies to anyone that suffers from it.

Time to start experimenting with Lentil Wine, new taste sensation

Bit late in the piece - I found Colgout gave me the ?????

I found Allopurinol excellent. There again, mine is not triggered by diet, (perhaps red wine, - more experimenting required), so once I got the puric acid levels in my blood down, and the crystals redissolved out of my joints, I haven't had a serious attack for ages (and haven't taken my meds for 12 months).

Gout, the good thing is that unless you are one in ten million you wont ever suffer from rheumatoid arthritis. I for years was being treated for one or the other because all the doc's said that the two don't co-exist, however it seems tat there have been a handfull of cases worldwide over the past ten years.

Anyhow that wasn't the question. First thing rather than bother with your g.p. get an appointment to see a rheumatologist, in most cases he/she would posibly prescribe allopurinol which as has already been stated comes under many names. allopurinol is not to treat active gout but is very effective in prevention. Once gout is active treatment will depend aparrt from other factors on the severity of the attack and can vary from mild anelgesics or ibruprofen (oraly or injected), in severe attacks I have been hospitalised for up to five days recieving morphine - but that was the very worst, believe me.

But after many years of discomfort I can say that with the help of a good rheumatologist and continued use of alopurinol it is under some sort of control.

Denn