Thread: #@#!! Gout!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gout

Youre doomed, being a hippy and all.

low-purine diet can help lower the plasma urate level. Avoiding alcohol, high-purine foods, such as meat, fish, dry beans (also lentils and peas), mushrooms, spinach, asparagus, and cauliflower can lower plasma urate levels

Al

Hi Noel

I get or used to get gout. I take Colgout. I take one .5 gram tablet each night and and one in the morning about three times a week.

I used to get diarrhea until I reduced the morning tablet down to three times a week.

Need a doc prescription for it.

Watson,
my SWMBO was on chemo for a while and this particular drug cocktail was known to cause gout in a lot of cases. Oncologist said that there was a drug that could be taken but that daily consumption of pineapple or fresh pineapple juice would in many cases fix the problem.

Mick

Umm... errm... if, by some chance, you happen to be put on Colchicine tablets, any chance of one or two heading my way?

(I was doing some personal research into tetraploidy with certain herbage, but Mr Plod got all upset about it and... well... )

Gasp Al!!!!
No alcohol or Lentils

My dad get gout from oranges and oranges only. God only knows why and he avoids them like the plague.

Thanks Bazza, Mick, Skew..(problem noted)
I've been taking Indocid....which (one tablet) blats me out for a day.....see things.......sleep......mumble....probably not good for me.
I'm about to do another trip to the doc, and I'll suggest a new drug maybe.
Hey Mick......I wonder if I the pineapple juice would be affective in Vodka???
This bout I beleive was caused by eating three bananas....haven't had a banana for years....and that was the only dietary change I've had.

Originally Posted by watson

................Hey Mick......I wonder if I the pineapple juice would be affective in Vodka???..........

Dunno, I reckon if you had a dozen or so stiff ones you probably wouldn't care though , until the next morning of course.

Mick

My old man had gout and used a drug called Zyloprim. It worked for him without side effects.

My foreman in the Open Cut used to swear by the liberal application of Stout as a gout remedy.

Mind you, I never did manage to work out whether it actually eased it or whether 'twas just a case of so many stubbies and he didn't care...

Thanks for the link Grunt...more fodder for the saw-bones.

I've suffered from Gout on-and-off for years - take Zyloprim and haven't had any problems for years now. In my case there is a family history of gout on Mum's side (women very rarely get it) and I seem to have mushrooms as a trigger, and only European type ones at that.

'Zyloprim' is just a brand name and is based on stuff called 'Allopurinol' - there are several generic/alternatives out there. Colchicine is a very old fashioned anti-gout medication that is known for causing dia...the runs, which is why they go for allopurinol if you continue to have problems.

There is also a tendency for medico's to assume 'Gout' in men when it is just garden variety arthritis - gout has easy, standardised tests and readily available medication, arthritis is 'too hard', and both seem to 'go away' after a few weeks (actually just waiting for you to get complacent before giving you another hammering).

I had regular bouts of gout, but have been on glucosamine sulphate 1000mg (two per day) for nearly two years. Haven't had an attack for over twelve months.
Jim

Thanks heaps for the medication info fellers!
Forewarned is forearmed when you have to go to the doctors in a rural area like this.
I reckon another week of this and I'll be back on Dancing WIth The Stars!!