I can't have gout; I'm fucking 24!

Port gives you gout?

Gout is caused by excess iron, right?

Another horribly painful condition is shingles. Large doses of Vitamin E (1600 IU 2x/day plus topical application of E oil) will usually stop it in its tracks and make it go away.

Carpal tunnel? Vitamin B6. Start with 100mg/day. If no relief after one week, increase to 200mg/day. If no relief after another week, increase to 300mg/day. You can go up to about 1000mg/day - but I've never known anyone who needed to take anything like that much to get pain free. Once the pain is gone, continue at 100mg/day as maintenance. Several folks I've told about this have been facing imminent surgery and didn't have to get cut after starting on B6... (I regularly approach total strangers whom I have heard say the words "carpal tunnel" and give them this spiel. I can't stand for people to be needlessly in pain - and to have needless surgery. The docs don't need the money and nobody needs to risk general anesthesia when something else works better...)

And Hopkins to thread.

Someone gave me a magazine from 1983 last night that has instructions on how to build and embroider your own gout stool.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/The_gout_james_gillray.jpg

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I'm going to start taking larger doses of omega-3s (fish oil, Christopher Eggs, keep eating fish, etc.) to see if the low-level symptoms I usually get rid of with Aleve will disappear. I would like to increase my water intake, but I might float away.

I've quit drinking and smoking completely, but neither seems to have had an effect yet.

i shared that something happened to me, so my story is here, very very painful:

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Layoff the meats, added sugar, and most fruit juices. Recommend these vids from Dr. Greger:
Miocene Meteorites and Uric Acid
Flesh and Fructose
Apple Juice May Be Worse Than Sugar Water
Gout Treatment with a Cherry on Top
Treating Gout with Cherry Juice

On the bright side Bee, you're at much lower risk of Parkinson's: 1, 2, 3

i have switched from cokes to vitamin water, now i'm wondering if i should lay off those as well?

thanks for those video, going to watch them now.

If you have the non-diet kind, the first two ingredients in Vitamin Water are crystalline fructose and cane sugar (50% fructose). When tested, Vitamin Water had 4 g fructose/100 ml (85% E from fructose) vs. 7.2 g / 100 ml for Coke (65% E from fructose). Overall, a 20 oz Vitamin Water would have about the same fructose as a 12 oz Coke.

wow, i really didn't think you would know, thanks.

i'm not really fat but overweight a bit. i got gout from alcohol, pure and simple as i'm pretty good with everything else everyone has been telling me and reading about. so i quite drinking and i do believe i should be fine going forward.

I had some gout flareups a while ago. I seriously curtailed my consumption of beef and beer for a while, but the main thing that helped was a prescription anti-inflammatory (indocin). Worked immediately and I've had no recurrence in 6 months.

Beef, seafood, alcohol in general but especially beer - these aren't things I can realistically live without. Reducing them is feasible but to cut them out completely would be to deny myself too much joy.

I am no longer 24 but I think I might have gout, or rather my doctor does. Was in fucking agony last night, couldn't sleep, and today I'm like Hopalong Fuckin' Cassidy. Barely had I hobbled into his surgery and he had it diagnosed - I mean, do I look like gouty or what? I suppose it's a blessing my tennis elbow - or rather tennis elbows, at one time I had it in both arms - has cleared up or else I may as well have retired from life.

Uloric is a godsend. Allopurinol did nothing for me, but 80mg Uloric (generic from India, I can't afford it in the US) means I haven't had even a light flare since two or three weeks into taking it, regardless of what I eat.

It took almost a year to get the dose right but Allopurinol worked for me in the end, haven't had an attack since; it was getting pretty bad though, like really severe 10-day attacks coming on about once a month. I still treasure ungoutiness on a regular basis, while hanging on to my supply of colchicine just in case.

(I found colchicine would make an attack go away in around 36 hours if I caught it early enough, and that's what made the year trying to get onto allopurinol properly bearable.)

had this for the first time last year, and the swelling was out of this world, mostly because I didn't realize drinking and red meat help cause gout among other things, and was trying to 'drink away the pain' one night (lol). i had to get anti-inflammatory drugs to be able to walk properly again.

drank beer two days in a row this weekend, feel the beginnings of a flare-up. sigh. time to pump the brakes.

Febucip 40mg every other day has kept me from getting a flare up in ~5 years. Allopurinol did nothing.

I think I got it from genetics and chronic dehydration. I had an 18 month long sinus infection and the student health center’s solution when I was 21 was to sell me 180 count bottles of pseudoephedrine every two weeks.

I did lose a lot of weight though.

so I beat my latest bout with prednisone, but had some residual leftover inflammation (nothing serious) and am worried about it being a recurring thing, so been trying to get prescribed allopurinol and have the uric acid test. I go to a practice that took over for my old doctor who retired and they're a bit clownish but it's easy to get appointments quickly and I haven't had bad care so I had been reluctant to change.

so anyway the doc really wants to avoid that for some reason, and wanted to give me colchicine instead for the residual inflammation, and only wanted to give me allopurinol if that didn't work. I reluctantly agreed, but then I get to the pharmacy who tells me I have to stop taking my statin while taking this or else the two together could kill me due to myotoxicity. which my doctor didn't say a thing about. allopurinol has zero interactions and is more of a preventive drug. at this point the residual inflammation is tolerable compared to uncontrolled cholesterol!

boy howdy I am pissed. I'm only with this one doctor because six months ago, the other one in my practice was simply too busy to see me and they keep sending me to this other one, but after this I'm going back to her and eventually finding anotehr practice.