Help, I think I might have "Gout"

[GypsyRose]

you need to go to a doctor for gout?

With any pain, anywhere in your body, you need to go to a doctor if the pain does not "go away". The cause of pain is to alert you to the fact that something is wrong with your body! Get it diagnosed correctly, then medicated correctly and you could avoid huge expense and suffering down the line. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it ...!

 

[Thor]

Anyone using puricos, does it work?

How do you get it, what's the cost?

 

[TheChamp]

It could be Athritis.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Gout you should feel in the big toe first rather than the ankle.

So I doubt it’s gout.

 

[Venomous]

no hot throbbing pain - it's just when I bend my foot upwards? (like when your foot bends when you walk)

Go see a doctor.
Midddle of the foot, not in ankle or toe joints are not likely to be gout.

 

[JayM]

Anyone using puricos, does it work?

How do you get it, what's the cost?

On it permanently, and yes it works. Last gout attack was about 8 years ago (I was getting at least one attack a month). At the time I tried drastically changing diet but that didn't really help much.

It's cheap (about R100/month) but you will need a prescription as it's schedule 4.

 

[Thor]

On it permanently, and yes it works. Last gout attack was about 8 years ago (I was getting at least one attack a month). At the time I tried drastically changing diet but that didn't really help much.

It's cheap (about R100/month) but you will need a prescription as it's schedule 4.

Sweet, thank you.
sucks penis to have it, grandfather and dad had it so now me too

Never thought I would stay at home because of toe pain, but good God I swear I want to switch to being a woman and give birth just so I can compare the pain.


This is literally the single most painful experience I have ever had in life and I have broken many bones in my young life.

 

[JayM]

Sweet, thank you.
sucks penis to have it, grandfather and dad had it so now me too

Never thought I would stay at home because of toe pain, but good God I swear I want to switch to being a woman and give birth just so I can compare the pain.


This is literally the single most painful experience I have ever had in life and I have broken many bones in my young life.

Yeah it's no joke. I've passed a kidney stone before, and that was a 9/10. My first gout attack was easily 8.5 on the pain scale.

Puricos takes a while to work, so get some Colchicine in the meantime - it gets rid of the attack fast (at the expense of stomach cramps and explosive diarrhea for a bit). No script required for Colchicine.

 

[Aquila ka Hecate]

Sweet, thank you.
sucks penis to have it, grandfather and dad had it so now me too

Never thought I would stay at home because of toe pain, but good God I swear I want to switch to being a woman and give birth just so I can compare the pain.


This is literally the single most painful experience I have ever had in life and I have broken many bones in my young life.

I am a woman who has given birth.
I am a woman who has experienced gout.

The two are not comparable. With gout, I was still walking on my own two legs the whole time.

 

[Alton Turner Blackwood]

Anyone using puricos, does it work?

How do you get it, what's the cost?

You're in Tygervalley, aren't you? Take a drive here https://goo.gl/maps/j7Ez7r4PszP2 and ask for a Gout Pack. Its about 9 tablets that you need to down at once (I usually skip the pain tablets).

In about 4 to 5 hours you'll forget you had gout.

Cost is R25. I buy 4 or 5 at a time because this motherfscker (yes, I'm nursing an attack as we speak) strikes any fscking time!

 

[Thor]

With gout, I was still walking on my own two legs the whole time.

then you had a mild attack. I need a krik.

 

[Thor]

I hate pills, I don't take any, but I think I will need some. So will get a gout pack and then schedule a visit to the doctor for a prescription.

@JayM do you know when it can be classified as chronic, would like to get a long-term prescription so I can use puricos into the future an not have to panic when I wake up 2am wanting snap at and kill everything in sight.

From my limited personal experience, but through the vicarious experience of family it would appear once you have this there is no going back.

You're in Tygervalley, aren't you? Take a drive here https://goo.gl/maps/j7Ez7r4PszP2 and ask for a Gout Pack. Its about 9 tablets that you need to down at once (I usually skip the pain tablets).

In about 4 to 5 hours you'll forget you had gout.

Cost is R25. I buy 4 or 5 at a time because this motherfscker (yes, I'm nursing an attack as we speak) strikes any fscking time!

 

[JayM]

do you know when it can be classified as chronic, would like to get a long-term prescription so I can use puricos into the future an not have to panic when I wake up 2am wanting snap at and kill everything in sight.

It was relatively cheap, so I didn't bother getting it onto chronic with Discovery. I just get my doc to renew every 6 months with the rest of my regular medication.

From my limited personal experience, but through the vicarious experience of family it would appear once you have this there is no going back.

That is correct. If you stop taking puricos, your uric acid levels will start rising within days to weeks, and you'll be having gout attacks again.

 

[Slootvreter]

Idiot for asking medical advise on a tech forum



Anyway, Panamor and colchicine as soon as you feel it coming.

If you have more than two bouts of gout in a year, a doctor might prescribe Puricos. I'm on that currently. Don't bother with diet/lifestyle changes, it will take years to eliminate what triggers it for you, unless you're VERY lucky. Some people are simply predisposed to get gout. Wine and meat is a myth. There is little risk of gout being dangerous, but in the very long run, it can cause joint damage.

Just note, Puricos is also not a miracle cure. It lowers the uric acid levels in your blood, a process which takes time, and is not without side effects. You might get gout even worse afterwords once of twice, but there is a reason for it. It will pass.

 

[Thor]

That is correct. If you stop taking puricos, your uric acid levels will start rising within days to weeks, and you'll be having gout attacks again.

FML.

I wish there was more research on this, it seems to me to be a lot more about genetics than anything else, I don't fully buy the diet thing unless its extreme circumstances where someone ate red meat by the kilograms every day and drank red wine every day and had fish for breakfast.

Because if I look at my diet, I eat once per day and then it's either egg or mince or chicken or pasta and some months I will eat sushi (which is the only thing I can think to play a role but so does my friends and they are fine).

Anyway, guess I will need to start reading about it and understand this condition.

 

[JayM]

FML.

I wish there was more research on this, it seems to me to be a lot more about genetics than anything else, I don't fully buy the diet thing unless its extreme circumstances where someone ate red meat by the kilograms every day and drank red wine every day and had fish for breakfast.

Because if I look at my diet, I eat once per day and then it's either egg or mince or chicken or pasta and some months I will eat sushi (which is the only thing I can think to play a role but so does my friends and they are fine).

Anyway, guess I will need to start reading about it and understand this condition.

Yeah modifying diet to treat gout is not practical - you have to make massive changes, and many purine rich foods are actually good for you. So your diet will be slightly better in terms of reducing gout attacks, but overall less healthy (as well as far more bland).

If you don't want to take puricos permanently, you can also try alkaline powder which does help a lot. It tastes vile though - I'd rather just take puricos (which is usually well tolerated and has been used for treating gout for many decades).

 

[Thor]

Something I thought about earlier today if uric acid has a ph of around 5.7 then surely one must just focus on increasing the ph of your body and bicarbonate of soda has a ph of 9 so in theory if you dose with that (small amounts) daily then in time you should be able to higher the ph level in your bloodstream.

You know what would be an interesting test?
If all of us with gout (Excluding those on medication) can take a ph test, my hypothesis is that gout suffers have a lower ph than those without it.

If you don't want to take puricos permanently, you can also try alkaline powder which does help a lot. It tastes vile though - I'd rather just take puricos (which is usually well tolerated and has been used for treating gout for many decades).

 

[JayM]

Something I thought about earlier today if uric acid has a ph of around 5.7 then surely one must just focus on increasing the ph of your body and bicarbonate of soda has a ph of 9 so in theory if you dose with that (small amounts) daily then in time you should be able to higher the ph level in your bloodstream.

You know what would be an interesting test?
If all of us with gout (Excluding those on medication) can take a ph test, my hypothesis is that gout suffers have a lower ph than those without it.

I tried taking citro soda for a while as well, and it definitely helped. I did notice an increase in blood pressure when taking it, so I stopped.

 

[Alton Turner Blackwood]

Something I thought about earlier today if uric acid has a ph of around 5.7 then surely one must just focus on increasing the ph of your body and bicarbonate of soda has a ph of 9 so in theory if you dose with that (small amounts) daily then in time you should be able to higher the ph level in your bloodstream.

You know what would be an interesting test?
If all of us with gout (Excluding those on medication) can take a ph test, my hypothesis is that gout suffers have a lower ph than those without it.

I don't know hey. Its also recommended that you drink lemon juice and this is why I drink a few drops of this mixed with water after any meal at work.

 

[Thor]

I think that is a myth, it's ph is like 2.3? So it should, in fact, make it worse.
^Assuming ph plays as big a role as I currently think it does.

I don't know hey. Its also recommended that you drink lemon juice and this is why I drink a few drops of this mixed with water after any meal at work.