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the day after the superbowl i woke up and the tops of both feet hurt really bad.? two days later i couldn't walk to the bathroom.? i have had the gout numerous times in the big toe or my elbow.? could always deal with it taking advil and still was able to go to work.? this is the first attack i have had in about three years.? after three days of not being able to do anything i wound up in the emergency room and then in the hospital for five days.? the uric acid levels were normal or below normal.? but the arthritic dr. said it was the gout by the way my feet looked.? i was on pain killers and predisone and blood pressure meds.? when i came home walking but not normal, i was on predisone tappering meds for about two weeks and colciicene.? the symptoms all but went away.? so i quit the colcicens.? and now the swelling and pain is back in my right anclkle and foot.? this is very depressing.? i haven't eaten any red meat or alcohol in over a month.? if this doesn't get better i will have to go back to my dr.??for something different i guess.? i only have the VA medical so it isn't that easy to talk to your dr.
when you have the gout all you want is to not have pain.? and when you don't have the gout you don't think about it.? anyway thats my gout story maybe someone can give me some advise.? thanks mike
Make sure the “something different” is a lifetime of allopurinol 300 mg., every day “til death do you part.”
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Keep some colchicine on hand for flares until the allopurinol kicks in. You might need it you might not.
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Don't torture yourself with diet adjustments, they are just a leftover from the Dark Ages (i.e., before allopurinol was discovered?a half century?ago.) Since you found out that no meat and no alcohol was useless ,move on.
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VA should have no trouble doling out the allopurinol…don;t let them hose around with 100 mg. dosage.
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