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I know a guy who has it, and it's no fun.
I've heard that it improves as the years go on, and can disappear.
They used to say you should avoid offal and kidneys, liver etc., rich food. Then, when it got politically incorrect they totally denied this. Now they're back to admitting it can aggravate the situation.
So no pates.
Please grill that doctor.
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It's best to medically treat it. While it can sometiems clear up, other times it doesn't and gets worse and even cause damage.
There's medicine for this (pretty sure it's all prescribed, no over-the-counter) now that can get rid of it.
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Uric acid, I believe.
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Jan 23, 2015 - 1:45 PM
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Tall Guy
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Oblicno, former respected and distinguished member of this board, has seen this thread whilst a-lurking, and wishes me to pass on his comments.
He says:
I've had it since i was 22. For 17 years. It's horrific. from May to November this year i had a limp every day. I have to take 300mg of Allopurinol every day. If i didn't take it i'd probably be dead. No amount of healthy eating works to get my uric acid level down. It's naturally too high. i eat and drink in moderation but try and avoid, sushi, red meats and a few other things. Different things affect different people.
I sometimes have to take teva-indomethacin for gout and osteo-arthritis, which gives me side effects like migraines and vomiting and make me pass out, so are basically not an option anymore.
I get gout mostly in both feet, but also the knees, hands, achilles, wrists and elbows - sometimes all at the same time. I've had it badly 4 times where i was basically housebound for weeks and in so much agony i actually saw stars and vomited. From a pain in my leg. The pulse of blood passing through the veins in my leg made me wince in pain. And a breath of air would make you scream. Actually scream.
At it's worst it felt exactly like a broken toe, with foot bones like powdered glass, with a stone sewed under the ball of your foot, while having boiling water poured over your leg, and having somebody stab a spike in your foot every now and again. But for 24 hours a day for days or weeks at a time.
I lost over a stone and a half, as it surpresses your appetite something awful. And the effect on the rest of your body is that it leaves it in total stress. It doesn't just hurt your foot, everything is affected.
The amount of empathy i receive is zero. Because gout is a funny word, and because people think it is your own fault due to bad diet. Mine is hereditary. And because Henry the 8th had it, the tubby north korean lad and that famous T-Rex (who might be called Sue). Unless someone gets it, then all of a sudden they're like "Ah, now i understand", which has happened with me and a few people at work who were incredibly jokey about the entire thing until they got it and all of a sudden urgently wanted advice.
My sympathy to anyone who has gout, especially if they get it bad and prolonged. It isn't fun and there isn't a cure. And it fecking hurts.
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The amount of empathy i receive is zero. Because gout is a funny word, and because people think it is your own fault due to bad diet.
I knew a chap once who was tested for gout and for another condition, pseudogout, related to calcium, and thankfully, he tested negative and his problem subsided. But I did notice that he attracted lots of jokery at the time about 'the gracious disease' and general slagging off re 18th century stereotypes about port and rich offal, as though it were hilarious. Look at the portrayals in movies like 'Captain Blood', where the sufferer is a figure of fun.
The first component of imagination should be empathy, the basic imagination to think yourself into someone else's shoes. You can't have satire without ethics. Satire without ethics is basic arse-dom. A few TV comics don't know that yet.
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