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From: Graham J on 27 Jun 2008 16:04 "Gareth Slee" <gax.slee(a)ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:1ij7o8z.92wggs1oamny4N%gax.slee(a)ntlworld.com... >I don't care it's OT because after today I'm thoroghly pissed off!!! > > First off I've been virtually bedridden for the last week with acute > gout in the knee. Gout is bloody horrible. Everyone thinks it's a great > laugh well let me tell you it ain't. Have you found anything that cures it? I have a high uric acid level so any knee or foot pain is immediately diagnosed as gout. But the recognised palliative (colchichine) only gives me diarrhoea (the recognised side effect after 36 hours) and other painkillers (ibuprofen, paracetamol, aspirin, etc.) are ineffective and only risk aggravating an existing high blood pressure condition. The long term recommendation is Allopurinol to reduce the uric acid level. There is also a view that I have Ankylosing Spondylitis (blood indicators, fused sacroiliac joints, iritis, etc) so the pain is sometimes attributed to that. I have found that sometimes steroids do reduce the symptoms dramatically over a couple of days. None of the medics I've seen are happy with this as a palliative measure, but it makes life possible again! -- Graham J
From: Gareth Slee on 27 Jun 2008 16:08 Graham J <graham(a)nospam.zen.co.uk> wrote: > Have you found anything that cures it? I haven't found anything that cures it. Allopurinol just made me ill so I gave up on that. I take painkillers when I get an attack and grin an bear it... I'm trying changes to my diet to see if I can identify any triggers but not much success so far... -- Am I the only Gareth Slee? http://garethslee.com
From: Peter Ceresole on 27 Jun 2008 17:04 Gareth Slee <gax.slee(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: > I haven't found anything that cures it. Allopurinol just made me ill so > I gave up on that. I'm lucky; I take Allopurinol every day, it doesn't make me ill, and it dramatically reduces the times that I get gout. But it is amazing how painful gout can be; it feels as though somebody is playing a blow torch on the joint... > I take painkillers when I get an attack and grin an bear it... I find that ibuprofen does help, but paracetemol seems to help hardly at all. > > I'm trying changes to my diet to see if I can identify any triggers but > not much success so far... I tried that- went to seee s specialist and got a list of foods to avoid. Top of the list was shellfish. Well sod that, I love shell fish too much. And anyway, following all the edvice seemed to make little real difference. So I've settled for a (remaining) life time of allopurinol. -- Peter
From: JohnB on 27 Jun 2008 17:06 Gareth Slee wrote: > Graham J <graham(a)nospam.zen.co.uk> wrote: > >> Have you found anything that cures it? > > I haven't found anything that cures it. Allopurinol just made me ill so > I gave up on that. That's a bummer Gareth because allopurinol is the only thing that "cures" gout. It blocks the last enzyme in the pathway that converts purines into uric acid - the molecule that crystallises out from the blood at high concentration as shards of "glass" into your joint spaces. I have been on it for years and gout free for all of that time. The next best thing for me were the NSAID's (anti-inflammatory) - Diclofenac being the best for me. Definitely reduced swelling and inflammation and reduced the pain - I topped 'em up with Ibuprofen too (which is also anti-inflammatory). They will eat through your stomach wall though if you don't take them with food. Whiskey helps too ! -- JohnB
From: Gareth Slee on 27 Jun 2008 17:19
Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > I tried that- went to seee s specialist and got a list of foods to > avoid. Top of the list was shellfish. Well sod that, I love shell fish > too much. And anyway, following all the edvice seemed to make little > real difference. So I've settled for a (remaining) life time of > allopurinol. I can't take much more of this so I'm going to try Allopurinol again and hope to hell it works. PLEASE!!! -- Am I the only Gareth Slee? http://garethslee.com |