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anyone have gout?

shootuadealshootuadeal Member Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭✭
edited June 2008 in General Discussion
when you have a gout outbreak does it go away on its own or do you HAVE to take pills?
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  • kissgoodnightkissgoodnight Member Posts: 4,063 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    eat cherries. the gout wonder drug
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  • MIKE WISKEYMIKE WISKEY Member Posts: 10,046 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    HAD IT WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, EAT LESS RED MEAT (NO MORE RARE STEAKS), DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE CHERRIES BUT WTH THEY TASTE GOOD[:D]
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  • GuvamintCheeseGuvamintCheese Member Posts: 38,932 ✭
    edited November -1
    Once you have a flare up, you can start on cherry juice but to get rid of the pain you will need to get some Indocin (indomethocin) right away. Go!
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  • fishmastyfishmasty Member Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had a episode with it a couple of months ago,.. OUCHHHHHHHH!!!![V]If you do a search on here you can read all about some really great advice I got from the folks on here. Cherry juice helps a lot. I got a shot of some kind of steroids and prednisolone (??) pills along with a few pain pills. I had eaten a bunch of walnuts and that is what triggered mine, I think everyone's trigger is different.

    Good Luck and I feel your Pain[:(]
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  • hslaterprycehslaterpryce Member Posts: 927 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Eat cherries or blueberries OR the juices of same. Whatever you do DON'T take Asprin!!! That makes it worse...found out the hard way on that!
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  • Blade SlingerBlade Slinger Member Posts: 5,891
    edited November -1
    Yep! and look up foods that triger the attacks after taking meds to get the swelling down.Hope you dont like manhattans, thats the one I miss the most.[;)]
    quote:Originally posted by cartod
    Once you have a flare up, you can start on cherry juice but to get rid of the pain you will need to get some Indocin (indomethocin) right away. Go!
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  • coledigger4coledigger4 Member Posts: 826 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I first got that crap the doctor gave me a huge list of stuff to avoid. It was impossible to follow! My experimenting has indicated that Miller beer is one thing guaranteed to start mine. So far, no other beer has caused it. Sometimes it seems to me like stress causes it to flare up. I do drink a lot of water and that might be helping since I haven't had a bad case for quite some time, thank God! When I do feel an attack coming on, I take a double dose of Allopurinal and then one a day until it goes away. During this time, I will buy a few cans of pie cherries, with or without syrup, and a bag of fresh cherries if they are in season. I also have tons of pain pills available due to severe back problems to assist in case I don't catch it in time. I feel sorry for anyone that ends up with this crap too!
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  • shootuadealshootuadeal Member Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    i keep hearing allopurininal, is that an otc or prescription?
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  • coledigger4coledigger4 Member Posts: 826 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Prescription.
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  • 11BravoCrunchie11BravoCrunchie Member Posts: 33,423 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    100% Cherry Juice is what Dad uses when his flairs up.
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  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have some left over from a tile job in the kitchen
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
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  • TfloggerTflogger Member Posts: 3,399 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Cherries and don't eat fatty meat. Red wine bothers some people, but not me. BBQ is beef brisket now, a fish fry needs to be cooked quick in clean oil. Sucks getting old.
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  • sharpshooter039sharpshooter039 Member Posts: 5,897 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    once you get it cleared up keep up with what you eat so you can find your trigger,mines nuts,all of the affect my gout but if I eat sunflower kernels I will not be able to walk for a week [}:)]
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  • VinhlongVet71VinhlongVet71 Member Posts: 4,605
    edited November -1
    Yes sir! Your right about that,,,, everybodys trigger is different. It took me a few years to finally figure mine out. SARDINES/SHELLFISH no more sardines or shellfish and I haven't had a flare up in a couple of years now. I do know the pain,,, it will get in the big toe of my left foot every time. I do know the pain,,, pomegranite juice is good too. I didn't see that mentioned. Find your TRIGGER! Think back to about three or four days before it started 'coming on'. You must have eaten something that you don't ordinarily eat. It may not take three or four days though,,, I could eat a can of sardines with mustard and soda crackers right now,,, but come Monday morning I would be in a world of pain. Find your trigger and then you can manage it.quote:Originally posted by fishmasty
    I had a episode with it a couple of months ago,.. OUCHHHHHHHH!!!![V]If you do a search on here you can read all about some really great advice I got from the folks on here. Cherry juice helps a lot. I got a shot of some kind of steroids and prednisolone (??) pills along with a few pain pills. I had eaten a bunch of walnuts and that is what triggered mine, I think everyone's trigger is different.

    Good Luck and I feel your Pain[:(]
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  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I get gout, but it is rare and the thought of the pain scares me to death.

    The triggers for me are;
    Stress, dehydration, fine red wines, shrimp eaten to excess, I think sardines are one too.

    Gout sucks!
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  • shootuadealshootuadeal Member Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    first of all i will clear the air a bit about me. i am 27 years old. i do drink alot of beer, i live in north dakota after all. i do eat alot of meat. i had my first outbreak about 2 months ago, doc put me on prednisone for the pain and gout went away after 5 days. i have not changed my diet or drinking and all of the sudden it came back. my diet consist of me never eating breakfast, good dinner and supper half the time. i am 205 pounds and a wrestling coach(still wrestling a little today),i farm and do alot of throwing bags of seed around/delivering oil barrels/cleaning grain bins,etc not very much overwieght(maybe 15 pounds all in the gut[:)], i just am mad that this situation happened to me[:(!]. i could understand if i was in my forties or something(not that there is anything wrong with people in there 40s but i think i am too young for this crap already).
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  • gunnut505gunnut505 Member Posts: 10,290 ✭
    edited November -1
    Start yourself a maintenance program of red cherry fruit extract capsules (16X strength) available at your local health food store (them hippies come in handy now & then); drink lotsa water, loosen your boots every now & then during the day(constricting blood flow causes the Uric Acid crystals to pool in your feet/toes/ankles), when you feel a pinprick alongside your foot it's a sign of onset.
    Gout is caused by overproduction of Uric Acid crystals in your bloodstream, they turn into little pointy "cigars", and collect wherever the blood flow lets them.
    I've had it twice before, and the weight of a single sheet while sleeping is unbearable! I started a regimine of 2-3 capsules each day, especially in the Spring, and I haven't even had a flare up in almost 3 years!
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  • Wolf.Wolf. Member Posts: 2,223 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
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    No, you don't have to take pills when you have a gout flareup. However, when the mother of all gout attacks hits you, if you don't take something for it, shooting yourself in the head will become an attractive option.

    Prednisone??? Well now, that's real good! Prednisone will do about as much good for gout as you dancing around a big rock, nude under the full moon, shouting obscenities at the devil, then killing a chicken and burning the feathers while muttering various incantations from old heavy metal rock songs. Where'd you find this "doctor"? I guess he thinks the prednisone, a steroid drug, will reduce inflamation. Yeah? Well maybe, but you can see how well it worked. Five days is enough time for the gout to run its course and go away on its own. He really doesn't know how to treat gout....really he doesn't.

    Naproxen Sodium (naproxen) is a good med for gout, but not the best. Naproxen is another drug in the family of non-steroidal anti-inflamatory drugs, or NSAIDs, but has a higher success rate with gout than acetomenophine or the like. Naproxen can be had by Rx dosages of 500mg and up (if you have insurance, to this way), but one popular over-the-counter (OTC) brand of naproxen is called Aleve. Just take 800-1000 milligrams of it about every eight hours for flare-ups.

    Get your doctor to prescribe colchecine. If you are interested in getting the whole spiel, send me an email.
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  • catpealer111catpealer111 Member Posts: 10,695
    edited November -1
    I think I might have it. Whenever I drink heavy beer or eat foods with a lot of whole grains in them my knees and ankles feel inflamed and ache like hell. I usually let it pass but, 100% cherry juice seams to help.
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  • GuvamintCheeseGuvamintCheese Member Posts: 38,932 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by shootuadeal
    i keep hearing allopurininal, is that an otc or prescription?
    Alopurinol is to prevent gout attacks, once you have the flare up, its no use taking it.
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  • cpermdcpermd Member Posts: 5,273 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Prescription Colchicine stops the attacks within six hours.
    But you will usually get diarrhea.

    My friends with gout have standing refills for colchicine, indocin and hydrocodone.

    CP in Bonanza
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  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Wolf.
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    No, you don't have to take pills when you have a gout flareup. However, when the mother of all gout attacks hits you, if you don't take something for it, shooting yourself in the head will become an attractive option.

    Prednisone??? Well now, that's real good! Prednisone will do about as much good for gout as you dancing around a big rock, nude under the full moon, shouting obscenities at the devil, then killing a chicken and burning the feathers while muttering various incantations from old heavy metal rock songs. Where'd you find this "doctor"? I guess he thinks the prednisone, a steroid drug, will reduce inflamation. Yeah? Well maybe, but you can see how well it worked. Five days is enough time for the gout to run its course and go away on its own. He really doesn't know how to treat gout....really he doesn't.

    Naproxen Sodium (naproxen) is a good med for gout, but not the best. Naproxen is another drug in the family of non-steroidal anti-inflamatory drugs, or NSAIDs, but has a higher success rate with gout than acetomenophine or the like. Naproxen can be had by Rx dosages of 500mg and up (if you have insurance, to this way), but one popular over-the-counter (OTC) brand of naproxen is called Aleve. Just take 800-1000 milligrams of it about every eight hours for flare-ups.

    Get your doctor to prescribe colchecine. If you are interested in getting the whole spiel, send me an email.


    Indomethacin is my med of choice; colchecine makes me sicker than death itself and gives you pure liquid diarrhea so bad you will realize the * is indeed totally water proof. . The Vicodin will deal with the top edge of the pain, letting you sleep and rest.

    I had my first attack at 24. Your diet and beer drinking without adequate water consumption could be an issue.
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