Anybody deal with Gout?

[anomaly2]

Time for medication Allopurinol and Indomethacin 50 mg.
Why suffer the pain and wait it out....

[big A]

Bump because I found the cure. Apple Cider Vinegar.

I haven't had a flair up for as long as I have been doing this which is about a year and a half. I was a regular sufferer since I was a teenager.25 years.

The main reason I started ACD was actually to calm down Acid Reflux. Which it did.

Anyways you can Google it to see what the Looney toon Hippeys say or check out what I do.

So at bed time I get a coffee cup and pour a heavy table spoons worth of some ACD then I scoop about half of tbl spoon of natural honey (I get both from community foods) then I put just a little bit of extremely hot water in to melt the honey and stir it all together. Then drink that down. It actually tastes pretty good. I've heard of people just taking the spoon of ACD straight but if you use the strong generic stuff like I do it is way to powerfull.

If you are just starting, you have to do this every day faithfully and continue. It soon turns into routine like taking vitamins.

It's nicer than having Gout

[kvg]

Thanks for the bump! I have a appointment with my doctor Monday to figure out why my elbows, Knees, and feet have been killing me and now I think it's just gout not something worse On my way to get some Apple Cider Vinegar.

[mr2mike]

Originally posted by D_2K
PURE cherry juice. Give it a try.

Originally posted by Dave P
I started reading about the Apple Cider Vinegar remedy. Im pretty skeptical about these sort of things, but I thought what the hell. Why not. Its not like it can get any worse.

4 tbl spoons of ACV (organic)
2 tbl spoons of Honey
8 oz of Warm water.

Cherry juice is better than Dave's remedy for taste but I find the vinegar stuff works better if your toe is mildly sore. Cherries will prevent it.

Found that my trigger isn't red wine or red meat. It's beer. Beer will take me to an outbreak quickly. Did a houseboat bachelor party and tested this out. Knew I'd be drinking a lot and eating red meat on the lake. Brought gatorade and vodka, drank that, ate what I wanted, didn't touch beer and by the end of the weekend I was fine.
This list help me sort of figure out it's the yeast in the beer.
http://www.acumedico.com/purine.htm

[kvg]

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[davidI]

Wow, I didn't realize Gout was so common!

[Ven]

When I got gout I thought I had broken my toe from jumping out of a truck bed earlier that day. Worst pain ever. I made it two days before going to a doctor and it took a lot of convincing to believe the toe wasn't broken. Long before I got gout I had already quit red meats, never was a drinker, and eat fairly clean with very few cheat days.

Anyway I was diagnosed with gout from chronic dehydration. I can actually feel it coming on, usually in the summer months. I get a feeling in my left big toe that I need to crack the joint, and my ankle aches a bit. So I pound the cherry juice, water, and advil, and usually totally fine the next day. Keep you fluids up.

[mr2mike]

Ven: same as youiI can get the warning sign. When I do I get more water going through my system as well.
If it's a bad ache I do my methods above.

[MrSector9]

I get it if I eat/drink to many sugary things with not enough water. pound back a bunch of water and it becomes tolerable and gone in a few days.

[mr2mike]

A great article came across my email on gout and new info about it. Disregard the book pump ad. Here's the link:

https://www.levelshealth.com/blog/wh...how+to+test+it

[ExtraSlow]

Impressive necro-bump

[rage2]

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A great article came across my email on gout and new info about it. Disregard the book pump ad. Here's the link:

https://www.levelshealth.com/blog/wh...how+to+test+it

Interesting article, nothing really new. I've posted about the last paragraph many times, that diet really has a minuscule effect in the grand scheme of things. It's generally accepted, but doctors always go for natural ways instead of prescription, which is the wrong way to approach things, especially if you're levelling at double the high range. You're just wasting time trying. Acceptable range, AB is pretty aggressive in what it defines as normal. Their normal range is 2.375 - 5.542 mg/DL. I targeted right in the middle, and my yearly tests hover around 3.5 to 3.7 thanks to allupurinol.

[mr2mike]

I would agree. But interesting to see they're finally acknowledging sugar or fructose as a driver of high uric acid. Which I've always kind of know for myself anyway.

I'm avg of 2.9mg/DL with Febuxostat.
Did allopurinol for a few years but had significant side effects of easy bruising and pain in arms and eventually legs too.
Very small % get this. Boiled down to a small study I found where people got disruption on blood vessel walls from Allopurinol. Almost like Hemophilia but not to the same extent.
Dropped Allopurinol and in a few months the bruising and pains went away.

[rage2]

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I would agree. But interesting to see they're finally acknowledging sugar or fructose as a driver of high uric acid. Which I've always kind of know for myself anyway.

I'm avg of 2.9mg/DL with Febuxostat.
Did allopurinol for a few years but had significant side effects of easy bruising and pain in arms and eventually legs too.
Very small % get this. Boiled down to a small study I found where people got disruption on blood vessel walls from Allopurinol. Almost like Hemophilia but not to the same extent.
Dropped Allopurinol and in a few months the bruising and pains went away.

Good you found an alternative. Have an uncle who's allergic to everything, non stop gout attacks still, and joints all deteriorated. Basically have to use a walking stand for life and still got a ways to go.

Always happy to hear normal life full gout recovery stories.

[mr2mike]

That's rough. I couldn't imagine always being on edge of when the next 3am gout attack would show up and the joint deterioration is life quality ending. Sorry to hear.

[Kloubek]

I've never actually made the association with sugar before - I've really focused on the red meat more than anything, as I'm not a big boozer and have slightly elevated cholesterol anyway. As chance would have it, I DO have a sweet tooth.

I guess exercise would be another appropriate focus if I wasn't so fucking lazy.

[rage2]

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I guess exercise would be another appropriate focus if I wasn't so fucking lazy.

I dunno how much exercise reduces uric acid production, but exercise sure fucks you over if you're already well into gout attacks. Body fat stores all the excess uric acid, lose weight, that acid comes back into your bloodstream and fuck you over more.

It took me 2 years of keeping my body weight, taking allopurinol and doing just very mild exercise before I could really work on losing weight again. Stop the production first, then remove the uric acid in storage. So glad life is normal now.

[benyl]

I figured out that Sugar was my trigger a few years ago. When I was on Allopurinol, every november my knee started to swell. Halloween candy. My first gout attach was after having a few beers after a long drought of not drinking.

Red meat never affected me.

[Kloubek]

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I dunno how much exercise reduces uric acid production, but exercise sure fucks you over if you're already well into gout attacks. Body fat stores all the excess uric acid, lose weight, that acid comes back into your bloodstream and fuck you over more.

It took me 2 years of keeping my body weight, taking allopurinol and doing just very mild exercise before I could really work on losing weight again. Stop the production first, then remove the uric acid in storage. So glad life is normal now.

Oh, I mean... I'm not lazy guys... I just want to ensure my body doesn't overproduce uric acid. It's all about proper body maintenance, I say...