This started on Saturday afternoon, and as of now, I can still barely walk.

I blame my father. He blames his father, and so on.........

And no, I don't drink Port, or red wine.

Sympathies Colin. I have a friend who had chronic gout for many years, sounds like agony. Someone advised drinking cherry juice..?

Anything to break up those uric acid crystals.

I've tried most remedies James - normally an attack will only last for about 24 hours - but this is day 5 now - can't operate any stomp boxes

ouch.  sorry to hear.  hope you get better soon!

my father has had gout, but I (thankfully) haven't had to deal with it (yet)

Cheers Reece - it is definitely hereditary (in my case), I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Bristol_Jonesey


This started on Saturday afternoon, and as of now, I can still barely walk.

I blame my father. He blames his father, and so on.........

And no, I don't drink Port, or red wine.

I feel your pain. My last attact went from October until mid December. 


Like you -my attacks usually only happen once or twice a year for a few days but this one was the worst ever. 

I am on allpurinol now which suppresses the production of uric acid. So far so good. If your not on allpurinol i would for sure would ask your doctor about getting on it. I plan on this last attack being the last attack. I plan to never let it  happening again, but i gotta eat better, exceercise, eat natural uric acid lowering foods and of course the allpurinol helps. And the medicine isn't that expensive. 

I feel your pain. I know when your in the middle of an attack it feel like it will never stop and of the 3 months of my last attack I probably spent 2 weeks in bed becuase I could put any pressure on the foot. It just wasn't one foot joint... My whole foot was swollen along with my ankle. 


For those of you who don't know what a gout attack feels like at its peak..... Take a 50lb sledge hammer and then  non stop all day ---- have the strongest person your know smash your foot as hard as he can over and over and over again...non stop

That's what it feel like when our white blood cells all gain up againts microscopic uric acid crystals 


I feel your pain bro ....in fact .... I am weeping uncontroably for you

My brother gets severe attacks of it. I used to work for him and 2 or 3 times every year he'd be hobbling in to the office for a few weeks on crutches. It's also known as "The rich mans disease".

I've been getting one particularly scary symptom of it the last few years but it hasn't developed yet that I'm aware of. You don't always get joint pain, you can get kidney stones from it too. I even asked my doctor about the symptom and he just shook his head and said he never heard of such a thing, so I looked it up online and found it in 5 seconds.

Hope you get some meds and they start helping soon. It's not a fun thing to have.

Aww that sucks!

I only get mild random issues with gout but never that severe. Garlic in large doses is very good, cleans out the system, removes a lot of those free radicals. Roasted garlic bread with herb (parsley and a touch or oregano) is nice, have it everyday, the herbs counteract the body odor. Oregano is also good for ya'. 

Hope you get well soon! 

2001 was my first and only episode and I hope I never have another!  Hopped around for 3 days.  Couldn't even lay the bed sheet over my foot.
 
I feel for you!  Hope you get to feeling and moving around better real soon!

Sounds painful....

hope it clears up soon.