Anyone Ever Deal With Gout

[sireland67]

I eat a fruit cocktail with cherries, for breakfast every morning, it seems to help.

 

[69FBCuda]

I like the tart cherry and celery seed combo supplement. Also tossing in MSM and white willow. Thanks for the calcium mention. Have to look at blood work and see what number that's at.

I am using the Solaray Tart Cherry Celery Seed 620 mg supplement also. Really seems to be helping. I will look at the MSM. Calcium deposits in the joints form a diamond shaped crystal vs purines forming a sphere shaped crystal and I'm sure just as painful. "It usually affects one joint at a time, but sometimes it may affect several joints at once."

Good article
Pseudogout (CPPD) | Cleveland Clinic

 

[gzig5]

I've got both gout and Pseudogout. I take Allopurinol daily and haven't had a flare up for a long time. Tart cherry juice is always in the fridge. I have Colchicine on hand to help with flare ups but knock on wood, I haven't needed it in quite a while. My quality of life has improved considerably since getting the diagnosis and going on the medicine. As long as I take it easy on the dark beers and other booze, I'm able to eat everything I like in moderation. I can still have an IPA but only one instead of the six pack. If you think you have it, get to a rheumatologist and get it figured out. The Allopurinol prescription is cheap.

 

[sireland67]

Beer and red meat and shell-fish is what makes mine swell up.
I have found diet takes care of mine.
Just this week I had a flare up, I know exactly what caused it, 4 day weekend, went camping, ate really bad, and excess beer.
Tuesday I could hardly walk into work, toe swelled up.
Started eating salads, stayed away from burgers and steak.
I am fine now, just a one day reminder not to be stupid!

 

[gzig5]

I am fine now, just a one day reminder not to be stupid!

That was the problem for me. When it hit about every six weeks, it was a four days minimum and up to two weeks. Wrist, knees, ankles and absolutely nothing would touch the pain. I couldn't sleep and when it got in my wrist I couldn't button a shirt or tie my shoes for two weeks. I was miserable for a while until we figured it out, but it had been happening on and off for twenty years.