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Hello everyone my name is Justin and I started having pain about five days ago in my right foot. The pain is located in the middle three toes and goes a little ways up the middle of my foot. I thought I just tweaked it so I just took a couple ibuprofen and moved on. However on the third day I could barely walk on my foot and the pain was very very bad. I went to the urgent care and they took x-rays but those showed nothing so they took a blood test. I got the results and I have high uric acid levels. I was prescribed 800mg ibuprofen 3 times a day but this has done nothing. The pain is excrutiating and I can no longer walk, it is even painful just moving any of my toes. I heard drinking 100% tart cherry juice helped so I've been doing that but no luck. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
See if your doctor will write a script for Colchicine if that stops the attack you most likely have Gout. If it does stop it. Allop is the next step and it is for life.?I hope you have insurance as Colchicine has went Thu the roof since the FDA approved it. My last was $310 for 60 pills which was a months supply. You can get it?a lot cheaper if you?Thu a online pharmacy out of?Canada. Another thing you can try is baking soda mix 1/2 teaspoon in 6 to 8?OZ of water and drink it.?I use to do this 3 or 4 times a day and it worked pretty well. But?I must warn you it can raise you blood pressure. It worked for me but just as a temporary fix. If you have Gout you need to get on meds for it before it does permanent. damage.?Good luck. Limpy
Thanks Limpy, I'll go see my doctor soon and hoopefully get on Colchicine and see where it goes from there.
My last was $310 for 60 pills which was a months supply.
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Oh dear JESUS!
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And what is with that friggen banana????
I went to the doctor and he prescribed prednisone, taken three times a day. Anyone have any luck with this because so far it's not really helping. Also got vic for the pain but i'm trying to only use it when i absolutely need it.
I took Prednisone for about 8 months off and on it would work on the pain and swelling then as soon as i tried to get off it the pain would come back and the rheumy would up the dose. That went on till?Igot up to 60 mgs then my heart started acting up. Skipping beats and flutters.?Ihad to start bata blockers to calm my heart down.?He finally put me on Colchicine and that stopped the attacks.?I still think if that asshole would have started me out on Colchicine?I could have avoided all the trouble I've had with my heart.?I hope?I never have to take another steroid?as long as?I live. I'd insist on trying the Colchicine. Good luck. ?Limpy????? Zip what banana ? I'm don't know what your talking about.
I kept getting what looked like someone started a post and then only posted a big yellow banana. It came and went several times.
Perhaps my new computer is haunted by a chimpanzee?
It seems gone now.
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IHG,
Ask your doctor for colchicine, but alas it is now SOOO freaking expensive in the U.S. now that it got a patent, ?that I am loathe to recommend it. It is the very best way to end an attack. Can anyone get it cheap overseas? (I haven't priced the India suppliers becasue I have a lot of it “just in case.” Canada?
Indomethacin 25 mg. 4 times a day is probably better than ibuprofen.
Your attack is NOT in a common place. Have you had atttacks before? This does not sound unlike Plantar Fasciitis. How high was your uric acid?
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I have nothing against prednisone…I stopped an attack of shingles with it?in?under 3 weeks?days which must be something of a record. But like limpy says , it is purely palliative…it stops inflammation but the inflammation often comes back when the prednisone is stopped and the stuff is habituating, you need more and mopre to get the same effect.
So take it if your doctors wants, but don't use it as a crutch more than a couple weeks.
Thanks for all the input guys, the prednisone did not do anything so I went back to the doctor and he prescribed Indomethacin 50 mg 3 times a day and it seems to be working as most of the pain has gone away.
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Z2P,
I am only 18 years old and this is my first attack. My uric acid when I finally went in and got it tested was an 8.8. I'm not sure if it was the Indomethacin that stopped it or if it just went away as it has been about 9 days since the attack started. Also one more thing, did anyone have trouble sleeping with the Indomethacin, because I can't seem to fall asleep even though I am deadly tired.
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Anyways, my doctor also told me that gout was mostly hereditary, and diet/drinking only played a small role. Is this true because I would rather not give up red meat/seafood/ale unless it is completely necessary.
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My rheumatologist has told me that my uric acid level at any given moment is 1/3 a product of diet and 2/3 the result of normal cell metabolism.? So until you control your uric acid levels using medication (like Allopurinol) increased intake of red meat, shellfish, beer, etc. could increase the likelihood of attack but completely cutting out these foods will not eliminate risk of an attack.? This is one of the many odd and perhaps counter-intuitive aspects of gout.
The beauty of the drug is that with proper allopurinol dosing, there is no need to give up meat, beer, shriimp, calves liver smothered in fried onlion?(yummm.)
The converse is not true though. You can suffer though all the ancient?dietary recommendations and STILL not properly control your gout.
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There really is no way around the dictum that once you have had a gout attack you will be on a drug for life…nothing else works.
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There really is no way around the dictum that once you have had a gout attack you will be on a drug for life…nothing else works.
And yet people are still so afraid of this notion…a drug for life.
Maybe what we should be doing on here is trying to quantify what this actually means and get people to view Allo as being as safe as aspirin, if not safer. But we need scientific studies rather than anecdotal evidence. Do long term studies on Allo &? liver & kidney function exist? (I guess this is what most people are worried about)
There are differences of course: most people don't start taking aspirin daily for their hearts until they're middle aged or older when regular medication seems more acceptable. Whereas, we see many more people getting gout in their 20s these days. But, strangely, it's rarely the younger gouties who seem to have the most problems with the idea of meds.
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