Demon Gout
I have been told for years that I should have gout. I have been taking allopurinol for many years, though for the last six months I have not. I keep hearing “you should experience a flareup anytime now”
SO last friday night, when my right baby toe started to give me some grief, I thought, yeah, here it is. All that warning, and finally I’ve got it. I dragged out the Alopurinol, and hoped I’d caught it in time and didn’t need to spend three days on the john.
And then the wife catches me.
“You don’t have Gout, you have a shitty memory. You dropped a full frozen bottle of water on it last night, remember? ”
And of course she was correct.
Wives have a tendency to put us on our places, don’t they?
Pie cherries. All you have to do is eat some cherries every day and it will keep the gout in check. Old cattle buyer told me that years ago. It works and a tasty way to make the hurt stay away. I really like cherry pie! :)
Had a doc tell me that there is something in the juices of cherries that disolves the crystals that get caught in the joint and hurt your foot.
All I know is, it works.
Second the pie cherries. They work.
BTW, that is an incorrect application of Allopurinol. That drug takes up to 3 weeks to get to the level where it can defeat an attack. What you want is Colchicine, which DOES work after the attack comes on, and is effective in 2-8 hours.
That is precisely the correct application of Allopurinol. The point, like drilling for oil, is to get it going quickly so you accomplish something in the three weeks. Colchicine is for flareups, which, apparently, I do not have. Thank god. I’ve seen several folks go through Colchisine treatments. I’d rather have the pain.
Of course, in some people allopurinal can CAUSE a flareup, I’m told. All this has been done under drs orders, anyway.
Glad it was just a case of clumsy, not gout :)