Joined: 19 Aug 2006 Posts: 455 Location: Danbury, CT.
For the Pain? Posted: 02-19-07 17:39pm
What treatments can be used for gout pain?
Are there natural methods to be used?
Operation to help with pain?
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JYY2
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 05 Jun 2004 Posts: 227
Posted: 02-20-07 00:03am
I am very sorry you are in pain. You may
like to take a look at "Emergency Gout
Treatments" section in http://www.ICuredMyGout.org on
how to deal with gout attacks. I have
not read that surgery is used to relieve
gout pain.
It is very unusual for women in
child-bearing age to have gout. However,
in rare case, gout can attack mothers
about 12 weeks after the deliveries. If
you are not getting better soon, I suggest
that you see a rheumatologist.
Good luck.
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BabyGirlsMami
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 19 Aug 2006 Posts: 455 Location: Danbury, CT.
Posted: 02-20-07 23:50pm
I dont have it but my father does in it
hands and feet. he is always saying how in
pain he is he cant walk or use his hands.
he is on medication but it dosent help and
they tell him to take ibprofin for the
pain. i asked him if he had ever tried a
natural remedy and he said he didnt know
of any but thank you for the site i will
definately check it out and send it to him
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critical care RN
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 20 Feb 2007 Posts: 92
Posted: 02-21-07 00:03am
BabyGirlsMami; Your father needs to be on
medication for his gout as well as
anti-inflammitories (ibuprophen). Such
meds as allopurinol. Gout is often related
to an inherited abnormality in the body to
process uric acid. Uric acid levels can
become elevated by eating a lot of
purine-rich foods such as meats, by the
overproduction of uric acid by the body,
or if the kidneys do not eliminate excess
uric acid. Tell him to stay away from
processed meat like deli meats that you by
in the store. These meats contain a lot of
Purine. Other foods that are high in
Purine are veal,
bacon, liver, salmon and turkey. And no
there is not any surgical help available,
sorry
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lindseyprog
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 20 Feb 2007 Posts: 2
Re: For the Pain Posted: 02-22-07 08:51am
I am sorry to hear that your Father has
this type of pain. I do understand what
he is going thru. I recommend the highest
dose of Ibuprofin (800 milligrams 4 times
a day). The other thing he will want to
do is to drink a lot of water. Also he
may want to look at http://icuredmygout.org as it has
helped me.
I was diagnosed with gout 10 years ago and
I am only 37. The pain can get very
horrible and I feel for those who suffer.
The one thing that I can tell you is that
Baking Soda really really works. It does
not taste good but to get rid of the pain
I deal with it. In fact since I have
started to take the Baking Soda on a
regular basis the Uric Acid crystal
deposits (aka tofi) have started to
disappear on some joints and are
completely gone in others. I wish I knew
about Baking Soda before I had to have my
big left toe joint rebuilt by a surgeon.
I know that Baking Soda is not a idea that
most doctors or healthcare people look at
but I can recommend it as now I can bend
joints that could not bend when I was not
taking Baking Soda. Also I can eat and
drink things that I was not able to when
doing the normal mainstream stuff.
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JYY2
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 05 Jun 2004 Posts: 227
Posted: 02-22-07 13:01pm
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RE: " ... Tell him to stay away from
processed meat like deli meats that you by
in the store. These meats contain a lot of
purine. Other foods that are high in
purine are veal, bacon, liver, salmon and
turkey."
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High level of uric acid in the blood
(hyperuricemia) is neither the necessary
nor the sufficient condition for
triggering gout. Recent medical and
nutritional literature do not routinely
recommend low purine diet for the gout
patients. (Purines turn into uric acid in
the liver.) For example, "... A rigid
purine restricted diet is of dubious
therapeutic value and can rarely be
sustained for long ...", so says a gout
expert, professor a. G. Fam in "gout,
diet, and the insulin resistance
syndrome".
Interestingly, numerous food and drink
that are known to trigger gout have low
purine content, e.g., peanut, cranberry,
orange, tomato, wine, liquor, ..., even
egg (as mentioned by mrfirkin and
WanttoKnow under the thread "Eggs &
Gout" in this message board).
Professor Fam's article can be found by:
1) Click on : http://www.Jrh
eum.Com/subscribers/02/07/1350.Html --
this will take you to a website, with an
error message.
2) In the address box of the link, change
the upper case "H" in ".Html" to lower
case, and hit return key.
3) This will take you to Professor Fam's
article.
