Next Stage of Gout Attacks? Posted: 05-10-07 22:41pm
I've been a gout sufferer since 2003,
averaging an attack every 3-4 months.
This week, I suffered 2 attacks in
succession. One in the back of my knee.
I took my Naproxen and the symptoms
disappeared within 2-3 hours, before the
pain became disabling. Next day, however,
the right side of my knee was being
attacked. This time, the attack didn't
respond so promptly to Naproxen. In fact,
I ended up taking 2 tablets of Naproxen
and 3 tablets of Advil Ibuprofen. Most
noticeable was the fever, which lasted for
4-6 hours during the day. Thankfully, the
attack did subsided eventually and it
wasn't terribly disabling. It got as bad
as limping with some pain.
Since all my previous attacks went away so
quickly, I'm a bit worried whether I'm
entering another phase. Has anyone gone
through evolving stages of gout, where
attacks become more frequent and more than
one joint is attacked simultaneously?
Could I be entering that phase now?
This was the first time where one attack
followed another. I'm not on any gout
medication. In my first two years of
suffering, I used to take allopurinol and
colchine but discontinued; taking those
tablets did not stop attacks and I found
the attacks occur with same frequency
whether I take them or not. I also don't
watch my diet that carefully because my
attacks, I truly believe, are not food
related but probably stress related. I'm
42, perhaps a bit overweight (5-10 / 200)
but have a wide frame and have always
weighed above the norm.
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Posted: 05-11-07 08:28am
During the 15 year period when I had gout
attacks, they did become more frequent
over that time. Whatever I tried that
seemed to mitigate the attacks lost its
effectiveness as time went on. It was only
when my sleep apnea was diagnosed and
resolved that my gout attacks ceased
completely. The reason that the4 oxygen
reduction from sleep apnea can cause gout
is described in the new book "The Perils
of Sleep Apnea - An Undiagnosed Epidemic",
available for less that 10 bucks at
amazon.com.
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