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WTF, gout?

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I woke up two days ago with a moderate pain in my big toe that I thought was linked to my 15kms backpacking two nights before, but it is in fact gout apparently.
It's not even directly related to my alcohol intake but I still have to stop drinking during the flare. Not even wine.
I am going to be extremely grumpy all week-end long.
I feel like killing someone with extra blood violence special effects right now.
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Re: WTF, gout?

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Read up on the stuff briefly, eww. My broken toe doesn't seem too bad at all.

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That is very shit, sorry to hear of both the gout and its cruel undrunk treatment. Hope you can get back to it sharpish.
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Stay away from ibuprofen. That stuff can really affect a gout flare.
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Hope it's not too bad. My dad gets it from time to time, but hasn't for a good while since he started trying to be healthier. On the other hand I know a guy who has had crippling gout since he lost weight, ate healthier and stopped smoking.
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Sorry to hear about the illness. Hears to hoping you're healthy and back to hooching in no time.
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I have some experience in this, and, if you are not adverse to a little homeopathy, here is my advice for you to take it as you will:
Celery seed capsules. (There is an extract, but I've never taken it.)
Eat a bunch of cherries, blueberries and strawberries.
Ingest water and vitamin c. I beleive that orange juice might have too many sulfites in it.
Black cherry juice is the optimal juice; is available in a concentrate in these United States and can be taken by the spoonful.

Don't eat cured meat, sausages or offal.
Also, asparagus might exacerbate it.

I have read that wine was the only liquor that was alright to drink.

Also, a guy at work with whom I have bonded with over gout swears that Naproxen is a miracle and that his doctor told him to take 3 Aleve™ at the onset of an attack.
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Tell you what, I'll have a few in your name, just to maintain universal balance.
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Hope you recover soon. You'll have to make up for lost time once you can drink again...
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Re: WTF, gout?

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This is getting weirder and weirder: a Harvard Medical School inquiry showed that wine doesn't increase the risk of gout while beer is a major factor. Well, wine is what I drink all the time. It might be that something in what I ate triggered that. That is highly unfortunate.
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I heard a lot of protein can cause gout. Dunno though, this was just a bloke in the pub who sounded confident.
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I heard that too, I think it is a particular amino acid
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No alcohol on a weekend? Oh my God. I won't even try to fathom this.
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Get well soon!

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somebody's getting old


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