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Nobody, thx for your reply.
My big toe is definitely gout. I’ve had it before there. My question really isn’t whether I have gout. I know I’m in the midst of a gout attack now.My question is: Has anyone else heard this? Since antibiotics annihilates your good/bad bacteria, is it likely that after taking antibiotics a 3 weeks ago, I am now more susceptible and easily getting gout because my non-existent good bacteria can no longer assist in removing my uric acid before it gets to the kidneys.
I say “susceptible / easily getting gout” because I’m eating the same diet as I was before taking the antibiotics. However, now, I’m on day 15 of 2 gout attacks (days 1-12 on the achilles tendon bursa, days 13-15 on the big toe joint…both same foot. First attack subsided as the second one started.
@ Ken Bell – You mentioned at the beginning that you had a chest infection, then the gout symptoms began soon after. I too had the same issue. I took some antibiotics and then a few days later, my tendon bursa was inflamed. Podiatrist said it was gout. I had 3.5 days of uric acid cleansing, tendon bursa very slight improvement during the 3.5 days. Took a uric acid blood test showed 5.5-normal (5.9 was the upper limit for too much). After the uric acid results still w/ tendon bursa pain, I thought I didn’t have gout and might have strained the bursa. Since my uric acid was normal, I went back to my normal diet the very next day (meat/veg/rice/wine for dinner, pinto beans/meat for lunch). 5 days later, my big toe joint started to hurt like gout at which time, my tendon bursa was getting better. Now I’m in full gout attack w/ big toe pain, and going back to uric acid cleansing. Previous gout attack 1.5 years ago was induced by too much partying and drinking lots of beer (6 per day for 10 days) on vacation.
So, I think what’s happening now is that my uric acid blood test was skewed due to my 3.5 days of cleansing. What really happened *might* be that the antibiotics nuked my good bacteria. I read that the good bacteria removes some portion of uric acid, which it can’t do now. Therefore, any meat/alcohol diet is triggering a gout attack.
What do you guys think? It seems to be what’s common about Ken Bell and me.
Ken Bell – Did you take antibiotics for your chest infection prior to the gout attack? Thanks.
