Keith’s GoutPal Story 2020 Forums Please Help My Gout! My Story, advice appreciated!

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    jrodd88
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    I am a 41yr. old male, 6’4″, 245lbs. I was diagnosed with gout over ten years ago. I always get flare ups in my ankles and in the small bones (instep) of my foot. Lately the traditional allpurinol and colchicine dont seem to work. I have constant pain in my instep (enough to limit activities) and tylenol and alieve don’t do much good. I am also on coumadin for the rest of my life due to a clotting disorder and a dvt in 1993. Is it normal to have constant pain while on a daily dose of colchicine?
    thanks,
    Jeff

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    Keith Taylor
    Keymaster

    The purpose of allopurinol is to lower uric acid to a safe level. Without knowledge of your uric acid number now, and during your gout history, it is impossible to suggest reasons.

    Allopurinol Medication: Why It Hurts To Get Rid Of Gout

    Allopurinol Medication: Why It Hurts To Get Rid Of Gout

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    odo
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    Even assuming your SUA to be at a safe level, now, this doesn’t mean you won’t have long term musculoskeletal pain relating to permanent changes to bones, ligaments & tendons caused by gout over the years. Being overweight won’t help. Plenty of heavy people without gout have disabling problems with feet/ankles/knees.

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    zip2play
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    jrodd88 said

    I am a 41yr. old male, 6’4″, 245lbs. I was diagnosed with gout over ten years ago. I always get flare ups in my ankles and in the small bones (instep) of my foot. Lately the traditional allpurinol and colchicine dont seem to work. I have constant pain in my instep (enough to limit activities) and tylenol and alieve don’t do much good. I am also on coumadin for the rest of my life due to a clotting disorder and a dvt in 1993. Is it normal to have constant pain while on a daily dose of colchicine?
    thanks,
    Jeff

    Managing your gout in no way mitigates the possibility of suffering other conditions. Constant pain in the instep is USUALLY plantar fasciitis which may or may not be related to gout.
    I had PF once and it lasted 6 months and disappeared as mysteriously as it developed. In retrospect I don’t know if it was gout or not and it was somewhat before my formal diagnosis of gout…at the time I had no idea what colchicine even WAS.laugh

    The fact that your instep pain does not respond to colchicine points more than a bit towards NON-gout. Colchine is quite gout specific.

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