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I just had my first Gout flare up about a week ago. ?I was in such pain that I had never felt before.
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Initially we thought it was something else. ?My sister thought it could be gout but she did not bring up that small fact until two days after we realized what it was.
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I don't have insurance so I could not go see the proper doctor. ?Every symptom fit and we even checked a few things on what it could have been just to make sure.
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I am 20 so I thought it was odd. ?I found out that both my grandmothers had gotten it so genetics bit me hard this time.
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Right now I am just trying to get the swelling and redness to go away. ?The pain is gone. ?Cherry juice here I come!!!!
Cherry juice will not change your parents.
You are right to recognize your gout is genetic, so there is little point in worrying about diet and dietary supplements, though a well-balanced diet will not harm.
You have a choice today. Either you find a way to get your uric acid tested and get treatment to lower it below 5mg/dL, or you leave it untreated and get more gout attacks every year with joint damage that will leave you crippled in later life.
Being in Britain, I do not understand the financial barriers to getting proper treatment. I do know that if someone explains them to me properly, I will find a way to beat them and ensure your treatment costs are covered.
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The choice is yours.
When I can find the cash, I am going to get a tester. ?Here in the US everyone is against free health care for some reason.
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And the Cherry Juice is to help get rid of the swelling and redness.
Oh, it is far from free in Britain.
First, tax and National Insurance takes 25 to 30% of what you earn before you see it. There is 20% tax on everything but basic food and a few other things. Much, much more on petrol, booze and baccy. Over $2000 per year in Council Tax and Water Rates. Every prescription costs $12 for each item.
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I prefer how you do it. At least, I think I do, as I do not fully understand how it works.
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If you want a website to help earn a little extra cash, just ask. It does take time – no free rides in that sense, but no cash outlay and your mentor works pro bono
Wrave said:
When I can find the cash, I am going to get a tester. ?Here in the US everyone is against free health care for some reason.
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And the Cherry Juice is to help get rid of the swelling and redness.
Please, do yourself and your pocket book a favor: Don't spend money on cherry juice “to help get rid of the swelling and redness.” You won't.?
I have been drinking one ounce of concentrated juice for more than five years. ( Yeah, I started for the same reason as you try to do.) It is healthy, I like the taste and it has lots of antioxidants. Like other people drink OJ, I prefer CH J.Man, you got your whole life ahead of you. don't start skid-row at age 20. And I don't mean the alcoholic skid-row, but the gout skid-row. If you got genetic gout (and you seem to indicate that), you have gout for life. Get hold of NOW. ?You MUST get the exact uric acid level in your blood, regardless where it is rat now, you must get it below 5mg/dL.
I feel for you but I can't be sorry for you. 1. It wouldn't help you anyhow, and 2. you have to thank your parents and grandparents who voted during the last 30-40 years. The only advice I have: Try to find someone (friend or relative) on whom you can rely who has some knowledge of how to beat one of the, if not the crookedest health system in the world.
My parents nor grandparents vote. ?I am seriously thinking of moving to Canada for that very reason. ?Free health care (government run or not) is a good thing.
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Any tips on how to get rid of the redness and swelling?
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?My parents do not see the big deal and I know I really need to get a hold on this. ?While i do have health care through my step dad, they don't want to take me to a rheumatologist unless the symptoms persist. ?They do not see the need to spend all this money on me for just a simple disease that they think will be a one time thing. ?I read that some glucose testers have a UA setting and I am going to look into that because I really want to be healthy.
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And yes I would love that site.
Wrave said:
And yes I would love that site.
OK, more news on that soon.
In the meantime, you'll remember I mentioned a time cost, but no financial one. Please spend some time finding out how much a uric acid test costs at a lab, or hospital, or clinic. I.e. what are the choices available for uric acid tests, and how much do they cost? I know the cost of home uric acid testers, and I know it costs quite a lot for the test strips, but how does this compare with the other alternatives?
Wrave said:
My parents nor grandparents vote.
Sorry, forgot to say: All those parents and grandparents.
?I am seriously thinking of moving to Canada for that very reason. ?Free health care (government run or not) is a good thing.
The sooner the better for you. That big US of A warship is taking on water and about to go where it has sent others to in the last 100 years.?
Any tips on how to get rid of the redness and swelling?
You got to get your immune system back into order and (in my opinion) only a good doctor (preferably a rheumatologist in your case) can help you. You ain't gotten just a swelling and redness from a bee sting! Gout is is a far more malevolent beast (unless you got it tamed) than a little (generally quite peaceful) bee.?
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?My parents do not see the big deal and I know I really need to get a hold on this. ?While i do have health care through my step dad, they don't want to take me to a rheumatologist unless the symptoms persist. ?They do not see the need to spend all this money on me for just a simple disease that they think will be a one time thing. ?I read that some glucose testers have a UA setting and I am going to look into that because I really want to be healthy.
You are between a stone and a hard rock. The stone: not having a doctor knowledgeable about gout and a hard rock: parents who know even less about it.
?However, you are 1 in a 1000 who is made aware of gout at an early age. You don't want to reach 80, if you ever will, with your joints crippled, gout attacks ?forcing you on all your fours to crawl to the bath room (and I am not kidding) and whatever else can, and quite often, will happen.
You may think that I am trying to put the fears of god or the devil in to you. Far from it. They are just figments of imagination. GOUT AIN'T! It's more REAL than the most “powerful god” or “devious devil” you can imagine.
And yes I would love that site.
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