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1Good morning Athlete, I just wanted to tell my story.. It started Jan 1. I woke up with a terrible pain behind my lleft ankle. Within 2 hrs I was in bed and that's where I stayed for about a week, screaming in the worst pain I have ever?experienced. Now I have known pain but this was something out of a horror story. I never knew pain existed on this level. No exaggeration. By the time my husband got me to a hospital my foot was swollen beyond recognition. It looked liked a rubber glove that had been blown up! You could not tell where my toes were or if I even had toes. The doctor and the infectious disease dr. diagnosed me with cellulitis and kept me there for 3 weeks on triple iv antibiotics. My dr. didn't believe in pain med. and told me it would be better for me not to take anything so that when I left the hospital I could better deal with the pain! That was the first month. I was then sent home on more antibiotics and told to see my gp in two weeks. After the 2 weeks I went to see my?gp who said I didn't have cellulitis but that I had an acute attack of gout! Now I am 5'1, weigh 105 and am in great shape.I am a swimmer and a cyclist. I do have arthritis pretty bad but nothing that would make you think gout! By this time I had developed tophi all up my calf and was still in horrrible pain and unable to walk. So he told me to take indomethicin for 2 weeks and all would be fine. On my next app. I went in and he took one look at my leg and told me to get to the hospital asap! 4 more weeks in the hospital and a radical operation later for the tophi and I am back at home. Learning to walk again but it is very slow. Considering they were talking about me losing my leg and possibly never walking normally again I must say I'll take it.? The foot is looking much better, my diet is very strict and all seemed to be going well until about 4 days ago. I went to the store and bought a box of honey nut cheerios. The big box! After not having sugar for so long I went on a cheerios fest. I ate the box in 2 days and woke up with my foot swollen again. Stopped the sugar and it went right down! Well, it's been 3mos. and I don't think I will ever be the same. It's been terrible and now I realize that it's a life long fight. I really feel for you, if you have any advise, or anyone does please chat back with me!?? It would be greatly appreciated! Good luck to everyone out there with this bizzare disease.
trev said:
Hi Jeff- There's a lot to take in here. What you have been through with the diuretic echoes many experiences.
I would think your kideys have taken quite a knock. This has progressed to gout as it says on the label often enough.
With your SUA figures it looks like you're still in process of reducing it and suffering the usual trials.
Your fitness schedule is not helping your efforts here- with all that lactic acid competing for attention as well as urate reduction so I would trim back your program to the cycling &? swimming only. The shock to joints of distance running to say nothing of wear and tear is huge and you really have to take stock of what you're asking your frame to do here. Walking is slower, but easier?on joints tbh!
What about distance walking?
I reckon you could lose?a few more?lbs too, and have a better BMI- but 1lb a week is an ample loss target .You seem pretty fit, anyway!
On the twinge front- try Black Bean broth- it does work for me and others, but I don't take it every day myself- just when needed.
Herbal remedies are not lauded on here- but I'm currently trying a mix of them [without the?pesky Magnesium Stearate component] , organic Tumeric, Milk Thistle and Artichoke. Garlic always on the menu.
Mainly, we all need time and loads of patience to deal with this curse of gout, but being kinder to your body is a big part here.?? Forget the money, your health is FAR more worth to you.
Look after the machine and it will look after you- at least the worst is hopefully behind you now!
It can take many months to break through the SUA build up [6 often mentioned here, as being?likely] -?Keep going..
