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What can I say guys, it’s been 5 months I still have a slightly swollen right foot, it is also still red. Still if I put pressure on my right foot the WHOLE foot is in pain. FIVE MONTHS! Every drug under the sun has been tried the only one giving me any sort of real relief was prednisolone but you can’t use this long term i only used it for 4 days once i came off it my pain went right back to what it was before. so thats naproxen, indomethacin, colchocine, paracetamol, ibuprofen and prednisolone all been tried to get me past this one attack and all have failed. I can’t start allopurinol until this is fixed. I had an x ray and the doctor said the results came back fine i don’t have arthiritis or anything (bare in mind im 24 years of age). 5 months of my life gone… not sure what to do now
So I make that 13 – 14 weeks now and still my right foot is messed up.
So here’s what I have discovered, indomethachin is doing SOMEHTING because i didn’t take it for a day because i ran away and my pain level increased so much, and after a few days back on the indometh the pain subsided. Now let me be clear i still cant put real pressure on the ball of my right foot with being in pain, I feel it when im walking, driving any time. I get twinges all around my feet now. This is despite changing my diet to one with no meat, never had alcohol anyway.. but ive been healthy diet wise for roughly 4 months as i started one month before my attack came along.
My GP has now referred me to get another x ray, see a podiatrist and also a rheumatologist. I suspect i may be one of those hopeless case that at the age of 23 even before i could try the allopurinol i cannot rid this attack with any anti inflammatory despite it being 3.5 months.
yes it did cross my mind that the weight loss might be the cause of such a lengthy and extreme attack, but the combination of cutting out the fizzy drinks and fatty food and drinking lots of water means it is coming off by itself without any exercise.
I just came back from a weekend abroad, plane flights really made my feet feel quite stiff, not the thing you want on a 7 hour flight! can only imagine this is linked to gout somehow.
Im back at work as of last week and Im walking about around client sites etc from 8am-6pm so the joints are getting worked alright 😛
Thanks for all the advice!
I bought a home test kit and have been testing myself over the last few weeks… I vary massively. When first checked by my GP I was 9.8, the the home test kit testing in the morning roughly every few days I fluctuate from 9 down to 5.5 with no noticeable changes to my diet.
My diet for the last few months has been as follows: No meat, Never had alcohol and no things high in purine like chickpeas mushrooms etc just having vegetarian dishes like rice and potatoes. I also drink a minimum of 2 litres of water every day. I don’t consume any other softdrinks or tea just water.
Yes you are right I am overweight, but I started healthy eating a month before the gout attack on which I lost 1.5 stones.. Since my attack 9 weeks ago I actually have lost roughly one more stone and now weigh 16.0 stones.. im only 5.10 so still about 3-4 stones overweight i would say.
I used to hot soak in the beginning and it did help ease the pain for a couple of hours, I might start doing it again.
I’m going to stick with the indomethacin for another week or two and see if it kills off the pain, fingers crossed! 9 weeks just seem such a long time for this to be ongoing and I fear that my joints are being eaten away and I can’t do anything about it.
I do wonder at times if we have just abused our bodies so much that they have lost their ability to process uric acid properly, there must be a way to re-sensitise the body to it I refuse to believe there is no cure for something like this
i was taking 1 colchicine 3 times a day as advised by my doctor and didn’t notice any difference and stopped at the first sign of diarrhea.
6 weeks of naproxen has confirmed that is is useless on me.
now on day 4 of indomethacin 3 times a day still not really noticed much.
If I try to use my right foot and put pressure on it I feel pain and its killing me 9 weeks later with nothing solving it. And I cant go on allopurinol until this attack subsides so its just lose lose right now.
i tried cherries and baking soda and celery seed extract to no avail.
I am heading abroad tomorrow for the weekend and scared about the indomethacin… at some point every day i feel unwell since taking this pill.. be it light headed or sleepy or sick
