I swear I did not have purine rich foods nor alcohol this past week and now I have goddamned gout in my goddamned left knee.

Life is life, piss is a good indicator of dehydration. You will find it foams in the bowl too. You are dehydrated. Get rid of the gout and then take electrolytes to aid in hydration. Don't do the bicarb for more than a few days.

Controlled substance over here - will have to pass on that one for now.

You know you've got it real good when you have to crawl to the toilet.

Here's a few things I'm trying at the moment:

Fisetin - a natural plant compound (also found in strawberries) to help with controlling the production of uric acid.
[link to www.sciencedirect.com (secure)]
[link to www.amazon.com.au (secure)]

Tart Cherry Juice
[link to lakewoodorganic.com (secure)]

Alkaline Water
- containing Magnesium Bicarbonate
[link to www.uniquewater.com.au (secure)]

Magnesium Oil
[link to www.divineremedies.com.au (secure)]

I have had gout in my toe before but never my knee, that would suck. The pain came on in waves like it would build up in my toe with ever increasing throbbing pain and then it would "release" and this wave of extreme pain would wash slowly up my body and then back down to my foot again.

I remember writhing around in bed for like two days because I could not get comfortable at all. I would be in pain, but it felt like the pain would just keep increasing, and never subside. One minute it is the worst pain I ever felt, then literally a minute later it has increased and it is a new level of intensity for the worst pain I ever felt.

It was incredibly awful, like you smash your toe with a sledge hammer and then smash your whole foot and keep smashing it until it is a mashed up paste of blood and cracked shards of bone. And then you keep smashing it so any nerve endings that are still connected are sending your brain nothing but pain signals.

I think it was my diet. I was drinking too much alcohol, not getting enough exercise and also eating shit food like frozen pizzas and frozen pre cooked ribs in cheap BBQ sauce and frozen chicken wings from the dollar store.

I managed to get some black cherry juice and drank it constantly and I think it reduced the overall time of the gout event from like a week to just 3 days or so. If you don't know where to get black cherry juice try a grocer that specializes in Eastern European imported foods.

Cherry juice. I eat cherry craisens as well

I take naproxen sodium (Alleve) when I have a gout flare up. Need to take a minimum of 4 pills for the first dose. According to the Mayo Clinic link below you can take a higher first dose if needed. You also need to drink a ton of water to help get rid of the urid acid.

[link to www.mayoclinic.org (secure)]

I can lift my toes up now without pain so yeah it seems to be working. Can bend 10% now.

Knee is still blazing hot and throbbing though. Swelling is the same.

Last Edited by Emergency Patriot Hologram on 01/18/2022 04:57 AM

All excellent ideas. Thanks guys. Will report back in February when I start the cherry extract.

Drinking urine will cure that. Will cure Covid from setting in causing those problems.

You haven't seen my urine have you. Or better yet smelled it.

No thanks

research DMSO please , this will help you

the longer you have it, the more joints it spreads to. I feel your pain literally.

I just had it & it started right after eating fudge I was given as a gift. I felt it in my ankle & soon was in my big toe. Couldn't walk w/o crutches, drank lots of water, & avoided sugar & acids & it was gone in about a week. Gout sucks.

Sorry to hear. Anyone who has not experienced the pain of gout cannot imagine how bad it is.

I could not regulate it without allopurinol, 100mg/day which works like a champ for 15 years now. However, I can still flare if not careful to hydrate and avoid certain foods.

Only time I had it in my knee, I was on a ski trip and ate a fair amount of red meat, shellfish, coupled with beers and skiing which I dont do often. Knee woke me in the middle of the night, red hot, throbbing pain, and I could not put it in a position to get relief.

Generally, I can eat whatever I want in moderation, even scallops, lobster, steak, etc. However, if I eat EGGPLANT this is a guaranteed flare for me. So OP, maybe there is some obscure food you ate that triggered it? Or you had a slight twist of the knee, banged it on something, or stepped on it wrong and thought nothing of it?

Lots of good advice in this thread, good luck and hopefully by now the worst is past.

it's probably the lectins in the eggplant that are responsible
[link to pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (secure)]

ignore that nih link, it refers to something else.

Same thing happened to me, turned out to be gluten.

Come to think of it I did slip on the bottom step coming down the stairs at my parents house, but it was not painful just a sudden jerk which launched me forward so I had to stretch my arms out to the opposing wall not to lose my balance. But that was Sunday afternoon and there was no pain or anything. This all started last night so more than 24 hours later.

As far as hydration I drink around 3 liters of water a day so for the life of me I cannot fathom why I would be dehydrated.. Well I do have a reverse osmosis system to filter the tap water maybe that has long term undesirable effects.

Last Edited by Emergency Patriot Hologram on 01/18/2022 01:03 PM

Ice will dial back the pain some. Not curative but can provide a bit of temporary relief.

THIS. you can get gout just from being dehydrated.


More: water, electrolytes, fiber.

RO water will worsen gout flare ups of you're already deficient in minerals.

RO water isn't very good for you.

If you drink RO water all the time, you're very likely deficient in magnesium, calcium, zinc, and potassium. These deficiencies can cause gout symptoms.

High Fructose Corn Syrup will cause gout also. Lithium Orotate is very helpful. It causes uric acid in your blood to remain soluable and unable to crystalize. It has saved me many times when I ate/drank something that I shouldn't and felt my feet and ankles swelling up. After you have gout, it may be too late to use lithium. You may have to let it run uts course now. Lithium is a mineral not a drug. I am not a medical doctor and am not giving medical advise.

Things starting to make sense now. Gonna take out the RO membrane tomorrow.

Thanks-

UPDATE: Received and started on the tart cherry today. Taking 2000mg/day.

I also removed the reverse osmosis filter and have only been using the particle filters and carbon filter for a month now.

I must say I feel much better. I bet drinking only RO water for months kicked it off (started in September last year using it). This has been quite an eye opener for me with regards of RO.

I'll use the concentrated cherry extract for a while and do some updates if anything changes.

For now I am pain free and mobility is fine. Thanks again for the tips - it really helped.

Indomethacin 50mg green capsule.

Get a bottle of it. Just one pill will arrest it, I promise, within 20-30 minutes too.

You need to have half a fresh lemon squeezed into water every morning. Then you won't get gout.

You can add a remineralizer to your RO. We did and the water taste great.

One word: stress

kombucha instead of laxatives

laxatives add acid to your system

your corrosive bro

you need yin foods

un cooked foods, until your healthy

then. just eat home cook foods, whatever- just eat light amounts,

if you go big for breakfast, go small on dinner, n lunch

if Christmas coming up, fast. till then so you can go big

I swear all my health problems went away after I adjusted my amounts, I eat half the amount I use to, I didn't even change what I ate

and I noticed a huge health change for the better,

its all about the amount bro