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Originally Posted by Evans, Marv
About the most painful thing I've experienced, Got it in the left knee first, then in the left big toe hoint, and abit in the two center joints on my right foot. Been avoiding overdoing it on purines since them, though the blood test showed I was barely above the high limit of average. It was hell.
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yea. you just described the leading trait of Gout. the higher normal Uric level in blood (8 mg/dL?). will give a Gout Sufferer a flare up. the target level of Uric level for a Gout person is to keep it below 5.9 mg/Dl. I met Dr. Jameson, and he was a cool doctor. a Rheum..I aint gonna try to spell it. he presribed Allopurinol to get my uric levels to 5.5. we had to play with the dosage. Dr. J said, that even though you don't have a flare up, I still had Gout. the damage to my joints are happening even when I was painfree. a flare up was just an added symptom to the auto immune gig. hence the drug. he also said it is damn near impossible to diet your way out of it. getting under 5.9 isn't easy, maybe if we go straight green juice for life. and he said, plant purines don't affect us as bad as animal purines.
dunno..I believe him. lots of my friends and co workers just take the napraxon and colchicine when they get an attack. limp around for a few weeks, and then go on normal. not for me. I don't want joint damage. I ache enough.