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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
None of my business but....
What did the doctor say about your foot?
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well, he took a look at it, confirmed that i drink beer, and stated it was gout. i told him i didn't believe it was gout and tried explaining why i thought that, which would have led to other tests, but he was convinced. so, to prove me wrong, he ordered a uric acid blood test, which turned out negative. so i don't have gout.
at this point, i don't know for SURE what the problem is, but i am pretty sure that it is calcium/magnesium related (due to my over-consumption of beer).
one of the drugs he gave me, indamethacin, is nasty stuff (sudden cardiac death and other fun things) and i didn't take any, believing that it wasn't gout. when the nurse called to tell me the results of my normal levels of uric acid, she said. "if i were you, i'd stop taking the indamethacin immediately." i didn't inform her that indamethacin never entered my temple.
so... the upshot is this: i am going to finally stop drinking beer (its been four days). i just drink too much of the stuff and i don't seem to have an upper limit. i have also been taking some magnesium supplements, which will also resolve the calcium issue, if i am correct.
so far, i feel better than i did a week ago, overall, mostly (if not entirely) due to the fact that i haven't been drinking a crap ton of beer. the foot is getting better, but is still swollen. the swelling is going to take a while because (again, assuming i am correct) the calcium crystals causing all the irritation will need to resolve and this is going to take some time. i also have been drinking tonic, as quinine is an anti-inflammatory and quinalone, one of the drugs they give to combat calcium crystals, is derived from quinine. yeah, the amount of quinine in tonic is very low, but a proper dose of quinine or quinalone is more or less toxic.
my plan for the near and intermediate future is to continue not drinking beer, get a PCDoc, have some tests done, probably starting with simple electrolytes, followed by rheumatoid arthritis markers. and probably a lead test.
what i am doing right this minute, magnesium supplements and tonic, cannot possibly hurt me, IMO, so i'll continue with that until i can get the other ducks in a row. frankly, this is a great excuse to quit the beer and pretty strong negative feedback.