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Seeing as I lurk this site non-stop I figured it might be a good place to pop this question.
Anyone suffer from gout? Do you have any sure fire remedies apart from the easily searched interweb. I eat cherries use goutrin take bromaline drink straight apple cider vinegar. This attack is really hurting me and Im kinda delirious right now. Share your gout stories.

Im sure its the drugs but that made me laugh my *** off. Thanks i feel a little better.

Death is a sure cure for Gout. See your doctor and he might prescribe something for you.

I don't know if weeks start or end on Sunday, but either way, that is sure to be the worst post of the week.

I think it was for arthritis and not for gout, but my dad was a nibbler of gin-soaked raisins.

A friend of mine has gout. He has to watch what he eats and pay attention to early signs of an attack. Beer and red meat tend to be particular problems for him and garlic (his preference is pickled garlic) seems to give him some relief/protection. As long as he is mildly careful he can survive the occasional binge with grilled meat and beer, but he has been advised that spirits would cause less trouble than beer. The local hooch does seem to be less likely to set him off. YMMV, one of his pet peeves is that there seems to be a general lack of understanding about gout.

This comment caused me to frantically google how to avoid getting the gout.

Things that will increase your risk below, things that apply to me highlighted.

Being male
Family history of gout
Obesity
Moderate, regular, or heavy consumption of alcohol, especially beer
A diet rich in meat and seafood, which can be high in purines
Use of medicines that remove salt and water from the body (diuretics)
Regular use of aspirin (more than 1 or 2 aspirin a day)
Frequent episodes of dehydration
Acute illness or infection
Lead exposure (may occur through work, diet, or hobbies)
Very low-calorie diets
Injury to a joint

I think I'm in the clear, but yipes.

I have NO idea if this would work, and I know different joint pains are caused by different things, but when I get joint pain, Glucosamine and Cat's Claw works for me. Like, takes crying pain and turns it into nothing overnight, but not immediately. I kind of have to take it semi regularly to keep the joint pain away.

Actually, my family was pretty dry. (I didn't turn until a lush until I was well into my twenties.) The only alcohol I can ever recall seeing in the fridge was real egg nog at Christmas, and my mother's potion of choice was Very Strong Coffee. Nobody liked beer, and wine was what you drank on Sunday at church and complained about. It wasn't until my dad's arthritis (and gout, and other things) got very bad that he set up the candy dish with the gin soaked raisins, and that was because it was a folk remedy passed down from his mother. Something about the combination of the juniper and the sulfites in the golden raisins is supposed to be anti-inflammatory.

Didn't Bobby Hill get it during an episode of King of the Hill? Edit: And didn't some girl get scurvy on an episode of House?


Edited, Jul 12th 2011 1:58am by Poldaran

I remember hearing that scurvy is so uncommon in the US because EVERYTHING has vitamin C added to it... for marketing purposes. "juice... with vitamin C! Candy... with vitamin C! Pork rings... with vitamin C!"

It's the quick and easy way for marketing to pretend to be healthy. You just **** out the extra your body can't absorb so it doesn't actually do much, but the stuff is everywhere.

My father suffers from gout (which most older Filipino men do) but his attacks are far and between because my mom religiously watches his diet. And when his gout flares up, my mom knows that means he's been sneaking in the fatty salty food that tends to make gout worse (as well as beer).

I think it's Cochicine that my father's prescribed, but for my parents, it's more about living a healthy lifestyle. Fresh fruit and vegetables, lean protein, whole grains. We tend to have white rice for just about every meal, but my mom's rule is for every bite of rice, we have to balance it with a bite of protein and 3 bites of veggies.

Have you considered becoming addicted to pain killers?