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Smoked and cured meat are not your friends. Jerky is verboten. Obviously booze of any kind and seafood. Tart cherry juice, not just cherry or black cherry, and drink a lot of it. Hydration with plenty of water during the day helps. If I have a flare up, I hit it with Thor's Hammer with a 5 day Prednisone dose. Haven't had a flare in two years since starting Allpurinol. Good stuff.

Truth!

+1…. Works for me too

Hydrate, lay off so much beer.

Colchicine and Indomethacin to get it under control. Once the episode has passed start Allopurinol or Uloric as a preventative to keep it away.

I get it occasionally in an old ankle sprain.

Another reason alcohol is not my friend.

Watch the sugar intake. Processed, refined, carbohydrates, high fructose corn syrup.

It takes a pretty good doctor to tell the difference between gout and pseudo-gout. I am plagued by pseudo-gout, according to my GP, about all can be done is OTC anti inflammatories and a schidt ton of water.

They are terrible for your liver and kidneys but those 800mg ibuprofens work great. I am assuming that your doctor diagnosed the gout through blood tests or some other test. Was your ankle hot to the touch? Does it feel like you have ground up glass in your ankle? Never heard steroids get recommended or it only occurring in old injuries. Not saying it isn't gout, just never heard of that. I have only really heard of Allopurinol and Colchicine being prescribed for it. I take Allopurinol and have not had a flare up in over 10 years.

Well with two bad knees, get a replacement or suck it up. Nothing really helps. Some days are better than others.

My uric acid levels are always above 7, I take allopurinol and colchicine daily. I have had gout battles for 20 years, you never know what is going to set that off.

I haven't seen or been told that old injuries have much to do with it. I've broken every bone in both legs and several in each foot...doesn't seem to be a factor. I have body wide rheumatoid arthritis as well. I have them all, Diclofenac, Fenoprofen Flurbiprofen Indomethacin ..probably won't have kidneys or a liver here soon enough.

welcome to hell

I've learned to cope with my reconstructed ankle.
Getting old ain't for wimps.

I suffer from a similar issue in both feet.. Nascent Iodine has really made a huge difference for me. I've been taking for about a year and it took three weeks to experience relief of the pain and inflammation.. Start off with the 14-16 drops per day and when it kicks in I dropped down to 5-6 drops per day.. Crazy, but it worked for me.. I've had complete big toe joint replacement in the right foot and some supporting hardware and have the left scheduled for July 15th.. FWIW..

** if you are eating Granola bars - STOP... it was causing my Gout flare ups, and I haven’t had one since I dropped them.

Bitter cherry juice does work well to kill a flare up as well.

It turns out that whole grain wheat raises Cain with allergic reactions & Gout... so Granola bars that are full of wheat & corn syrup ... are BAD, BAD stuff.

Amazing what one can learn hanging out here. I didn't know about any of this, but learned something today. Thanks

I found that one out via my Allergist, who (now retired) was one of the best allergy research guys.

In the last couple of years they have found out that MILK & Whole Wheat are triggers for allergies and other reactions - so this is recently confirmed research.

I cutout Whole wheat (bread & granola bars) ... and Zero Gout flare ups now vs. 3-5 of them I was having the last 5 years.

I haven’t cut out Milk yet - but man it’s great not having Gout... and I don’t miss the whole wheat at all !!