If you do not know, my husband only has one kidney which puts him around stage 2-3 kidney disease and let me tell you what. Gout is no joke. If you do not know what gout is, it is where your uric acid and crystals cannot escape the body because your body cannot get rid of it and it attacks your joints causing you pain the the point you cannot even more or anything.
Everything hurts and it makes life difficult. It can attack the hands, knees, ankles, toes, fingers, knuckles, elbows, ribs, back, arms, legs, pretty much anywhere it can get into and it will put you down.
With gout, you get these things called Tophi's which are the gout crystals coming to the surface of your skin and you can see them. They look like white blisters however, they can pop randomly if you knock it onto something and the one thing they are prone to doing is becoming infected and draining.
Gout is nothing to play with. One day you are feeling fine and able to move and walk, the next, you are down in so much pain you cannot handle it begging for relief.
They switched my husband's Allopurinol and it made everything worst. They bumped him up to 300 and his flare ups have been much worst but once he stopped taking them it got a little bit better. He is also on Colchicine everyday because nothing is helping it. He is also on prednisone daily and a few other medications but none of it is really helping.
They are trying to get him approved for Krystexxa through insurance which is an infusion that helps break down and clear out the uric acid. This pretty much will give his life back but the thing is with this is that they give you a steroid and allergy medications every treatment to help your body fight it. Not only that it is every two weeks you have to go through it.
We have learned that fish and seafood is not your friend along with a lot of other foods. Tart of Cherry can help with it also and that black walnut can help it also. Be sure to keep things like Nerve which is a roll on tincture oh an supposedly anything with cayenne pepper tincture can help also.
Heating pad is your friend so is elevation. Ice can cause a lot more pain and be sure take it easy and rest. Oh and things that support you such as a a bed rail that can help you sit up, some kind of urinal because getting up to go to the bathroom is sometimes difficult some kind of wide toed shoe, and a shoe that is easy to get on and off.
Be sure to stay hydrated because uric acid leaves through peeing so body armors and water and green tea is good for this.
You also may need help so be sure to reach out when you need it and make sure you have a good support system.
I'm always have to be the runner to help because he can't do it and he needs to eat and he needs his urinal cleaned. His flare ups last a few days to a week or two and then he is good for a while and then he is back down about a month or 2 later.
Flare ups are nothing to play with and they can put a person down for days at a time.
