Krystexxa for gout

Krystexxa is an infusion that they give for gout. However it is not your normal infusion. 

 

For starters you have to take a steroid and an allergy med before you can even start the infusion because it can send you into allergic response. 

 

You also have 2 days out of every two weeks you have to go for this. One day is for blood work for uric acid the next day is for the infusion.It is given while you are at the facility. 

 

If you did not know Krystexxa can pretty much give you a severe allergic reaction and they have a lot of precautions for it. They start giving you Methotrexate 4 weeks prior to help with the immune systems to avoid reactions.

There are things that they do not tell you about this. Such as it may or may not be beneficial to you. It takes a while for the insurance to even touch and clear it if they do. It cost 30,000 to $35,000 per 8 mg single-dose via but with the doctors and nurses and the facility it costs 135k-150k each time.

It takes joint stiffness start to leave in 24 hours. You can end up having even worst flareups within that time period.

The bad part some of the flare ups can last up to a month and a lot of people report no flare ups.

A lot of people also report it may work it may not work.

If they draw the uric acid that determines if it works or does not work or if its even worth continuing.

The first visit it could show an effect but the second visit it could of not work so it is a toss up.

My husband has finally gotten approved for this but we already know his job is going to let him go because of everything so I am trying to find ways to make money on the side while I am taking care of him and our kids and homeschooling them. 

He still battles with  Rheumatoid arthritis, gout, kidney disease osteoarthritis so this may or may not help him the way they say it is. 

If you would like to help us out, you can stop by my recommends. This would help me a lot with figuring everything out. My recommendations here!

 Read about his gout and more here! 

Husband and Gout and RA

 My husband has real bad gout. He also has Rheumatoid Arthritis. His gout flares up throughout his elbows, wrist, hands, knees, feet and occasionally the ribs. It just now recently spread to his feet and his toes are no longer curled like they use to be. 

He also gets knots on his feet and ankles when it starts and then he has the pain and swelling. When his elbow starts it gets hard and turns red. 

It apparently is straightening them out but his other toes on the other foot is curled still. The RA is not good either because it makes it hard for him to move and just overall is not pleasurable and I honestly hate to watch him suffer and he cannot do anything and I cannot
do anything to help him until it goes down. 

He learned that his shoes where one of the causes. He was told he wore 13s but he got to looking and he realized that they were to big and his foot had to much room and was bouncing around the shoe and causing ungodly amount of pain. 

He ended up going to Walmart and finding out he is a 10.5 however, he only wears high-tops because it supports his ankle and hamstring especially when he flares but. He also learned that the 10.5 is hurting him a little because his feet
swells and he needs something a little wider and we finally got him some wide and he is doing a lot better.

I also got him a cane. Well two canes. One has a arms rest like thing to help him get up and use the cane as support. The other cane has springs on the bottom and it helps him move around since it recoils back to him. 

He also uses a walker when he cannot walk as good with the cane. 

He has an armrest well two armrest for his computer because he works from home and his elbow swells out to the point he cannot lay it anywhere but the armrest helps because he can lay it on there and it helps so he is still able to use his arm. 

He highly recommends getting lightweight shoes so they are not heavy on the foot and get shoes that allows your feet to breathe in. He also suggests heating pads because it can help it also. Lots to rest and hydration and be sure to know what causes your flare ups. There are foods that are suppose to be avoided. 

His flare ups are sugary drinks, seafood. He also does have random flare ups.

We do use roll on the Nervive pain relief and that works better with RA flare ups.

Sometimes his gout flare ups and Rheumatoid flare ups look the same and it often time is hard to distinguish it so we treat both the same.

There was also this foot rub salve cayenne pepper that works great on it but we unfortunately can no longer find it.

Here is the gout diet.

Get the cane here!

Arm braces here for Desks

Wide toe box shoes here