Well guys, things haven’t been going the way I expected or hoped for. I got over my cold and gout flare up since the beginning of the year, but my feet haven’t been the same since. My feet have been feeling stiff and not fully flexible, so percentage-wise about 90%. …
I personally only know 2 other people with gout. Two friends. One is fairly young, only 34. And the other is 49 and he’s been getting gout flare ups for close to 2 decades. I talk to both of them regularly about their gout experiences and I share my experiences …
Happy New Year everyone! If I’m being honest, the start of my new year hasn’t been great. I returned from a mountain retreat on New Year’s Eve, and I caught a cold in the process. The retreat had the perfect recipe for catching a cold: big crowds, people coughing, cold …
Today morning I woke up to a minor gout flare up on my left foot. Thank God, this one doesn’t feel like a full-on flare up. Can’t blame anyone but myself. I went on a week long trip with my family and I ended up drinking everyday. This is what …
Well guys, it’s been 4 months since my last gout flare up. It took me 6+ years to get a better understanding of my body and why gout was such a problem for me. Over those years, I sort of tested which foods or drinks was causing me to flare …
Gout flare up pain can be excruciation, and there are varying levels of pain based on severity. To give you an idea, here are some pain comparisons that people with gout have made: worse than or equal to a heart attack worse than or equal to a broken bone or …
I noticed that I’ve been having lingering joint stiffness even after my gout flare up has subsided. It almost feels like the medicine doesn’t fully remove all the uric acid from the joints. This is a change for me because before when I’d take the medicine it would get rid …
I’ve endured some painful days while dealing with a gout flare up. And some of those days, I didn’t have any medicine to get me through. It just happens – you sometimes run out of medicine before the next flare up and it may be on a weekend when you …
The first time I got a gout flare up was in 2017 when I was 41. I was at a conference in Las Vegas for my work at that time. Vegas was nothing new to me – I had been going to Vegas with my buddies every year for at …