zog said:
Resound wrote:
> I am profoundly annoyed. Of all the things I could get, I get fscking GOUT!
> I mean...WTF? I don't drink heavily, I eat ok, all the rest of it and I have
> bloody arthritis at the age of 34? spit spit dummy expectoration.
>
> Ouch.
>
having seen my Dad get it every now and then I have seen how painfull it
is, he was not a heavy drinker either, just hope I don't get it.
maybe a review of your diet might help
http://www.rheumatology.org.nz/nz08003.htm
Hereditary - my paternal grandmother, my father and then me. I was 46 when it started last year, my father was in mis 30's.
It used to be considered to be an affliction of the rich and idle. Now with the poor people eating food of the quality that the rich ate a few hundred years ago, it is no longer associated with rich fat old burghers, although be prepared for hilarity at your expense when you tell your workmates. This is a form of arthritis for which you will get no sympathy from the general populace. The more pain you exhibit, the more they will laugh. Bastards.
Rich living does not cause it, your body's' inability to deal effectively with uric acid causes it, ie crystals of uric salts forming in your joints.
Red meat, shellfish, red wines, legumes exacerbate it.
If it is really bad and is chronic (ie, in medical terms, long lasting), there is medication to lower the level of uric acid in your system.
I am also lucky enough to make stones in my kidneys. (Something else I inherited from my fatehr). Lovely spikey stones with sharp crystalline structures on the outside. They cause pain all the way from the kidney until they reach the outside world. For this I should drink lots of water. I should not get dehydrated. My doc said on a flight bewteen Perth and Melbourne, I should drink sufficient water that I need to visit the toilet 3 times during the flight. I should drink lots of water and get an aisle seat whenever I fly.
When I am hydrating properly, I do not get kidney stones AND I do not get attacks of gouty arthritis.
Hydration, hydration, hydration.
Steve(at least I got my Dad's low cholesterol when I inherited the family health characteristics)A