How can something so small cause so much misery?

My dad was eat up with it. He tried everything and he went to our old family doc when no one elese could help. Doc told him to eat cranberries. He hasn't had any problems for about 8years now.

Always heard it was awful, hope I never know. Although I had turf two in both of my feet for the better part of 4-5 months. Couldn’t seem to get well. Now I know why pro athletes sit out for games with it. What seemed to hurt the worst was when I was driving and had them relaxed. Go figure.

One of the toughest men I ever knew told me it hurt to even put the bed sheet over his feet.

VERY painful , I've had it about four times.

The first time I got it was September of 2016. I was a Africa ( Limpopo) hunting, woke up one morning and thought I had broke my Big toe. thru the day it got in both feet, they wanted me to go to the clinic there, NOPE! it went away after a couple of days, but man I wanted to cut my feet off.

Now, I get it quite regularly if I don't watch what I eat.

I've had broken toes.
Very painful and difficult to walk.

Best thing I’ve ever done was to go to the Dr. and asked to be put on Allopurinol! Very rarely have a flare up. Gout is almost as bad as Kidney stones. Almost.

You're right, I did say that.

I don't know how it can hurt to have a bed sheet touch your toe, but when you're having a gout attack, it dang sure does. I've had kidney stones, broken bones, torn ligaments, cuts, surgeries, etc and I've never experienced anything that hurts as bad as gout.

I found my trigger food. Pinto beans. Really any type of bean, except green beans and lima beans. I can eat all the skrimps, and whatever else I want but if I eat a helping of pintos, or a bowl of taco soup with kidney and black beans in it, I'm going to be in major pain the next day or earlier.

Mine is not in my big toe, it's in my 2nd and 3rd toes.

In case some of you haven't tried it, INDOMETHACIN, will knock mine out. After one dose the pain is tolerable and I can walk without limping 24-36 hours later. Very little pain, just soreness after that until it's gone. Usually 4-5 days of it will knock it out. It's an NSAID that reduces uric acid levels.

I am not going on a gout medication that I have to take every day unless there are no other options....

One thing I did this summer was, once cherries came into season, I froze several bags of them. I used the last ones when I had a flare up around Christmas. Cherries help a bunch.

I went on the daily meds to help prevent Gout and kidney stones. I can’t complain. I also don’t blame you for not wanting to go on daily meds. Unfortunately it was my only option.

No doubt, I must tout that a bout of gout will about make you pout and shout till you get it all out. Don't go that route, have a gout drought, don't drink the stout, eat the trout or even a bean sprout. Ok, I got that out of my system.

I have had several gout flare-ups over the last several years and a few of them have been real hum-dingers. It's not an exaggeration to say it hurts to have a sheet touch your toe. As a matter of fact it can be downright excruciating to touch it as lightly as you can do purposely. SS69 is correct about the allopurinol being good for prevention and Fur is too about the cherries. Avoiding my trigger foods along with those preventative measures is the best route for me to be pain free. I eat fresh cherries in season and keep a few jars of Knudson's Just Tart Cherry juice in the fridge. At the first twinge of discomfort I will start cherry binging. That means eating 20 or so cherries a few times a day or drink at least a quart of the juice in a 24 hour period. That usually knocks it out before it gets to bad. I don't miss a day taking my allopurinol either.

It is the worst pain I’ve ever had. I first got it about 6 years ago. I thought that I had somehow stumped my toe. First time it went away not too paInful. The next time damn!!! I said something is bad wrong, went to Dr and got a shot in the joint, and that hurt about as bad, but it was instant relief. Since then, I’ve had it about 4 times in each big toe, twice in my ankle, and the last time in my elbow, and that was no joke. After a number of shots and trial and error, I have finally figured out how to dose Colchicin to stop it once I feel it coming on. And as Fur said, I finally figured out the number one trigger food for me, Crawfish!! Something I love to eat, but I will not touch it now.

My wife sucks on my big toe. Cleared it right up.

I begged the doctor to cut my foot off at 1 point,I had a flair up that just would not go away,most pain I had ever been in. The last flair up I had was in both feet,and left knee,I was completely disabled.I discovered Allopurinol,as a preventive med,and Colchicin for my flair ups. I am never pain free anymore,but I can tolerate the ache in my right toe joint.

I feel for people that have it all the time. The only time I’ve ever had it was in my right big toe. Some one hear had mentioned eating the cherries and I did that and backed off the red meat and luckily have had a problem in years

Had gout for 12 years. Few times I've had flare ups last 3 months. You can't imagine the pain a damn toe can cause but it gets almost unbearable at times. Can't stand for air to even blow on it. I had it bad a few years ago during deer season but was determined to hunt. I came outta a shooting house at dark one day being very careful about what I was doing as to not hit my foot on anything. I ended up slipping on a step and fell about 4 feet down to the bottom of the steps and I thought I was gonna pass out from the pain. I don't like taking medicine at all so I don't take allopurinal like the doc tells me to do I just try to watch what I eat. My main trigger is peanuts for some reason so as long as I stay away from them in usually ok. I keep Prednisone on hand because that's the only thing that helps when I get a flare up. I have tried indomethicin and Colcrys and neither of them do a thing for me .

I do not get gout but my husband has suffered from it for many years. Once we figured out what was happening years ago, we were diligent about paying attention to what we ate that triggered attacks. His trigger foods are shellfish [any type], asparagus and spinach. Dried beans sometimes but not very often. Not sure what the difference in dried and fresh is but the dried beans have an impact.

He takes a preventative every day and for the last several years, that has pretty much kept his gout in check. However, he recently had some neck surgery and the surgery triggered a bad attack. He got it in his ankle, knees and elbows and it totally debilitated him. He could not stand or walk and in addition to being one day out of surgery he could not have been more miserable. Thank goodness, our daughter is a nurse practitioner and made a house call to give him a couple of shots that alleviated the excruciating pain fairly quickly. Even so, it took days for the soreness to be completely eliminated.

We also keep cherries handy when they are in season and cherry juice. Like I said, I don't get it but I have been beside a grown man with tears running down his face because the pain was so excruciating. It is a terrible aiment that I would not wish on anyone.

I’ve never had “the gouch” but I can tell it hurts bad by the way it looks.