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« Reply #75 on: October 07, 2007, 01:09:22 PM »
Excellent, keep up the great labs girlfriend   :clap; (now go get that prescription filled) ;) ;) 
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« Reply #76 on: October 07, 2007, 01:28:18 PM »
Good job re: lab results.  Now all we need to know is that you have your prescription and you can start taking the medicine.  You know we worry about you!
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« Reply #77 on: October 07, 2007, 01:57:31 PM »
Quote from: bajanne2000 on October 07, 2007, 01:06:11 PM
My nephrologist passed by with lots of good news concerning my end of month blood results.  He also announced that he is leaving the country. 

Good news! Glad to hear it!

Is he leaving the country permanently?
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« Reply #78 on: December 21, 2008, 02:02:56 AM »
 :shy; :shy; :shy;    gout again!  this time in my right hand.  can't even type with my hand.   it started yesterday and i just woke  in the middle of the night and the pain is severe.  for a while the pharmacy had no allopurinol.  i asked about it two days ago and then forgot to get it.  now i have to deal with this!  i will get an Indomethacin prescription in the morning.
i thought it was an infection at first.  ihad forgotten about gout.....  this is more than a year since i have had it...
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« Reply #79 on: December 21, 2008, 02:27:16 AM »
just found a means of some temporary relief - cold water on the area!
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« Reply #80 on: December 21, 2008, 07:38:46 AM »
OUCH!  Sorry to hear you're in pain  :cuddle;
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« Reply #81 on: December 21, 2008, 07:50:38 AM »
I am just getting over a bout of gout in my big toe. Ugh!  It was painful!.  My Neph put me on a 6 day course of prednisone. 6,5,4,3,2,1.  The pain was gone after the first two days, but I was told to finish them all.  I had been forgetting to take my allopurinol and paid for it.BTW, I was thought to be allergic to allopurinol at first, but my Neph sent me to an allergist who started me off on miniscule amounts and gradually built up tolerance, so now I can take it.  Hope this info helps someone as the pain is SO debilitating!  Cheers and Merry Christmas!
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« Reply #82 on: December 21, 2008, 08:13:52 AM »
I've had only two episodes with gout and we treated it with prednisone too.  I take 5 mg daily anyway and for the gout we upped it a bit and decreased slowly.  About four days in total as I recall.  No reoccurrence in over a year.
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« Reply #83 on: December 21, 2008, 01:58:52 PM »
Bajanne,  I am sorry you have gout again.  It is unbelievable pain.  Please take you medicine.   At the start of the thread, Goofynina and I were going to fly down there to make sure you got your prescription!    She would be telling you to take you medicine.  She would be sorry you are going through this again.  Sending you love   :cuddle;
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« Reply #84 on: December 21, 2008, 06:29:01 PM »
I was on Indomethacin for a month and vicodin only at night when I couldn't take it anymore. Ice packs definitely helped me. My toe still hurts though. It's stiff, and when I try to bend it - it hurts. I've been wearing sneakers over a month. Tried to wear shoes and said nope. My first bout was 14 months ago. Same toe. When it was really swollen, I'd sleep on the couch with my foot up on top of the couch. good luck feel better!
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« Reply #85 on: December 21, 2008, 08:57:52 PM »
Well, the pain was really awful today.  I couldn't even dress myself without help.  At dialysis today, my nurse called through to Emergency/Casualty to make things easier for me.  I went there and saw a doctor who gave me a prescription for Indomethacin.  Since all pharmacies would have been closed, he gave me enough for a few days.  He also gave me a prescription for Allopurinol.  I have taken two doses of indomethacin, and the pain is subsiding already.  I am now typing with both hands!
I was thinking about Goofynina and how she would have dealt with me for not taking my medication properly!  Please don't let her know!  I promise to take the Allopurinol religiously when the pain is totally gone!
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« Reply #86 on: December 22, 2008, 05:05:30 PM »
Goofynina would have  :Kit n Stik; :Kit n Stik; :Kit n Stik; you for not taking your meds!
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« Reply #87 on: December 23, 2008, 06:44:05 PM »
I can just hear her!!!!!!
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« Reply #88 on: January 09, 2009, 03:36:13 PM »
I have gout,  wow it sucks. It is so painful.  I take colchicine, allopurinol, and from time to time I get a cortisone shot if it is bad enough.
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« Reply #89 on: January 10, 2009, 09:22:42 AM »
MandaMe,  those are the meds I take and they seem to really help.  I will do anything to keep it at bay!   
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« Reply #90 on: January 10, 2009, 02:19:20 PM »
Quote from: paris on January 10, 2009, 09:22:42 AM
MandaMe,  those are the meds I take and they seem to really help.  I will do anything to keep it at bay!   

Yeah for the most part it dose keep it at bay. *smile*  But it dose still act up more then I would like.  Probly 1 to 2 times a month.  I know that isn't too bad, but it still gets old after a while.  Where dose it effect you the most?  It acts up in my right foot the most.
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« Reply #91 on: January 10, 2009, 02:33:19 PM »
Toes and ankles - end up on crutches and just can't move.  What a stupid thing to have!  I thought only King Henry and people like that got it!   :rofl;   Thank God for medicine!
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« Reply #92 on: March 18, 2009, 06:46:34 AM »
OMG!! I have GOUT  it is so Painful. This is the first time i have ever gotten it in my knee. I usually get it in my feet but not this time it is so awful..  At first I thought that I had pulled something since I have been working out. But then i got my Blood results from the Dr and he said asked if I had GOUT I said my Feet don't hurt but my Knee does. Come to find out I had it in my Knee..  i do not wish this upon anyone. 
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« Reply #93 on: March 18, 2009, 07:11:22 AM »
I had it a long, long time ago.  I don't know why it stopped but after more than 30 years I still remember how much it hurt.  Go ahead and scream.  They use to  say the pain was equivalent to giving birth.  I've never done that so I don't really know.

I too  allopure (spell) and  zyloprim (I think).  One prevented it and one would get rid of it once the pain started.  Can't remember which on that either.

I was once consider for kings, etc. and called a rich man's disease.  Supposedly that thought it was from a diet rich in red meats and red wines.  I stopped eating red meat but and switched to Chardonnay.  Later doctors said it had nothing much to do with diet... who knows.  OMG, your post brought back some unpleasant memories.  I'm thinking about you.
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« Reply #94 on: March 18, 2009, 07:35:05 AM »
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« Reply #95 on: May 13, 2009, 09:56:49 AM »
I've had gout which started about 3 years ago.  So far, all that has been needed is aspirin, which I already take due to one previous stroke, and total avoidance of Beef and Seafood (especially crustaceans).  Thank God.  It was terribly painful.  I tried eating shrimp about a year after the first attack and it returned within 12 hours.
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« Reply #96 on: May 16, 2009, 09:45:17 AM »
I understand very well about gout BUT (knock on wood) I have NOT had an attack since I went on hemo  2 yeras ago.

Of course I try not to eat the foods I knew was a trigger.
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