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Do you have P.C. and Gout?
Yes I have Gout - 37.5% - 6 votes
No I do not have gout - 62.5% - 10 votes
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Posted 6/30/2011 11:51 PM (GMT 0)
How many guys here @ healing well have P.C. and gout. Just wondering if there is a corralation
Posted 7/1/2011 12:21 AM (GMT 0)
i have heard that connection talked about before
Posted 7/1/2011 1:07 AM (GMT 0)
Have been dealing with it for several years. Adds a new significance to the idea of bouncing out of bed in the morning. A very, very painful one.

I get hit every few months so hard I can't stand up.

Posted 7/1/2011 1:15 AM (GMT 0)
Got my first gout attack at age 34. Thought I had fractured a bone in my foot while weight lifting. Have had several nasty flares over the years but in the last ten or so I have been able to control it by watching my diet. Purines are the instigators of many an attack. I have been taking 1000 mg of vitamin C daily for the last five years and have had only two or three mild attacks. One or two 50 mg tablets of indomethacin and the problem is gone.

I was not aware that gout had a relationship to CaP.

Don

Posted 7/1/2011 2:20 AM (GMT 0)
This is an interesting topic. I had an episode about 20 years ago in my right great toe. It was a terrific pain, as bad as a kidney stone in my opinion ( I had two of those a year later). Nothing I took helped, the sheets on the bed were intolerable against my toe. I limped to my doc the next day and he drew some fluid off and gave me a strong pain killer, it gradually improved. I have had a couple of episodes since but none as bad as the first.
Posted 7/1/2011 2:24 AM (GMT 0)
Add w-o to have gout. Been under control with allopurinol. Unless you are part of this club, you can't imagine the pain.
Posted 7/1/2011 2:47 AM (GMT 0)
I have been on sort of a low carb routine for years to keep my weight in some kind of check. When I overdo the red meat and cheese, I get gout in my toes and ankles.

I can honestly say I have not seen any change in my status since PC diagnosis. I wonder if the Ht may have some effect on it?
Posted 7/1/2011 4:12 AM (GMT 0)
The reason I brought it up was that I have several friends at work who have Pca and a full third of them have gout. Seeing as uric acid is the culprit for the gout I wondered if it put us guys with gout in a higher risk group for Pca.
Posted 7/1/2011 9:17 AM (GMT 0)
I'm actually trying to decide if I have gout or not. Most of what I've read makes me think I don't. On the other hand I'm currently having a flare up of what ever it is... Great right toe at the ball of my foot hurts but is only mildy discomforting. Walking is worse - standing on my tippy toes came bring me to my knees....

Any thoughts?

Posted 7/1/2011 11:47 AM (GMT 0)
Steve, if you had gout there would be no question, you would know it. The pain comes on swiftly and is extreme.

I have had gout attacks since my late 20's. Now controlled with allopurinol. Gout runs in my family. Both of my brothers have had attacks, but only I have PCa. I think that the only relationship between PCa and gout is that they mostly hit older men.
Posted 7/1/2011 12:04 PM (GMT 0)
TODD- I see this post as making it official today= VETERAN status.

Best to you amigo.
Posted 7/1/2011 1:12 PM (GMT 0)
I also have gout. I try to limit meat. I take quercetin and sometimes celery seed which control it.
Posted 7/1/2011 1:56 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks BB_Fan ..... I did go out and do my normal two mile walk this morning...I only have pain if I flex the big toe too much... It is weird that I just came off a one month with no problems. But, guess I'll have to break down and have it looked at... Don't want to loose one of my wheels.

Posted 7/1/2011 2:11 PM (GMT 0)
Steve,

I usually describe the pain of a gout attack like this:

Break up one of the old green 1960's Coke bottles - the ones that split into tiny shards that cut in every direction. Stick them into your foot, thousands per square inch. Put a nice heavy, tight sock over that. Now you can feel what it is like to wake up and drag the sheet over the ball of your foot. Beyond excruciating. Then stand up on it, if you can.

I've spent days with my foot propped up, nothing touching it, hoping that there won't be so much as a breeze over it.

My dad had it as well. Don't know if it is supposed to be hereditary.

Posted 7/1/2011 3:09 PM (GMT 0)
Another consideration is that kidney stones form from high uric acid levels. Though I'm not certain he had gout, my father was plagued by kidney stones.

Drink lots of water my friends. And easy on the: mushrooms, anchovies, alcohol, red meat, lentils, & liver.
Posted 7/1/2011 6:29 PM (GMT 0)
A positive Gout indicator: the affected area is bright red.

In two brief distasteful brushes with Gout (caused by trauma), my left big toe was excruciatingly painful and fire-engine red. Hard to forget.

I perceive no connection between PCa and Gout In my particular case. On the other hand, a free-wheeling See-Food diet, as has been mentioned, is doubtless a contributary factor.

Mitch in SC

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