[Leica] Gout?

[jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)]

And give up beer. The alcohol AND the purines in it are bad news.

lrzeitlin at aol.com wrote:
> Lluis,
> If you are unfortunate enough to have gout rather than a simple 
> sprain, I literally feel your pain. A few years back I went to my 
> doctor because I was afraid that I had broken my toe. "No," he 
> reassured me. "You have joined the British aristocracy. You have gout."
> "But don't worry," he told me, "after a few weeks of agonizing pain, 
> it will go away. At least until the next time." And, he was right.
> I don't mean to practice medicine without a license but there is a 
> therapy that works fairly well for me. I take a .6 milligram 
> colchicine tablet every morning as a preventive. If I start having 
> gout symptoms, I up the dosage until I get diarrhea. That usually 
> aborts the episode. No one really knows how colchicine works but it 
> has been used for gout for several hundred years. The alternative is 
> to give up meat, chocolate, and red wine. A fate almost worse than the 
> gout pain itself.
> But however you treat your knee pain, take good care of yourself. You 
> give the soul to the LUG.
> Larry Z
>
>
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