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Subject: [Leica] Gout?
From: lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll Querol)
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:47:59 +0100
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Thank you Phil, this is just I'm doing ...

Best!
Lluis

El 26/10/2009, a las 0:34, Philip Leeson escribi?:

> Actually, in the knee, Pseudogout is more likely than gout.
> Feels the same, but different crystals:  Gout is uric acid,  
> pseudogout is calcium pyrophosphate (also known as CPPDD)
> A needle in the knee and sending the fluid for crystal analysis is  
> the way to get a diagnosis.
> The other diagnoses mentioned are evident on physical exam.
> The initial treatment of both is rest and usually anti-inflammatory  
> medicines ....
>
> Phil
>
> On Oct 25, 2009, at 5:54 PM, Steve Barbour wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 25, 2009, at 3:42 PM, 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.
>>
>> Against the possible diagnosis of gout, stands the likelihood that  
>> Lluis never touches these things....
>>
>> Also I recall that gout usually starts in and involves the small  
>> joints esp the feet...
>>
>> Seems more likely that Lluis was involved in some sort of physical  
>> interaction with the senorita, and one of the seven veils,
>>
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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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Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Gout?)
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