g out

[jazzfish]

After a lovely weekend, including some fantastic music, a very rich dinner on Saturday night, and a lot of good time just /being/ with Erin, I came home Sunday evening with a somewhat sore left foot for no readily apparent reason. Specifically, a sharp pain in the side of the foot, just behind the big toe joint.

It didn't get any better yesterday, and in fact I think got worse. Walking was a Problem. I called the BC nurse line and described it and got "yeah, you should probably go in to the clinic."

This morning the guy at the clinic took one look, poked it briefly, and said "I'm thinking gout."

Bleh. Yay for it not being some weird muscle or nerve thing, I guess, but... bleh.

He gave me a gout-specific painkiller, which does a really good job of dulling the pain pretty quickly but never does anything more than "dulling," and sent me for x-rays and a blood test, and I guess we'll know more in a couple of weeks when the actual doctor is back from vacation.

Oh well. I've known I need to make some dietary adjustments anyway, and to Lose Some Weight. Meanwhile it hurts enough that it takes serious effort to really concentrate on anything. And standing and walking around is just Not On unless absolutely necessary.

And I deeply regret getting rid of my sword-cane now.

Bah.

Comments

[darkfyre_muse]

So first I had to look up gout. (So no more organ meat for you) And now I'm like well maybe if I get another tattoo and hit a few more concerts this year the fates will continue to miss that I am old.

And yea for so many reasons you should have kept the sword cane.

Hugs, miss you.

[jazzfish]

I /will/ miss organ meat, actually. I like chicken livers, and the couple of times Erin's cooked beef heart it's been pretty tasty too. And I need to cut back on soda (easy) and apparently limeade (harder, but just means I need to step up my effort to switch to iced tea), but honestly that's been true for months.

The thing about apartment life is that I really don't have room for that much random cool stuff, and when I moved into the condo I got tired of hauling it around. /: Oh well.

And yes, more tattoos and concerts (and maybe The Burn) are a good idea in general. :)

*hug*

[malkingrey]

My brother has gout (among his many other ailments), and it's nasty. Also, people who haven't got it, and don't know anyone who has it, tend not to take it seriously. It conjures up images of gouty eighteenth-century squires hell-bent on hanging poachers -- though as my brother said once, if they felt like he did, he could see how they felt that way.

[jazzfish]

Ha! That seems accurate. It is, I think, the worst ongoing pain I've ever experienced.

[reedrover]

Ow and I'm sorry!

[jazzfish]

Thanks. /: Not recommended.

[sartorias]

Oh, pooh. I hope you can figure out a way to get rid of it.

[jazzfish]

Me too, though it seems like it's mostly a "manage" as opposed to "cure" kind of thing. /:

[greenstorm]

Let's talk about chickens and any veggies you might like to eat before I finalize my garden plans this summer.

[jazzfish]

I'm getting conflicting reports on whether "red meat" or "all meat" is bad for gout, but I'm definitely up for that conversation regardless. <3

[thanate]

Ah the fun of semi-anachronistic medical conditions. Hope you can work out decent coping strategies.

[jazzfish]

Thanks. Bleh. Bad come to worse, there's a maintenance medication I can take that sounds like it does a really good job of preventing outbreaks.