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Catch22 - possible gout

LittleGreyCat

LittleGreyCat

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Suffolk, UK
Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Tablets (oral)
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Diet drinks - the artificial sweeteners taste vile.
Having to forswear foods I have loved all my life.
Trying to find low carb meals when eating out.
I have a sore foot.

Doctor suspects gout.

I will have a blood test on Monday for urates.

So I looked at the gout diet sheet.

There are certain foods that are very high in purines and should be considerably limited, if not avoided completely. These include:

Meat SourcesLiver, heart, kidney, sweetbreads, ox, game (eg, venison, rabbit), meat extracts (eg, stock cubes/gravies).
Fish SourcesAnchovies, crab, fish roes, herring, mackerel, trout, sardines, shrimps, sprats, whitebait.
Other SourcesYeast and extracts, beer, asparagus, cauliflower, mushrooms, beans and peas, spinach.

Also says don't eat a lot of red meat or fowl.

Eat lots of nice healthy carbs because they are low in purine.

Look at www.patient.co.uk/health/patient-diet-sheet.

Then weep if you are on a low carb diet.

Cheers

LGC
 
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What about alcohol? I had gout and was told I drink too much.

Yes I do drink too much but I don't always have gout.
 
Allegedly there is no proven link.
Beer is high in purines but wine is fine.
Main thing against alchohol is if it promotes weight gain.
 
I see from your sig you have discontinued your statin but just wanted to say that my mum was on that one and she got gout as a side effect, once she changed statins it cleared up and she is fine now on simvastatin , hope you get it sorted its a painful condition :(
 
My husband has suffered with gout for years. It only seems to flare up with him when he's been on the red wine and/or has been eating a rich diet...things like cream, pate, red meats, oily fish etc. Always seems to happen with overindulgence so I wouldn't worry too much. Everything in moderation...which as a diabetic it already is. He hasn't been told anything about carbs. :)
 
Let's pray it isn't gout.

A friend of mine's husband gets 'gout' every summer. Follows the high carb low veg style of eating. Not that much red meat or oily fish (lives on toast and sarnies as far as I can tell).

Oddly, he only seems to get the inflammation they call gout when he has been bitten by mozzies and/or gnats. And he only gets bitten when he hangs around cricket pitches watching his sons play...

So, obviously, spectating cricket causes gout. ;)

Sorry, shouldn't joke. Gout can be AGONY. You have my sympathy.
 
Do you know if he has had a blood test to confirm?

I sometimes swell up after insect bites but that certainly isn't gout.

I am now strongly suspecting gout as the swelling has gone down and there is inflammation around the big toe joint.

Thankfully it seems to be clearing up quite quickly.
 
LittleGreyCat said:
Do you know if he has had a blood test to confirm?

I sometimes swell up after insect bites but that certainly isn't gout.

I am now strongly suspecting gout as the swelling has gone down and there is inflammation around the big toe joint.

Thankfully it seems to be clearing up quite quickly.
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Yes, his tests come back 'inconclusive'.

And interestingly, he always seems to get the 'gout' in the foot of the leg that got bitten by the mozzie, even if the bite was on the thigh...:meh:
 
Hmmmmmm..............

There are similar things such as Bursitis where an inflammation can develop in a muscle sheath if you have an infection elsewhere in the body.

Still, if it feels like gout and treatment for gout clears it...
 
Thanks.
Still trying to decide if a positive for urates is good or bad news.
Because if it isn't gout it might be something more tricky.
 
LittleGreyCat said:
I have a sore foot. Doctor suspects gout.
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My ex had gout, and the thing that really helped was simply drinking more water. It tended to flare up when he was dehydrated - for example on a long-haul flight on which he drank lots of red wine. Changing his diet had minimal effect, it was re-learning to drink "the stuff that fish pee in" (and lots of it) that did the trick. If I had gout, I'd try sticking changing from general LCHF to a ketogenic diet, where protein is also minimised, and drinking more water. If that didn't work, I'd probably try an elimination diet to try to pinpoint which foods triggered it, and hope to find a reasonable number that didn't affect either gout or BG.

I don't hope you have gout, but I do hope you don't have something worse!

Kate
 
If it is gout you have my sympathy as it is extremely painful. My husband can't wear his normal shoes when his flares up...he goes to work in a suit and Jesus sandals! His toe gets very red and hot.
 
Wait for the results
I've had gout for 30 years and take allopurinol 300 once a day with no probs it's like all diets moderation is the key and I don't really avoid anything but as they say everybody is different take your time and learn what to eat just as you have done with diabetes. Best of luck
 
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