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My big toe really hurts i think it's gout

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PinkFloydTheWall · 36-40, M
I have gout too, mostly in my feet. For years, doctors chalked it up to "bad fitting shoes" and "arthritis". For about two years, I was dating a girl that would cook these crazy double patty (each patty was an inch thick) cheeseburgers and gradually I was putting on weight. I had my first flare up in summer of 2012, I was on crutches. It got so bad in 2019 that a foot doc figured it out. I'm on a single tablet daily of allopurinol (300 mg) and when I have a flare up (ultra rare now, even when I do they're mild) I take indomethacin and knocks it down in less than 24 hours. This all happens in the kidneys, have to flush it out with water. Tart cherry pills help too. Purines from meat, purines to uric acid, when you sleep heart beat carries uric acid to extremities that form crystals in joints, body sees those crystals as foreign matter and cause fever in the joint and attack it causing gouty arthritis. Feels like someone drives a railroad spike in the joint and can't use it.