1st April 2025

Another update with not much to say. My Gout is still hanging around. It felt like it was going weeks ago, but it flares up again and again. Old injuries like a broken wrist that happened 40 odd years ago feel stiff and sore, and some mornings I'm just too stiff and sore to do anything. It's taking me two three hours to get my body moving properly. It is bloody depressing, but all I can do is keep on trying to get back to normal. Anti inflammatories help, but I don't like taking drugs so it's only on really bad days I succumb.
I'm still swimming and going to the gym, but on some days I'm just too stiff and sore, and that's depressing. I'm hoping that things wil ease and I'll feel back to normal, but when?
Anyway, it has been dominating things for me, but obviously other things are going on. On the one hand things at home are going well. Sex life is good. The only issue with my dressing is I'm running out of wardrobe space....oh, and my wife keeps borrowing my dresses, skirts and tights. And yet I'm still feeling something is missing in my life. Maybe it's an age thing, thinking that perhaps I didn’t make the most of my life, that I settled for the easy options far too often. The realisation of my own mortality is becoming far too obvious.
Well, looking at what I've written I hope it's not as depressing for thers as it is for me. I must try and be more optimistic in any further posts. So this morning I'm off to the gym even though I'm still a bit stiff and sore. The sun is shining so I'm sure it will be a good day.

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Heartlander · 80-89, M

OUCH!!!

Isn't there a diet or food pick list that will supposedly make people less likely to experience episodes of gout?

22Michelle · 61-69, T

@Heartlander Yes, and Iam doing pretty well on the dietary picks, and my episodes have been few and far between. However, when it happens it bloody hurts, and getting out of bed in the morning can be an extremely difficult operation, though it's not every morning.
Anyway I shall take note of the advice given as it is a real bugger when the Gout kicks in.

Heartlander · 80-89, M

@22Michelle I'm pretty lucky in that it only affects one particular foot joint and it comes on slowly, over a few days, so good warning before it becomes problematic.

22Michelle · 61-69, T

@Heartlander First few times it flared up it was just the foot, but the last time it affected my knee (athritic from an operation when I was 19). This time it's the knee, wrist (broken playing American football 40 years ago), fingers (broken in an offshore accident 30+ years ago) and just general stiffness. And also it has flared up almost without warning. This time it also seemed to subside only to flare up again. Hopefully it will go soon.
Thing about Gout is that even though it's far more common than people think many either have no idea what it is, or think it's only those eating lots of rich food and drinking Port. They also have no idea about how painful it can be.