Lyrica and gout
Common Questions and Answers about Lyrica and gout
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It is important to find out whether you have gout or not, as you will need to be careful with what you eat and drink and depending on the level of inflammation with regard to the gout, the doctor may consider prescribing medication to control the gout.
If there is a bursa problem that is not relieved by your pain relief medications, the doctor can administer a steroid injection into the bursa that is causing the problem.
The pain of occipital neuralgia begins in the neck and spreads upwards to scalp, forehead, and behind the eyes. The pain is due to irritation or injury of nerves, pinching of nerves by tight neck muscles, compression of nerves as it leaves the spine secondary to osteoarthritis or tumors in the neck. Local inflammation or infection, gout, diabetes etc.
True Gout affects the joints of our body and occurs when uric acid crystals are deposited in and around the joints. It's like throwing sand and tiny bits of gravel in a clean and well lubricated joint. This causes pain, inflammation, often redness and always swelling in specific joints. It more commonly effects the lower joints of our body especially the big toe. But the ankle, knee or other joints can be effected.
5 three times a day, and colchicine at 0.6 once a day and allopurinol 400mgs once a day for Gout. I am on lyrica 75mgs twice a day for diabetic peripheral neuropathy. I was on glybride 2.5 for each morning and evening meal, but have been advised to stop as my blood results have come back excellent with diet and exercise. I did stop but I can not continue the exercise and my blood pressure and weight have gone up.
Greetings from the arthritis forum! We would be glad to give you full details about Gout!
Gout is a disease hallmarked by elevated levels of uric acid in your blood. In this condition, crystals of monosodium urate (MSU) or uric acid are deposited on the articular cartilage of joints, tendons, and surrounding tissues.
Gout is characterized by excruciating, sudden, unexpected, burning pain, as well as swelling, redness, warmth, and stiffness in the affected joint.
I recently finished 12 weeks of Sovaldi and Olysio where I cleared and relapsed after I finished.I take allopurinol every day for my gout and did so during treatment.It has no negative effect on you during treatment.Gout can lead to serious problems if not treated.You really should get some blood work to see your uric acid levels.A rheumatologist is the one who treats people for gout but Im sure your GP or hepatologist will write up the bloodwork for you.
There are articles which link uric acid levels (high uric acid is associated with Gout) with HCV and interferon but I don't think that gout is a side effect of HCV or treatment. If that were the case I think I would have seen a lot more posts on the subject - I can't remember one). I treated 3 times and my last ended in June 2004. I never had gout until May 2009. Too often we attribute every malady we have to HCV or treatment but it's more often that not wrong.
s easy to rule this in or out based on Uric Acid levels in your blood. I assume your PCP has done this and that is his rationale behind dismissing Gout.
What I do think is that you need to find out the reason your foot is swelling. The swelling alone can damage tissues and structures if left untreated...which you certainly don't want to do, especially at 25.
Dark urine could be from nothing more then not drinking enough fluids.
I am suffering from acute gout right now and have found many connections with hypothyroid and gout and a fair amount on its (hypo) connection to tooth decay and gum disease!
Does anybody have any knowledge of these relationships?
How about the tale of Lugol's Iodine on the bottom of your feet at night?
Do you have to be on meds to manage hypothyroid or is iodine replacement enough?
I do not know about verpmil but I know a lot about Lyrica and hate it. I gained weight-- 12lbs in a month and I felt like a zombie. I know for some people it can cause depression and even suicidal thoughts.
I am curious did anyone ever have you keep food diary? I have many foods that I cannot eat such as gluten (wheat, barley, rye), dairy, any artificial sweeteners, msg (now called umami), high fructose corn syrup (now called corn sugar), certain nuts, and nitrates/nitrites (processed meats).
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I have exactly this problem. A very fit and healthy 51 year old right hand that only a week ago had a comment about my firm handshake. Now I can't shake hands, the knuckle at the top of my middle finger is sore and swollen making it difficult to both lay my hand flat or make a fist. There was no impact injury that I can think of and xrays showed nothing. I've never had gout and the only other joint issue I have is a bad knee. Any clues?
Hi ggreg and thank you for the link. I looked it up and yes, it does sound like Gout with the exception of the inflammation.
I am currently undergoing tests, to do with my kidneys, as they think there may be some damage from the Diomax I was taking for two years for IIH.
It does all seems to link up together,unfortunately.
Once again, thanks for taking the time out to answer, Cath278.
mandukasan(not for pregnant women) - kneel down(with feet pointing inwards,and sit on the ankles/heels, Vajrasan position), breathe in and breathe out completely and hold your breath, pull the stomach in, press both your hands on stomach, bend forward as much as possible keeping the head straight, hold for 5 to 15 seconds and come back up while breathing in.Do this asan 3 times daily before meals, to stimulate the kidney and pancreas.
I have been on Allopurinol
Gout symptoms are usually a sore big toe joint (or knee occasionally) which gets red suddenly overnight without warning and becomes excruciatingly painful. So painful that even the weight of a bedsheet is agony! You can't put a sock on, let alone a shoe. Treatment can be prescribed medication such as colchicine but be warned; the side affects can be horrific! The only treatment that works for me when i get it occasionally is an into inflammatory injection right into the joint.
I having been having problems with pain in my foot, its really bad and when it happens I can't walk. it really seems like gout but I am a vegetarian, I have been avoiding legumes and other foods known to cause gout, I do not drink beer, could there be other causes or could it be a different condition? It has been happening quite often these past few months...
I was recently diagnosed with gout and although I do have pain in my big toe (mainly left, but also some in right), I'm having more trouble with my fingers - they are where the pain is worst and where I've got some tophi. How common/uncommon is it to have gout more in the fingers than the toe? I know it can affect other joints other than teh big toe, but just not sure how common it is and if it makes it any more difficutl to treat?
My friend has had gout for five or six years with only minor 'episodes'. Recently he had a ruptured peroneal tendon and had surgery to repair that. When the surgeon did the surgery he said that it looked like 'cottage cheese' and that the gout had most likely weakened the tendon and caused the rupture.
Has anyone had experience with this? Any ideas on how to help control the gout?
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