Medications used to treat gout
Common Questions and Answers about Medications used to treat gout
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Medications are often the most effective way to treat acute gout and can prevent recurrent attacks of gout. However, making certain lifestyle changes also are important, such as limiting alcoholic beverages (especially beer), limiting intake of foods high in purines (such as red meat, organ meats, and seafood), and exercising regularly and losing weight.
Is there any gout remedy / medication which would not have this incompatibility for enlarged prostate patients as earlier he used to take Voveran when he used to feel the onset of the gout attack, but now with this side effect, he hesitates to take Voveran which causes the onset of his painful gout attack.
No one likes to take medications but sometimes it is necessary to avoid serious complications. Excessive uric acid can destroy joints.
Mollyrae made a good suggestion, see your PCP. Develop a plan to treat your condition. Avoid foods that are high in purine though I know this can be difficult to do. Best of luck to you. Please let us know how you are doing.
It allows the heart to pump your blood more efficiently. Was it RXed for your foot swelling? The Colchicine is used to treat gout. Two doses would not have been enough to know if it was effective in treating a gout flare. Gout doesn't always act the same in every person...however it'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.
I am not sure what gout medication you took, but the 5 most commonly prescribed gout medications are allopurinol, colchicine, pegloticase, probenecid, and febuxostat. All 5 of these drugs are categorized by the FDA as pregnancy risk category C. This means that there is reason to be concerned about their use during pregnancy, but they have not been shown to be harmful to fetuses. These drugs may be used during pregnancy if the benefit is greater than the risk.
I wanted to also share with you a side effect of Niaspan is gout. If you never had it before, and start to more than likely it's the Niaspan that caused it. My husband was on Niaspan for a a couple of yrs. well, for the last yr. before discontinuing it, he kept getting flare-ups of gout. He started to get it more often than not. Also, the flare-ups were unbearable, to wear he couldn't go into the office because he couldn't put his shoe on.
Spiriva is an anticholenergic used to treat various forms of COPD, but rarely asthma. The primary function of these medications is to reduce mucous in the respiratory system. They do have a mild broncho-dilating affect. I have not used Spiriva so I am unsure of its dosage, but I have taken ipratropium which is in the same class. As a neb solution it lasts 6 hours and as an MDI it last 4 hours. Check your prescription for dosing on this medication.
I don't know what to tell you, but I have to stress if you need to go to the hospital, than go. Most hospitals have a hardship program and if you go as an emergency, they have to treat you. I'm sorry I don't have more advice for you. I think this should be done by a Dr though.
My mom's hands appear to be more affected than her toes as well...so I'm guessing it's not too uncommon.
As for treatment...I would think it would be a little more difficult because you use your hands more...but I would have to double check that with my mom...sorry.
Colchicine might also be of benefit. Finally, there are two new medications for gout--recently approved by the FDA--Uloric and Krystexxa. You might wish to speak to your physician about whether you would be a candidate for either.
Good luck!
That is quite a lot of medication, especially for a woman who is probably in her 70's.
I don't know anywhere near enough about Parkinson's or the meds used to treat it to give you my opinion, let alone an answer.
I suggest three things. As her daughter, you have the right to speak with her doctor about your concerns regarding the meds. Secondly, you could speak with your local pharmacist who is a DOCTOR of PHARMACOLOGY and get his learned opinion on your mother's med load.
The doctor can arrange for you to have a blood test taken to check if you have any inflammatory problems and to see if you do have gout. 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.
Yes its understood then. So if you take it as prescribed for pain you are not abusing it then. But if people read that you believed it could work in that fashion it might encourage some of those people. People post specific information as regards their own recovery (that in no way supercedes a psychiatrist's understanding of them) but a "debate" is not a good idea.
I have am bipolar also,
I have been on many prescription medications and find they are only temporary, and only lead to more prescription meds.
I think depression is a sign saying we need to change something in our life, for me it was my health, so I take tons of different vitamins for mood stabilization and depression, and a long hard workout for sleep(and they work).
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