Gout, A Pain in the Foot

Friday, June 20th, 2008 | Life

You know how a doctor looks at some test results at one point and says “wow, you are really healthy… except you do have really high uric acid levels, you should really work on changing your diet to change that so that you don’t end up with Gout”.

Well you ignore him because doctors are stupid and who the fuck are they to tell you what you can and cannot eat!?

That was my experience. Basically I have a shitty metabolism and my body is too acidic, so uric acid builds up in the joints. Most often the big toe joint. Odd, I know.

But DAMN does it suck. I mean I haven’t been able to walk properly for days. I had to pay a doctor $110 for the visit just to get him to prescribe me some drugs, which to my dismay he only gave me percoset and shit to deal with the pain, and nothing to actually lower uric acid levels.

Lucky for me I know how to browse the internet and have been trying to reduce my foods that cause excess uric acid and have been drinking cherry juice etc… It still hasn’t gone away, but it’s better than it was the other day.

I mean having shit like this takes away all motivation. Oh I can’t move my food… or even if I don’t move it the damn things still hurts and you can’t sleep because of the constant stabbing pain.

So what am I supposed to do? Eat less red meat, stop eating shell fish, cut out yeast based products and things with high protein and purine. Stop drinking alcohol etc…

Yeah, it sounds like some bullshit to me 2. Grr…

               

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