The best control I've establish for that is a glass of unsweetened grapefruit juice everyday. Takes a month or so to have an effect but it is working.
Thanks, you just sent me down the rabbit hole lol.
If I miss just 2 or 3 days of it, my arthritis starts to hurt so much more.
Is it a gout flair up that comes back or arthritis?
He's entertaining which make it easier to watch. This seems to be pretty accurate information and certainly clears up some of the vague information that's out there. One fact that might be of interest is that increased levels of uric acid doesn't mean you'll have gout flair up.
Initially they had decided on gout because of the location and the high uric acid levels in my blood. But i can't have the gout medication because all forms in all brands have dairy in the tablet filler. I also can't have non-steriodal anti inflammatory drugs either.... so I needed to try lowering my uric acid levels another way, hence the grapefruit juice. Fast forward several years and a bad fall in January 2021 leaving me with multiple stress fractures across both lower legs (at the knee joint) and in the left foot and I needed to see an orthopaedic specialist who diagnosed osteoarthritis in that particular joint that causes the pain. But what I do know and found out this January just gone is that if I miss a few days of grapefruit juice, that pain returns big time and will take around a month to settle again. My consultant tells me it is exceptionally unlikely to zero likelihood that I have both gout and OA in the same joint, so the answer is that it is arthritis (gout is a form of arthritis anyway), OA being my official diagnosis in that joint based on the x-ray. I just happen to have high uric acid levels in my blood as well which when I drink grapefruit juice each morning (200ml is the minimum needed from what I've read) is low enough that my doctor (GP) stops commenting on it at each blood test. So it's anyone's guess.
Gout is a rheumatoid arthritis that flairs up between asymptomatic periods and is in mostly men and almost all the time the crystal formations end up in the big toe of either foot. Fascinating, and I suggest watching the video for anyone interested.
Lowering inflammation effects arthritis, making it less severe and from what I can see from the science is it's the ascorbic acid (vit C) that reduces both uric acid and lowers inflammation. Also the absorption pathway of vit C is the same one sugar uses and because of that Vit C is not absorbed by the body efficiently. So grapefruit being fairly low in sugar works better than say orange juice, which they suggest is to be avoided to lower uric acid levels. This is one of the factors of why a low carb diet works well for arthritis because it lowers the intake of sugar and sugar being very antagonistic and increasing CRP which is the marker for chronic levels of inflammation in the body. Cheers.
Gout effects about 1 or 2 in a 1000 and most people consume what is said to be too much red meat with seafood on the rise and sugar consumption off the charts and most men consume beer as opposed to wine. If these were the cause then gout should be higher or at least it should correlate to much higher incidence over time, but it basically hasn't even in the prevalence of much much higher inflammatory diseases like heart disease, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, obesity, high blood pressure, psoriasis, rosacea etc. on the rise with almost 80% of the population with inflammatory issues. Reality is the you can have a gout flair up without having high uric acid levels and a person can actually show low levels of uric acid. After looking into this for the last few days it appears there are other mechanisms involved than what has been diagnosed as remedies and medication is the only line of defense during a flair up. I suspect the science going forward will uncover more information about the body and nutrition in general and with gout I have a feeling that genetics and purine metabolism plays a bigger role than what is though.
Get yourself a bicycle. It does wonders.
The problem is MGs partner. She's walking to keep track of him. Cycling won't work in that instance and I get the feeling that he probably isn't safe to be cycling unless it is on dedicated cycle paths away from traffic which always have the problem of getting there in the first place.
It hits everyone differently, or not at all. We all have that one aunt who smoked 40 ciggies a day, drank like a fish, and lived to be 100, and we all know that guy who ate nothing but nuts and lettuce, and croaked at 45 while on his daily jog.
