Casey
i stole these answers from these websites. maybe they can help you out though!
reasons:
Hyperuricemia (high uric acid levels) is the primary risk factor for gout. Staying with a treatment plan may help keep your gout under control. The higher the level of uric acid in your blood, the more likely you are to have a painful flare.
Maintain a healthy and well-balanced diet. Avoid alcohol, especially beer. Try to avoid foods that are high in purines, like certain types of meat, seafood, and even vegetables. Find out which specific foods are high in purines.
Exercise regularly and maintain a healthy body weight. Lose weight if you are overweight, but do not go on quick-loss diets because they can actually increase uric acid levels in the blood.
Take the medicines your health care provider has prescribed. Carefully follow instructions about how much medicine to take and when to take it.
Tell your health care provider about any other medicines and vitamins you take, including natural or herbal supplements. He or she will know if any of them could be increasing your risk of gout attacks.
Keep all your follow-up appointments with your health care provider and ask about monitoring your progress through measuring your levels of uric acid.
Talk with your health care provider about other ways to help manage gout.
What Causes Attacks?
Although a gout flare may occur for no apparent reason, there are a few known causes, or triggers. These include:
Stress or stressful events
Joint injury
Drinking too much alcohol
Eating too much of certain foods
Infection or another illness
Surgery
Crash diets
Rapid lowering of uric acid levels with uric acid–lowering medicines
Certain medicines known to raise serum uric acid levels
Some cancer treatments
JimmyLee
Hyperglycemia, gout, urethritis, and gouty arthritis are some of the names it goes by. Gout can be activated by numerous factors, but there is always one primary cause that triggers it.
The drug you were taking (indomethacin is the generic for Indocin and Indocin-SR) is a very powerful non steroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAID) and has some serious side effects - abdominal or stomach cramps, pain, or discomfort, diarrhea, dizziness, headaches, heartburn, indigestion, nausea, or vomiting.
Indomethacine can mess up your liver (I used to take it also) and should be immediately stopped if you have any of the following symptoms: bloody or black, tarry stools, brown urine, vomiting of blood or material that looks like coffee grounds, yada, yada... (the list goes on and it's kinda scary). This medication only treats the symptoms of gout, not the underlying cause. That is why your gout attacks will most likely keep coming back - unless you change a few simple things that you put in your body.
You said that you stopped drinking. That's good because booze causes elevated levels of uric acid (uric acid and the incomplete breakdown of it in the body causes uric acid crystals to form in your joints - most commonly in the joints of the big toe. This is gout). But you don't have to be a heavy drinker to get gout.
Lots of very common everyday foods can cause your gout to flare up. The reason is because they contain high levels of something called purines. Purines can cause high levels of uric acid also. Here is just a short list of foods with high purine content:
Beef liver
Chicken liver
Baker's yeast
Mushrooms
Sardines
Shrimp
Bacon
Turkey
Asparagus
Spinach
I remember when I used to get my gout attacks, they would always come after I ate seafood - sardines and shrimp (love em) in particular. So now I just watch my intake of certain foods and have not had any problems in the past year.
Here are some other things that can trigger a gout attack that most people don't know about: aspirin, a drop in barometric pressure, stress, use of antibiotics, deficiency of vitamins B5, A and E, diuretics, surgery, fasting, dehydration...
Kinda weird huh? I used to pop aspirin like they were candy, guess what - I was getting gout every month.
How 'bout some home remedies for gout:
Eat foods high in potassium
Lots of fruits and veggies (except the ones high in purines)
Lemon juice
Cherries
Take 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda with meals (has to do with the ph of your body)
High fiber foods
Fish oil (most fish has high purines - but fish oil doesn't)
Celery seeds (dosage is 500 mg - not for pregnant ladies)
There is more but I'm running out of time. Gotta go pick up the kids. BTW, I saw your question listed in Google so I decided to come answer it. Hope I have been of some assistance to you.
If you want a comprehensive guide for Gout, treatment of gout, causes, and natural remedies then go get this good ebook - it has helped me tremendously:
http://cli.gs/get-out-gout
JeffKan1
Fellow gout sufferer here. There's a ton of people that get gout and just are not sure what to do. So here's my information that I've learned in 11 years of fighting gout, and I seem to be getting it under control.
Best website I've found so far: www.best-gout-remedies.com.
When a person gets gout, you need to help your body do two things: not produce extra uric acid, and do an excellent job of getting rid of uric acid.
For gout attacks, indomethacine and/ or colchicine. You'll need scripts from your dr. for these.
For the rest of your life, do these things: drink lots of water, 1 oz for every 2 lbs of body weight, each day. Once or twice a day, sip on 8 oz of water mixed with 1/2 tsp of baking soda. Helps the body be more alkaline (opposite of acidic) and get rid of uric acid.
Take allopurinol every day. Very inexpensive and no side effects, you'll need a script for this. Helps the body get rid of uric acid.
Take celery seed pills. These may help the liver not to create so much uric acid. For diet, stay away from things that dehydrate the body, like beer and coffee. Don't eat organ meats, high fructose corn syrup. Avoid beer; red wine occasionally is ok. Eat lots of fruits and veggies, cottage cheese, sour cream, plain yogurt in smoothies mixed with orange juice and fruit. Drink fruit juices that are 100% juice, V8 VFusion is my favorite, it comes in many flavors.
Look into probiotics. A person really should take these after any antibiotics from a doctor. The probiotics help the immune system in the intestines.
Educate yourself on foods that are high in purines, avoid these foods as the body turns purines into uric acid.
Good luck to you!
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