Have you ever suffered from gout pain?

If you have then you’ll be only too aware of the utter misery that this common condition can cause. You’re going to have to deal with lost time from work, with loss of sleep, loss of lifestyle and more than that - with the very real side effects of some heavy duty medications. Most people who suffer from gout end up taking prescription medications - often non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs (NSAID’s) - and these frequently result in problems with the stomach, the gut, the kidneys or the blood pressure levels.

Most gout pain treatment options are still very focussed on conventional medicine, but in the last few years there’s been a swing back towards more traditional ways of dealing with things. Researchers have looked more closely at how a dietary change can help, at lifestyle issues and at natural remedies like cherry juice extract - all of which seem to be effective in easing the discomfort.

Gout most often affects the joint at the base of the big toe but other parts of the body suffer too. It can flare up in the ankle, in the knee, the shoulder or the wrist. For some unlucky people it can even trigger kidney stone problems which lead to kidney pain and bleeding in the urine. Where ever it affects in the body it is always extremely painful !

The pain of a gout flare up comes about because of a salt in the bodies blood stream called urate or uric acid. Uric acid is always present but it stays completely dissolved in the blood plasma - just as sugar stays dissolved in warm coffee or tea. But of course, if you let your coffee get cold the sugar no longer stays dissolved but appears at the bottom of the mug like little sharp edged crystals. And, yes, you’ve guessed it, that’s precisely what uric acid does at the start of a bout of gout pain.

These crystals in the joints are incredibly irritating and start up a huge flare up of inflammation. It’s like walking with broken glass inside your shoe say many sufferers.

We don’t really fully know what triggers the uric acid crystals to emerge from solution in the blood but it’s probably partly a change in blood pH and partly a change in blood temperature.

Treatment of gout is focussed either on reducing the amount of urate in the blood to begin with - or on reducing the inflammation caused when the condition starts to flare up. In conventional medicine this is done by taking medication on a lifelong daily basis to prevent gout or when required to deal with acute attacks. More natural approaches look at diet changes to prevent attacks or at using natural inflammation reducing options like cherry juice or cherry extract. Probably a combination of modern medicine and nature works best for most people.

I guess in summary it’s safe to say that there is no one miracle cure out there - but if you take your time and explore the options open to you then you should find a route to gout pain relief that works for you and your individual circumstances.

 

 

end up taking prescription medications - often non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs (NSAID’s) - and these frequently result in problems with the stomach, the gut, the kidneys or the blood pressure levels.

Most gout pain treatment options are still very focussed on conventional medicine, but in the last few years there’s been a swing back towards more traditional ways of dealing with things. Researchers have looked more closely at how a dietary change can help, at lifestyle issues and at natural remedies like cherry juice extract - all of which seem to be effective in easing the discomfort.

Gout most often affects the joint at the base of the big toe but other parts of the body suffer too. It can flare up in the ankle, in the knee, the shoulder or the wrist. For some unlucky people it can even trigger kidney stone problems which lead to kidney pain and bleeding in the urine. Where ever it affects in the body it is always extremely painful !

The pain of a gout flare up comes about because of a salt in the bodies blood stream called urate or uric acid. Uric acid is always present but it stays completely dissolved in the blood plasma - just as sugar stays dissolved in warm coffee or tea. But of course, if you let your coffee get cold the sugar no longer stays dissolved but appears at the bottom of the mug like little sharp edged crystals. And, yes, you’ve guessed it, that’s precisely what uric acid does at the start of a bout of gout pain.

These crystals in the joints are incredibly irritating and start up a huge flare up of inflammation. It’s like walking with broken glass inside your shoe say many sufferers.

We don’t really fully know what triggers the uric acid crystals to emerge from solution in the blood but it’s probably partly a change in blood pH and partly a change in blood temperature.

Treatment of gout is focussed either on reducing the amount of urate in the blood to begin with - or on reducing the inflammation caused when the condition starts to flare up. In conventional medicine this is done by taking medication on a lifelong daily basis to prevent gout or when required to deal with acute attacks. More natural approaches look at diet changes to prevent attacks or at using natural inflammation reducing options like cherry juice or cherry extract. Probably a combination of modern medicine and nature works best for most people.

I guess in summary it’s safe to say that there is no one miracle cure out there - but if you take your time and explore the options open to you then you should find a route to gout pain relief that works for you and your individual circumstances.

 

 

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