well i been waiting all my life for this and it finally happened. my mothers father had severe gout and rumitoid arteritis and i have always been told it could happen to me(its in the blood...oh thanks gramps hahahaha of all the things you coulda left me) . well sun afternoon my hand started swelling for no apparent reason. i had been trimming trees and useing weed whipper so i just thought i had inflamed those tendons that i had repaired some yrs back. but when i woke up mon. morn, i couldnt move my fingers and when my wife touched my hand it hurt so bad i thought i had broken something. i kept saying, if i had jammed it i would have said something like ouch that hurt hahahaha so i knew i hadnt jammed it or broken it but it sure felt like it. so off to the clinic to see the india doctor. FILL OUT THESE FORM....HA you people dont get it, its my right hand and i am right handed. so i get a pager and am told they will page me when its my turn. i take the papers outside, fill out the short form(best i can) lite up a smoke and decide that while i have the time i will call my mom as i havent talked to her in a few days and she likes to stay informed when her kids are hurtin. she sez " you didnt hurt it in anyway?" i said "no mom but it feels broken and it is very swollen" she starts reminding me about her father and his gout problem and that there was a time he was laid up for almost a yr he had it so bad in his feet. i sez"a year?? no way!!! i got daytona this wknd" it was about then they paged me so i go in to see the doc and the nurse that is taking my pressure and temp sez to me "looks like gout to me but lets see what the doc sez" wait in the little room , doc comes in, sez "tell me what you did" "i sez NOTHIN and thats why i am afraid it might be a tendon gave out" he sez "can you move it at all" "i say yea but it hurts like its broken" he sez "i think its gout??" i said CRAP!!!! i am supposed to ride to daytona wed. what do you think?? i tell him about my grandpa and he sez "we got drugs today that he didnt have" "should have you up and runnin by wed but it might be thur before you will be able to ride" so i get the scrips filled and today i can at least move my thumb and 3 fingers so i hope that i improve that much again by tommorow and i will be good to go. but has anybody here ever experienced Gout??? are there any known natural cures,(the pills can cause all kinds of side effects, like stomach bleeding headaches, and i cant seem to get enough sleep) like my father in law sez sour cherries work for his brother??? OK what else, i quit drinkin in 89 and that was the first thing the doc asked "do you drink" NO?? "well dont, its a known caus" but what are some home remidies??? this was just like haveing a broken bone!!!! dam i was so afraid i was not gonna be able to ride for some long time, i wasnt able to go to work yesterday or today and that sucks cuz here i sit at home and cant do nuthin :
(aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh was gonna do a little more cleaning of Milli before heading out, but she will have to wait untill we get back.
anybody else have gout attacks???? NOT
