Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Lluis, If you are unfortunate enough to have gout rather than a simple sprain, I literally feel your pain. A few years back I went to my doctor because I was afraid that I had broken my toe. "No," he reassured me. "You have joined the British aristocracy. You have gout." "But don't worry," he told me, "after a few weeks of agonizing pain, it will go away. At least until the next time." And, he was right. I don't mean to practice medicine without a license but there is a therapy that works fairly well for me. I take a .6 milligram colchicine tablet every morning as a preventive. If I start having gout symptoms, I up the dosage until I get diarrhea. That usually aborts the episode. No one really knows how colchicine works but it has been used for gout for several hundred years. The alternative is to give up meat, chocolate, and red wine. A fate almost worse than the gout pain itself. But however you treat your knee pain, take good care of yourself. You give the soul to the LUG. Larry Z