Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you Phil, this is just I'm doing ... Best! Lluis El 26/10/2009, a las 0:34, Philip Leeson escribi?: > Actually, in the knee, Pseudogout is more likely than gout. > Feels the same, but different crystals: Gout is uric acid, > pseudogout is calcium pyrophosphate (also known as CPPDD) > A needle in the knee and sending the fluid for crystal analysis is > the way to get a diagnosis. > The other diagnoses mentioned are evident on physical exam. > The initial treatment of both is rest and usually anti-inflammatory > medicines .... > > Phil > > On Oct 25, 2009, at 5:54 PM, Steve Barbour wrote: > >> >> On Oct 25, 2009, at 3:42 PM, lrzeitlin at aol.com wrote: >> >>> 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. >> >> Against the possible diagnosis of gout, stands the likelihood that >> Lluis never touches these things.... >> >> Also I recall that gout usually starts in and involves the small >> joints esp the feet... >> >> Seems more likely that Lluis was involved in some sort of physical >> interaction with the senorita, and one of the seven veils, >> >> >> Steve >> >> >> >> >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information