Is this a proper gout diagnosis?
An emergency room Dr. pronounced me with “Chronic gout”..WITHOUTseeing my feet..(coverred by a sheet)OR any other PART of me..WITHOUTseeing ANY medical history,WITHOUT ANY conversation with me..WHILE Iwas in laying there in agony!!!
I go to the horsepistol..tell the receptionist that I am inHORRIBLE/TERRIBLE AGONY!! in my foot..I think it is a goutattack..she just calls a Dr. and they wisk me away..a while later inwalks the TWIN for the “Man From Glad Garbage Bag” commercial..
He is BRUSQUE/NOT friendly/polite..has a bunch of other stuff inhis hands..and just says..”Yup..CHRONIC GOUT”..WITHOUT so much assaying hello/looking at me..
I LASH out at this MORON!..(ME..at the time great tree barklicker..NO allo. for me!!!)..”HOW DO YOU KNOW??? YOU HAVEN’T EVENLOOKED AT ME?????”
He turns to me..equally as quick/hostile and says..
“ANYONE who comes to a hospital emergency room..in the MIDDLE ofthe night..in the MIDDLE of the winter..in the MIDDLE of a RAGINGsnowstorm..in MINUS 20 degree weather..with one or two buttons on hisshirt done up CROOKED..his pants not done up/holding them up..NOSOCKS?..HOPPING/HOBBLING across the parking lot..after leaving hiscar running..having to stop and switch feet..take off a runningshoe..THEN hopping on the other foot while holding the othershoe..HAS CHRONIC GOUT!!..
Then he was REALLY,REALLY apologetic..and REALLY,REALLYNICE!!!!..admitting/conceding..and LAUGHING!!! LAUGHING???? HUNH???this is funny???????FUNNY????????…that him and a “FEW” others wereLAUGHING as they watched this on the security tape…he says theyREALLY liked the part where I was hopping on the one foot with theshoe..THEN I had to take that shoe off(The attack was “flashing” fromfoot to foot)because of the swelling..)I thought my foot would BURSTin that shoe(My feet used to swell from size 8 1/2 to WAY,WAY MORE!than 14/15..NO shoe/boot would fit)..THEN I was hopping CARRYING theshoe..like a little kid carrying a doll..
EVEN I SORT of laughed at the time..I laff a LOT about it now..myfriends..some in the medical proffession..and other people LOVE IT!!
Columbus Luthe on June 2nd, 2007
GOTDAMMIT I have been in that exact same scenario!!! When it is considered “gout”, you are treated like a stepchild (no offense to stepchildren). Gout is undeniably considered the most painful disease on the planet, but the least likely disease you will get pain meds for! I went to the ER so many times with a knee or an ankle red and swollen to twice it’s normal size, only to waste 8 hrs sitting there until they released me with a script for colchicine and voltaren. Sorry, but I have to say this- COCKSUCKERS! I went in with a stomach-ache that wasn’t even that bad (well, I couldn’t hold down food), I wasn’t in that much pain, and they put me on a DEMEROL DRIP without me even complaining. As it turns out, they removed my gallbladder (and due to an ice storm I was wasted on demerol for about four days). At one point I was so stoned that I thought the room had capsized and I was gonna fall outta my bed! BUT, complain about gout (which is REAL pain), and nobody listens. Doctors really piss me off.
Sabina Shamel on June 2nd, 2007
I have not had a baby but I have had serious gout and there is oneaffliction that is worse than gout and all of you are more that 100times more likely to get it than someonein thenormal populationa and,by the way, allopurinol will keep that monstar away. That one hasvisited me twice in my life and al much as I fear a real gout pain Ifeat this monster more.
Uric acid kidney stones that pass from the kidney are so bad that ifoffered, hemlock would be preferable.
If you have gout, you have a one in 3 chance of also getting kidneystones.
My wife told me about the pain of child birth, which I watched. Womenwho have had both say that a child is less pain.
Columbus Luthe on June 3rd, 2007
Oh my. I am awaiting the kidney stone monster. My wife had to have some removed surgically, and that is EASY compared to passing them. A friend of my father said “It was like pissing sand spurs with barbs”- for those of you who don’t know what sand spurs are, they are about 1/4″ diameter and covered with barbed spikes. Kinda like an old English mace.