Advice? support?
I wonder if anyone out there can help me. My family doctor suspects I’ve gotgout, but says I need to get tests to be sure. The confusing thing is - I’m awoman! Feels weird to get this (provisional) diagnosis…I thought this was onefor the boys. So here’s what it feels like: swollen, red, so stretched theskin isitchy and VERY sore, although I’m still able to walk. Oh - and by ‘it’, I meanmy big toe. So what do the people who know say - is this gout?
Arden Halladay on September 25th, 2007
This sounds like gout to me, but I am no doctor..When I was firstdiagnosed (I was 22), the doctor said he had never seen an incidencein a young person before. My new doctor (who also does research)tells me the incidence of gout attacks has been increasing and hasnot been conforming to to the traditional profile of people it has inthe past. I would get the further tests done.