A bit of my past, back in about 2003 - before I had eliminated sugar from my diet - I went to an all day event, got dehydrated and had a gout attack.

I mistook it for a foot injury from jumping down some stairs

But it happened again and nothing I had done could be blamed, so I ended up on allopurinol

Time passed, allopurinol worked. Then about COVID lockdown time I fell off keto and went back to eating junk, then in December 2022, just before Christmas I read The Fat Of The Land and went carnivore, calling it zero carb

So everything I read said there’s no gout without sugar, so I stopped using allopurinol

Then in April this year I got foot pain. Not quite the classic big toe ball of the foot swelling but the next three toes’ joint

So I blamed gout despite having no sugar for years

I got prescribed an anti inflammatory and it quickly cleared the problem

Then it happened again and I noticed the pattern, it was particular shoes. I cut my toe nails shorter and now those shoes don’t compress my toes and cause toe pain

So I’m pretty sure again that gout needs sugar

Reversal being:

  • I thought I had an injury but it was a gout attack when I ate junk
  • I thought I had a gout attack but it was an injury while I was eating just meat
  • psudOPMEnglish
    2·
    8 days ago

    0.45mmol/L, compared to 0.36mmol/L while on allopurinol

    Reference range is 0.20 to 0.42, I don’t have the numbers from when I was having attacks.

    The recent pain was because my toenails were long enough that they were pressed hard against the toe of my shoe (my right foot has about half a centimetre free space ahead of it with close trimmed nails). It wasn’t gout at all.

    • jet@hackertalks.comMEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      When you had your gout attacks it was only in the toe?

      Thanks for sharing! its fascinating

      • psudOPMEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        Only on the big toe joint, which is pretty typical