Gout causes nightmare, how do you treat this?
By cuttyrish
@cuttyrish (3264)
United States
May 25, 2026 11:05am CST
My partner has gout, and each time he has gout, it has been nightmare for him but for me as well. Since he cannot move because of pain, i sometines need to absent from office, so that i can give him those that he needs.
All the medicines, out there seems not to do anything, they just masked out the pai, but haven't really found the medicine to help him treat this.
Do you have gout? How do you treat this? Or do you know any fast remedies.
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6 responses
@cuttyrish (3264)
• United States
26 May
its so hard to get those here, especially steroid
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@cuttyrish (3264)
• United States
25 May
The trigger per person differs. The medicines out there are just pain relief
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@cuttyrish (3264)
• United States
25 May
it would be nice if there is med that solves this, and not recur
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@JudyEv (385379)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 May
I know gout is very painful. Has he seen a doctor? I thought it was brought about by certain foods but perhaps that's not correct.
@cuttyrish (3264)
• United States
26 May
Yeah, but this times there was no food that trigerred it
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@LindaOHio (223811)
• United States
26 May
I don't know how to treat gout other than avoiding certain foods.
@Ineeddentures (39551)
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6 Jun
I do suffer from gout.
He has to help himself
Gout is basically self inflicted so he has to know what triggers it.
In the meantime, if he gets a flare up he may benefit from drinking a lot of water, elevating his foot, and taking paracetamol and Ibuprofen
He needs to find out what he is eating that causes it, and then cutting it out of his diet
@Ciclis (252)
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25 May
I don't have gout but I do have bad knees, not only arthritis but bone on bone and it's quite painful. Someitmes my ibuprofen and tylenol help, sometimes it doesn't. More often, unfortunately it doesn't.
Just sitting my knees don't hurt, but getting up and trying to move about is very painful, although once I am up and about for a bit the pain seems to subside a bit. One thing I have found that helps me is that before I get up and out of bed or in my chair, I stretch my leg and it seems to help with the stiffness.
I hope your husband can find some relief from his gout.
