| Are you suffering from terrible joint pain? | | | | If the answer is no, you possibly have gout. |
| Would you like to know for certain whether or not | | | | 3. Your pain is getting worse. As mentioned in the |
| you are having a gout attack? | | | | last point, if your pain has not subsided over a few |
| If you are suffering from these 5 gout symptoms, | | | | days, but is actually getting worse with increased |
| chances are you are suffering from this painful | | | | swelling and redness, you could possibly have gout. |
| disease. | | | | When you suffer an injury the swelling will usually |
| 1. Your pain began in the middle of the night. This | | | | subside after a few days whereas gouty arthritis will |
| arthritic problem often begins at night. When you are | | | | continue to increase in intensity. |
| sleeping the synovial fluid responsible for cleaning your | | | | 4. Your pain has spread to other joints. Sometimes |
| joints doesn't flow enough to properly clear out the | | | | gout will jump from one joint to another. You can |
| excess debris. This allows uric acid crystals to | | | | have pain in your foot today and have it spread to |
| accumulate causing swelling leading to terrible pain. So | | | | your knees, elbow, wrists, and fingers. Sometimes it |
| ask yourself, did this pain come on suddenly in the | | | | can feel like you have tendonitis, but in reality, it is |
| middle of the night. If you were not suffering when | | | | gout. |
| you went to sleep, but woke up in pain, chances are | | | | 5. Even the slightest pressure causes intense pain. For |
| you have gout. | | | | regular patients with this disease, it has been noted |
| 2. You don't remember injuring your affected joint. | | | | that even the slightest pressure from even a bed |
| One of the problems with a new onset of this | | | | sheet can cause immense pain. |
| condition is thinking you have a sprained foot or ankle | | | | If you have these symptoms, what can you do? |
| versus having gout. The most common place for pain | | | | Get a blood test to determine if your symptoms |
| is in the big toe. However, this is not always the | | | | point to having gouty arthritis. Other arthritic diseases |
| case. Often attacks occur in the ankle and many | | | | such as rheumatoid arthritis or pseudo gout can have |
| have felt they sprained their ankle. After a couple | | | | similar symptoms. Blood tests can determine your |
| weeks of getting worse and not better many realize | | | | base uric acid levels and enable a physician to |
| they don't remember injuring their ankle. So ask | | | | properly diagnose you. Regardless of which disease |
| yourself if you remember injuring your ankle or foot. | | | | you have, though, the treatments are often similar. |