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I'll repeat here the advice that has stood me in good stead for all my adult life: 'never consent to being booked in for a physical and mental MOT' cos you'll start thinking of yourself as a sick person and rattle with pills for the rest of your natural. You have not been charged for this...

Concentrated cherry juice will almost certainly help ward off gout over the longer term, mix a teaspoonful into yoghurt in the mornings. In the very short term, without prescription, all I can really suggest is double strength ibuprofen (assuming they don't sell naproxen over the counter 'for...

I'm in Oz at the moment. Felt a few gouty twinges after long flight dehydration. Asked the chemist if I could buy some Naproxen over the counter. Turns out it's branded and marketed for period pains. It's the exact same stuff. And yes it was a teenage girl that served me on the till :blush:

Maybe that, in conjunction with not drinking enough water during the very hot, very humid spell of weather we've been having recently

Dads know best. Try to wear flip-flops or open-toed sandals if you can. Might look a bit odd, but to hell with that. From experience, trying to squeeze your foot into a normal shoe in the throes of a gout attack can be be bloody excruciating. Good luck tomorrow :thumbsup:

I spent just about all of Albion 2021/22 season with that bitch of a pain. Made it torture every time I went to football. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Been free of that shit for a year now hurrah. Would heartily recommend concentrated sour cherry juice. Mix it into your morning yogurt...

Gout is EVIL. Tho, taking the positives, it won't last more than about 12 days. Tho it sometimes takes the piss and then transfers to the opposite limb. Naproxen is your prescripion (or euro-over-counter) friend here. Else 500mg Ibuprofen

Trick is not to take them on an empty stomach. I've always found it good to take them in conjunction with milk or yoghurt as a minimum. Anything to line the wall of the stomach basically while the pill does its thing

A couple of summers back I was 'lucky' enough to score the dream treble: gout in wrist, elbow and shoulder, all at the same time. It was bloody horrible. Couldn't sleep at all, other than in an armchair, Took me half an hour to put a teeshirt on. GP prescribed me a big box of Naproxen, also a...

Cheers. Already doing the H&B cherry juice thing but will experiment with garlic pills also :thumbsup:

Anyone got that really annoying, not to say extremely painful thing, whereby you ride out a gout attack on one foot for the obligatory 5 to 10 days only to have it even more annoyingly transfer to the other foot. As Kevin The Teenager would say, that is SO unfair! :angry:

I used to get it and still do very sporadically. You can expect it to last 5-10 days then disappear as quickly and usually as completely as it came. My top tip is concentrated cherry juice from Holland & Barrett. It's not cheap but for me at least it's highly effective. Mix a tablespoon of it...