Here is an attempt to describe the pain for those who don’t know. imagine that someone took a bunch of battery acid, drain cleaner, salt, pepper spray, steel wool. and broken glass, sucked it up into a needle and injected it into your big toe joint and Then:
left the needle in it and Poured burning plastic on it and let a dog chew on it like a chew toy.
……FOR DAYS
At it’s worst it felt WORSE than spraining my knee and breaking a ligament. IT F-ING HURTS LIKE HELL!!!!!
I have Gout. Everything he said is true. I actually applaud his attempt to maintain a good sense of humor. I can’t even begin to explain the pain. the weight of a sheet can feel like a ten ton weight on a gout infected joint. The best I can explain it is shove a nail 1/4 of an inch in your foot,then stand there with it wiggling it around. That is close only with gout it won’t stop. My gout flare ups last about a week on ave. It is total hell and has diminished my life a great deal. gout is hell.
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It’s crazy!
Here is an attempt to describe the pain for those who don’t know. imagine that someone took a bunch of battery acid, drain cleaner, salt, pepper spray, steel wool. and broken glass, sucked it up into a needle and injected it into your big toe joint and Then:
left the needle in it and Poured burning plastic on it and let a dog chew on it like a chew toy.
……FOR DAYS
At it’s worst it felt WORSE than spraining my knee and breaking a ligament. IT F-ING HURTS LIKE HELL!!!!!
I have Gout. Everything he said is true. I actually applaud his attempt to maintain a good sense of humor. I can’t even begin to explain the pain. the weight of a sheet can feel like a ten ton weight on a gout infected joint. The best I can explain it is shove a nail 1/4 of an inch in your foot,then stand there with it wiggling it around. That is close only with gout it won’t stop. My gout flare ups last about a week on ave. It is total hell and has diminished my life a great deal. gout is hell.
This video is not troubling–It’s damn accurate. You have to have gout to understand! Misery loves company.
i just flagged this video as inappropriate. it’s troubling.