Author and blogger discusses his first gout attack and how drinking whiskey caused his first bout with gout at the age of 26. It affected him on the big toe as well as the knee. It crippled him for couple of weeks. Learn his story.

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So, I remember my first bout of gout at the age of 26 years old. I was out at a pool hall and I was drinking probably from 9:00 PM to about 3:00 AM. I was drinking Jack Daniels and Cokes. Must have had maybe, six, seven, eight of them.

I remember going back home, tried to go to sleep, falling asleep, and then waking up with terrible pain in my foot and my big toe. I couldn't even apply a sheet on it. I remember going to my doctor the very next day, where he diagnosed me with gout. Never heard that word before, it was the first time I ever heard the word gout.

I was a bit shocked. I thought I had a sprained foot, so I asked him, Doctor, are you sure my foot is not sprained, I don't have to take an x-ray? And he was convinced it was gout. So, I went for the blood test, did the blood test, and my uric acid was sky high. Probably in the eights or nines. I remember it hit my knee as well.

So, I was basically crippled for about a week or so. I had to use anti inflammatories. I remember using NSAIDs on my knee. Got rid of some of that uric acid from the knee, and then took Colchicine as well to fight the inflammation.

It took about a week or so, I remember having to go to work by crutches, or with at least one crutch and limping from my car to the office. Everybody was asking what happened. And basically, was a trooper I still fought through it, because back then I was working as a sales rep for a very big agency. So I basically didn't want to stay at home, I wanted to be a work and not have that feeling of not being part of society. So yeah, I remember my first bout with gout and alcohol.

Alcohol has always gotten me in trouble in the past, not only for the first time but other times afterwards where I was experimenting. It was always alcohol that got me. So if you have gout, make sure you stop the alcohol, or limit it as much as you can. Have a drink here and there, preferably red wine. I'll have some red wine with a meal, but other than that I won't go more than two drinks. And very rare do I drink nowadays, very rare.

So, basically has to be a social occasion, I have to be amongst friends or family, maybe Christmas, New Years, that type of thing. Or a birthday party. I'll have a glass of wine, sometimes I'll have a bit of whiskey on the rocks, just to remember that taste, because I love whiskey. Other than that, beers I don't drink. I've dropped the beers. That got in me trouble one Super bowl. I drank five, six beers, and there you go, that next day I had a bout of gout. So alcohol will always get you in trouble. Tread carefully. And if you do want to drink, limit it to one or two drinks and don't make it daily, don't make it weekly, make it once in awhile. All right? That's the best advice I can give you. See you in the next one.

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