I feel like I am at a alcoholics annonymous meeting..


I get gout in my right big toe and my left knee, it took my doctor ages to diagnose it, even up to the point where she wanted to take a sample from my toe but hey, it was too painful and I would not allow it.


I had gout in the toe for 3 months after eating a pizza with tabasco and chillies on it (yummy).


When it is my knee, I have found that I cannot command my leg to lift that knee, even to the point of not being able to move my foot forward to press the clutch peddle in the car etc, I need to kick it forward with my other knee, is this common, also sometimes it feels like I am going to bend it backwards and it realy hurts.


Is there a site that I can show the missus that explains gout and the pain etc, also how when my knee feels like its bending backwards so she understands what the pain is like.


I sometimes tell her its worse than child birth.


I have gone down the votaren path, now I am onto indomethacin, next I don't know, were thinking of trying progout but after reading some of the theorie here might have to try strawberries or hydrocloric acid and baking soda.


Any ideas.