I am very sorry you are in pain. You may like to take a look at "Emergency Gout Treatments" section in http://www.ICuredMyGout.org on how to deal with gout attacks. I have not read that surgery is used to relieve gout pain.

It is very unusual for women in child-bearing age to have gout. However, in rare case, gout can attack mothers about 12 weeks after the deliveries. If you are not getting better soon, I suggest that you see a rheumatologist.

Good luck.

I dont have it but my father does in it hands and feet. he is always saying how in pain he is he cant walk or use his hands. he is on medication but it dosent help and they tell him to take ibprofin for the pain. i asked him if he had ever tried a natural remedy and he said he didnt know of any but thank you for the site i will definately check it out and send it to him

BabyGirlsMami; Your father needs to be on medication for his gout as well as anti-inflammitories (ibuprophen). Such meds as allopurinol. Gout is often related to an inherited abnormality in the body to process uric acid. Uric acid levels can become elevated by eating a lot of purine-rich foods such as meats, by the overproduction of uric acid by the body, or if the kidneys do not eliminate excess uric acid. Tell him to stay away from processed meat like deli meats that you by in the store. These meats contain a lot of Purine. Other foods that are high in Purine are veal,
bacon, liver, salmon and turkey. And no there is not any surgical help available, sorry

I am sorry to hear that your Father has this type of pain. I do understand what he is going thru. I recommend the highest dose of Ibuprofin (800 milligrams 4 times a day). The other thing he will want to do is to drink a lot of water. Also he may want to look at http://icuredmygout.org as it has helped me.

I was diagnosed with gout 10 years ago and I am only 37. The pain can get very horrible and I feel for those who suffer. The one thing that I can tell you is that Baking Soda really really works. It does not taste good but to get rid of the pain I deal with it. In fact since I have started to take the Baking Soda on a regular basis the Uric Acid crystal deposits (aka tofi) have started to disappear on some joints and are completely gone in others. I wish I knew about Baking Soda before I had to have my big left toe joint rebuilt by a surgeon.

I know that Baking Soda is not a idea that most doctors or healthcare people look at but I can recommend it as now I can bend joints that could not bend when I was not taking Baking Soda. Also I can eat and drink things that I was not able to when doing the normal mainstream stuff.

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RE: " ... Tell him to stay away from processed meat like deli meats that you by in the store. These meats contain a lot of purine. Other foods that are high in purine are veal, bacon, liver, salmon and turkey."
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High level of uric acid in the blood (hyperuricemia) is neither the necessary nor the sufficient condition for triggering gout. Recent medical and nutritional literature do not routinely recommend low purine diet for the gout patients. (Purines turn into uric acid in the liver.) For example, "... A rigid purine restricted diet is of dubious therapeutic value and can rarely be sustained for long ...", so says a gout expert, professor a. G. Fam in "gout, diet, and the insulin resistance syndrome".

Interestingly, numerous food and drink that are known to trigger gout have low purine content, e.g., peanut, cranberry, orange, tomato, wine, liquor, ..., even egg (as mentioned by mrfirkin and WanttoKnow under the thread "Eggs & Gout" in this message board).

Professor Fam's article can be found by:
1) Click on : http://www.Jrheum.Com/subscribers/02/07/13 50.Html -- this will take you to a website, with an error message.
2) In the address box of the link, change the upper case "H" in ".Html" to lower case, and hit return key.
3) This will take you to Professor Fam's article.