Genuine Excess
Genuine | February 18I have recently had a run in with my first bout of arthritis called “Gout”. Yeah, I know it sounds like a descriptive smell like an unwashed crotch rot kind of sexually transmitted disease, but it is actually related to uric acidand your body’s inability to dispose of it. In my education of the treatment and symptoms of gout I was sure of the diagnosis after reading the following from a doctor named Tom Gowan, M.D. in his description of men that contracted gout in the middle ages:
“The typical description of a patient with gout was a wealthy, corpulent aristocrat, particularly one with an enormous appetite for food, drink and women. It was almost always associated with men, and in fact still has a male predominance, and was considered a consequence of overindulgence.”
The treatment is less overindulgence. I have to give up alcohol, eat less red meat, and lose weight. I have decided that the pain is tolerable. I have decided however to give up women which has made my wife happy, and I have decided that being wealthy is not going to be that hard to give up.
Dude, Gout, the only people I know that have gout are 50+ year old men with beer bellies and a bad diet. They find if they stay away from the budweiser and drink old wilwaukie it doesn’t flare up as bad.
Good luck with it I understand it to be quite painful.
My dad has had Gout since he was 43. What is amazing about it though is if he eats cherry anything (and I mean with real cherries not the artificial flavoring) that it will go away. Since this discovery we have kept a supply of dried cherries on hand…they taste a lot like raisins. Good Luck with the Gout.
My brother has gout. And yes, he has been teased unmercifully by my other brother. I am just not around as much.
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