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Beating Gout: A Sufferer's Guide to Living Pain Free
Beating Gout is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book designed for the gout sufferer. Recent research has shown that up to 78% of doctors do not treat gout properly. Historically, physicians have seen gout as a benign disease, but new research has shown that gout and its underlying cause, hyperuricemia, may cause heart disease, high blood pressure, kidney disease, stroke and other deadly diseases. Beating Gout discusses all of these conditions and what you can do to stop gout attacks forever.Beating Gout sets the record straight on the best and most effective ways to treat gout attacks and manage gout s underlying condition, hyperuricemia. This book covers all aspects of the disease from its progression, diagnosis, treatment, to the latest research on diet and lifestyle choices that affect gout. Over three hundred research articles and texts were reviewed for this book. No other source has more practical, scientifically backed information that gout sufferers can start using immediately to reduce or stop attacks while living a healthier and pain free life.What you will Learn the latest gout management techniques that can stop gout attacks forever - Learn how to stop a gout attack in its tracks - Learn the truth about how diet and lifestyle choices effect gout - Completely based on the latest scientific research, not anecdotes or "secret cures" - Clear and easy to understand - Focuses on practical advice that you can use immediately to improve your gout and your healthReview"Beating Gout" provides an insider's view to gout, which is a common and painful disease. Victor Konshin provides an excellent and clinically useful handbook on how to recognize and manage this condition that should be useful for both the patient and physician." --Richard J, Johnson, M.D., FACP - Board member of the Gout & Uric Acid Education Society Review"Fifty years ago, early in the modern era of Rheumatology diagnosing, treating and managing gouty arthritis was the one form that was the most interesting and exciting. Rheumatology knew the cause, could accurately diagnose gout and had definitive drugs to manage and treat it. Since then it has been lacking new ideas, thoughts and drugs, and good management has waned. Beating Gout sets the record straight on the best way to diagnose, treat and manage gout." - Ralph Argen, MD, FACP, FACRReview"Gout is largely mismanaged by physicians. Current guidelines have provided a gold standard to improve the quality of gout care. Beating Gout will help the suffers to understand the disease and to be involved in their treatment." - Weiya Zhang, MD, European League Against Rheumatism
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First published March 26, 2009
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May 24, 2017
Gout's a bitch. My diagnosis came about twenty years ago.
Gouty arthritis appears intermittently, during episodes known as flare-ups. Over the years, I learned to manage and minimize it, although a six-week bout just ended, which led me to this book.
Telling other people about gout, I describe it as a million little needles on fire all pointing in different directions. White cells try to ingest the urate crystals, which are about the size of a blood cell. But the crystal kills the cell, which causes the inflammation.
This book relies on secondary research conducted by the author after his own gout diagnosis a few years before publication. His web links went dormant since then. The subtitle bothers me. Although gout delivers great pain, I do not think of myself as a sufferer. I live with gout. It's up to me to manage it. Over time, the flare-ups become less frequent but more intense and of longer duration.
About four percent of the population will experience gout, a number that grows because of the epidemic of abdominal obesity, according to researchers. Gout can develop for a number of reasons: genetics, diet habits and obesity. Genetics explains my case. I eat well and am not obese.
Self-published nine years ago, this book may serve as a decent but dated overview.
If you know someone who lives with gout, you might suggest these sources for current gout news, favoring those found in the .org, .gov and .edu domains:
http://www.arthritis.org/about-arthri...
https://medlineplus.gov/gout.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhe...
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/...
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-co...
https://www.cdc.gov/arthritis/basics/...
https://www.rheumatology.org/I-Am-A/P...
As a self-sufficient autodidact who likes to avoid physicians and hospitals as far as possible, I favor diet and lifestyle changes to manage my gout. That means a daily routine that includes coffee, green tea, low-fat yogurt and plenty of water, as well as eating a cup of cherries when in season, which just began, plus blueberries all year long. But gout diet management also means avoiding meats, shellfish, sugars. That may sound austere, but that’s just a baseline with everything else on top. And I always leave room for fun in the diet. In addition to foods, I also take ibuprofen, as well as the supplements turmeric, sam-e and tart cherry, calibrating the doses as flare-ups come and go. I see my doctor for gout every few years. He issues prescriptions for indomethacin, the industrial-strength NSAID that takes down the pain while dissolving the crystals.
Gout comes and goes. I hate walking like a dork when a flare-up lands in the knee, foot or ankle. I try to mask the locked-up joints at work, on sidewalks and when taking transit. Over time, bus drivers must wonder what’s going on when I favor one leg now then the other leg a few months later.
My best advice: Avoid swimming in a gene pool with gouty ancestors. Grandpa made a great grandfather, except for that predisposition to gout in his genes. And he got that from one of his ancestors, who got it from earlier ancestors.
Gouty arthritis appears intermittently, during episodes known as flare-ups. Over the years, I learned to manage and minimize it, although a six-week bout just ended, which led me to this book.
Telling other people about gout, I describe it as a million little needles on fire all pointing in different directions. White cells try to ingest the urate crystals, which are about the size of a blood cell. But the crystal kills the cell, which causes the inflammation.
This book relies on secondary research conducted by the author after his own gout diagnosis a few years before publication. His web links went dormant since then. The subtitle bothers me. Although gout delivers great pain, I do not think of myself as a sufferer. I live with gout. It's up to me to manage it. Over time, the flare-ups become less frequent but more intense and of longer duration.
About four percent of the population will experience gout, a number that grows because of the epidemic of abdominal obesity, according to researchers. Gout can develop for a number of reasons: genetics, diet habits and obesity. Genetics explains my case. I eat well and am not obese.
Self-published nine years ago, this book may serve as a decent but dated overview.
If you know someone who lives with gout, you might suggest these sources for current gout news, favoring those found in the .org, .gov and .edu domains:
http://www.arthritis.org/about-arthri...
https://medlineplus.gov/gout.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhe...
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/...
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-co...
https://www.cdc.gov/arthritis/basics/...
https://www.rheumatology.org/I-Am-A/P...
As a self-sufficient autodidact who likes to avoid physicians and hospitals as far as possible, I favor diet and lifestyle changes to manage my gout. That means a daily routine that includes coffee, green tea, low-fat yogurt and plenty of water, as well as eating a cup of cherries when in season, which just began, plus blueberries all year long. But gout diet management also means avoiding meats, shellfish, sugars. That may sound austere, but that’s just a baseline with everything else on top. And I always leave room for fun in the diet. In addition to foods, I also take ibuprofen, as well as the supplements turmeric, sam-e and tart cherry, calibrating the doses as flare-ups come and go. I see my doctor for gout every few years. He issues prescriptions for indomethacin, the industrial-strength NSAID that takes down the pain while dissolving the crystals.
Gout comes and goes. I hate walking like a dork when a flare-up lands in the knee, foot or ankle. I try to mask the locked-up joints at work, on sidewalks and when taking transit. Over time, bus drivers must wonder what’s going on when I favor one leg now then the other leg a few months later.
My best advice: Avoid swimming in a gene pool with gouty ancestors. Grandpa made a great grandfather, except for that predisposition to gout in his genes. And he got that from one of his ancestors, who got it from earlier ancestors.
June 30, 2020
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June 11, 2022
Was helpful as the wife of a gout sufferer to understand more of the biology going on.
February 10, 2011
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- this book provide useful info on how Gout is form and managed. As my father has gout, it help me understand better to understand what is written.
- it contains good discussion on different drugs used to treat gout, NSAID, Colchicine etc.
- it outline a systematic approace: (a) treating acute attacks, (b) managing hyperuricemia, (c) prophylaxis.
- good extra info about beyond gout on hyperuricemia & diet.
<<< www.BeatingGout.com >>>
- this book provide useful info on how Gout is form and managed. As my father has gout, it help me understand better to understand what is written.
- it contains good discussion on different drugs used to treat gout, NSAID, Colchicine etc.
- it outline a systematic approace: (a) treating acute attacks, (b) managing hyperuricemia, (c) prophylaxis.
- good extra info about beyond gout on hyperuricemia & diet.
May 17, 2014
Good news, my doctor reiterated most of the writer's knowledge and suggestions! Now just to follow thru........
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