I have gout

[happy_loss]

What an old fucker I am! Painful throbbing unwalkable toe for almost a week, diagnosed with gout.

[Voodoo Billy]

It's a hell of a thing, old age. Your unwalkable throbbing is located two or three feet lower down than in used to be, and it's brought on by high living and age rather than a sixteen year old in a mini skirt. Next thing you'll be waking up to discover that your water-bed has sprung a leak, only to remember that you don't have a water-bed. It's all down hill for us all from now on.

(Please MrB can we have an emoticon for impending doom and incontinence?)

[camden jack]

Bifocals last month, and last week a hairdresser asked my if my son in the waiting area was my grandson!!
Yeah, this is the start of something really fun.

[black francis]

My sciatica!

[tonywojo]

have experiences all those symptons

[Voodoo Billy]

Last Christmas I decided to put some flooring down in the bathroom. A few days later I couldn't move my knee so I struggled to the doctor's surgery where he attempted to drain it (agony) before telling me it was a case of Prepatellar Bursitis though he kindly gave me a week off work. I struggled to the PC aided by my grandfather's old walking stick to check out the common term for this particular affliction to discover to my horror that I was suffering from 'housemaid's knee'! I will never live that one down.

[Frank The Bunny]

I struggled to the PC aided by my grandfather's old walking stick to check out the common term for this particular affliction to discover to my horror that I was suffering from 'housemaid's knee'! I will never live that one down.

I have "tennis elbow", probably from chronic masturbation.

I guess that would be "pennis elbow"

[fat cherry]

tennis elbow also, and in the last year teeth regularly crumbling. Just got two new crowns and a third in waiting and getting more nervous about eating anything with some weight behind it Soon just be using a straw or one of those cups with lids and a spout..

[moses (2)]

What an old fucker I am! Painful throbbing unwalkable toe for almost a week, diagnosed with gout.

what are you taking for it

[JackT]

I have "tennis elbow", probably from chronic masturbation.

I guess that would be "pennis elbow"

I also have "tennis elbow", probably from chronically hitting myself in the penis with a tennis racket.

[Voodoo Billy]

I also have "tennis elbow", probably from chronically hitting myself in the penis with a tennis racket.

New balls please.

[happy_loss]

what are you taking for it

They are pretty conservative with prescription meds in Japan. I'm taking something for the pain and swelling, I think a beefed up version of Ibuprofen. The doc doesn't expect another attack if I take care of myself, knock on wood (little or no drinking, watching what I eat), so no maintenance drugs, for now. I've got some friends in the states with gout, all of varying intensities and different triggers. It's a double edged sword I hear if they put you on the maintenance drugs though, b/c they can screw with your liver and have rather nasty side effects (chronic explosive diarrhea).

[withahip]

They are pretty conservative with prescription meds in Japan. .

It is like the dark ages over there. One doctor gave me shark fin powder once.

[crystal daze]

It is like the dark ages over there. One doctor gave me shark fin powder once.

You were there? In Japan!!! You learn something every day.

[Kounelaki]

It is like the dark ages over there.

They all use the Shinkansen to go back to their caves.