[Hasan Mahmud]

I understood.

Somehow I came to know that after taking febuxstat, pain could be increased. That’s why I have asked whether it is normal.

However, you have given a lot of advises, which seem to me vary rational. I am greatly indebted to you for your consultation. I don’t know where are you from. In my country, doctors are not so co-operative, with few exceptions. They don’t like to hear from patient very much. They provide treatment on traditional way, thinking all patients’ cases are similar. They don’t to think that some cases might be different. I have visited about dozen of doctors during last couple of years due to this pain. None of them treated me properly. Even one doctor, who is a professor of the best medical college of my country, told me to change my shoe, which he believed was cause of my pain, nevertheless, uric acid level was 390+. How funny! I have changed several pairs of shoes, but no improvement. My last doctor seemed to be a good doctor. He advised me to x-ray the joint and gave some tests. After seeing the report, he identified that it is gout arthritis. See, after six years and visiting dozen of doctors I came to know that it is gout. There are many examples of malpractices done by doctors in our country. If you interested, I will tell you one by one. Therefore, I don’t have much trust on doctors of my country. Sorry, told you a lot of negative about my country’s health sector.

[Hasan Mahmud]

Gout patients normally keep taking it for the rest of their lives. Omg!!

Doesn’t it have any side effects? Moreover, if I keep taking it for long time, wouldn’t it lower uric acid level to near zero? If so, would it be good?

One more thing to be mentioned that I am feeling more pain than before. Is it normal?

Thank you again.

[Hasan Mahmud]

Thank you very much for your reply and giving your valuable time.

The units were as below;

Creatinine umol/L
Uric Acid umol/L
ALT (SGPT) U/L
AST (SGOT) U/L

Just to be confirmed-I had a belief that after starting febuxostat, gout pain will be relieved gradually in directly proportion to the level of uric acid be decreased. Now it seems wrong. Uric acid may be decreased immediately, but the pain take time to be relieved. Is it like that?

In my present situation, should I continue febuxostat? If so, how long?

Thank you in advance.

[Hasan Mahmud]

Hi,

According to your advise I have done the following tests, whose results are as below;

June 20, 2018
Creatinine 66.70
Uric Acid 207
ALT (SGPT) 30.70
AST (SGOT) 26.90

My previous test result was as below:

May 2, 2018
Creatinine 71.00
Uric Acid 398.90
Glucose 3.97

During this period I took febuxostat. But I wonder despite the improvement in uric acid level, my pain is not improving. Sometimes, it seems to me that the pain is rather increasing. Is it like that the pain will be relieved gradually?

Would you please advise what should I do?

[Hasan Mahmud]

Okay. I will do that.

[Hasan Mahmud]

You are really great. I didn’t expect such a cordial response from here. Really this site is awesome. I am quite happy with you.

[Hasan Mahmud]

Ohh.. Creatinine. I did this test before taking drug. The test result was good. 71 umol/L. Besides this I also did Hemogram/CBC and glucose test. All test results were good according to the doctor. Should I need to test ALT and AST?

[Hasan Mahmud]

Would you please name the test of kidney? What are the other tests? If you tell me the name I will do the test.
Thank you again.

[Hasan Mahmud]

I understood. You are really helpful. Thank you a lot. I will get a new test and will let you know the result. One thing, should I stop taking medicine before getting blood test?

[Hasan Mahmud]

Thank you very much.

The blood was taken before starting febuxostat. Seeing the test report, the doctor prescribed me the above drug.

I will definitely follow your food plan. However, would you please tell me, as you said febuxostat doesn’t destroy the uric acid which are already burdened, how can I destroy it?

[Hasan Mahmud]

Suffering from GoutPain for more than 6 years

Hi,
I’m new here. I’ve been suffering from gout pain for more than 5 years. It attacks on the joint of my big toe of my left leg. I can’t even put on shoes comfortably. I visited doctors several times before. They just advised not to take meat. Recently I have visited a doctor, who prescribed faboxtat 40. Now I’m on this medicine. I have been taking this for about one month. But the pain is not improving so much. I’ve got my uric acid test which is 398.

Now can you help me to get out of this.

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