Gout slide:
Many thanks to all of you who offered help in dealing with my gout flare up. The prayers are especially appreciated. Several recommended Allopurinol and advised that it is available at Walmart. Good advice for next time (Hoping there isn’t a next time). I’ll try to get a supply to have on hand.
Unfortunately, accessing the nearest Walmart to me requires either air transportation to Juneau and an overnight stay or three or four days in my boat each way. We do have a drug store here, but the local druggist doesn’t like veterans so I refuse to go there.
I took a large dose of CBD and applied a CBD cream. My wife went to the local supermarket (”Super” only in relation to the other small grocery store on the island) and was able to obtain a bag of frozen cherries. I got a 20mg prednizone tab from the veterinary clinic. Foot still a little sore but I can get around the house well enough.
All is well this morning as I sit at the table looking out at the spectacular view of snow capped mountains across Frederick Sound with floating chunks of blue ice escaped from the LeConte Glacier glinting in the sun; watching a pod of humpback whales spouting and flashing their flukes as they feed, bald eagles and ravens swooping past the window, seagulls on a bait ball farther out and ducks floating on the water close to shore. A glorious morning!
The inconvenience we endure is worth it.
Thanksgiving dinner will feature a gout friendly menu of wild Alaska King Salmon caught by a friend of ours, roasted vegetables, dried fruit with tree nuts and dark dark chocolate for desert.
Thank you all very much for your concern and advice.
Unless things have changed in the last few years, Allopurinol requires a script. If it is now available over the counter, then all the better.
I don’t have gout. But I have been told by a customer, that Juicy Juicy Cherry juice, helps his. Maybe you can get it in Alaska.
Allopurinal is really a maintenance drug does help the flare ups. Colcachine is the med of choice for flare ups. Most tylenol/ibuprofin asprin make the flare up worse. Naproxen actually does help.
Juicy Juice Cherry. Ugh!
thanks for explaining the hardships and good-ships of life as you know it!!
Hey, if your mail delivery is decent, we can send you stuff..
Alopurinol is older than dirt but still requires an Rx. You could check on line to see if WalMart Pharmacy does mail order; then you get auto refills... your Dr will have to renew the script about every 6 months. Any mail order pharmacy would supply it with a prescription, but I would not trust many of them ... too much counterfeit. Pick a reliable company.
You say 'if there is a next time'. Mostly that is the case; Allopurinol heads off the production of the purinols in the blood {and thus the uric acid} which stops the gout formation. The uric acid crystals can be destructive to the kidneys; I advise pursuing this with a Dr. As I say, I have taken it for perhaps 30 years with no more gout attacks. It is cheap enough to be worth the effort, and I know of no notable side effects. . . . Good luck, and Happy thanksgiving.
I absolutely loved your word picture of your view. All the best on that pesky gout.