It most cases a problem is attributed to inability of kidney to evacuate uric acid from your system. It leads to cristalizing of uric salts, mostly in your feet joins and causes enormous pain and deformation. Blood test might be a hint but it is probably late to take it because your body has decreased acid level this way - by dumping salts to your joints.
The reasons to the problem must be consuming too much purine rich foods and drinking too few water which normally allows to remove excessive acid with urine.
You should probably cut on alcohol, soda, red meat and beans, sardines - to eat as little protein as possible and exclude factors worsening kidney function. And of course to consume as much water as possible.
Of course it is just guesses, you better visit doctor for proper diagnosis.
Weird.
I was actually thinking about those things.
Can’t hurt.
*** inability of kidney to evacuate uric acid from your system. It leads to cristalizing of uric salts,***
Gout. People years ago when my grandma was alive always thought gout was another name for laziness.