[Eaker]

Stand in the middle of a room and have your worse enemy drive a rusty railroad spike through your foot into the broken glass covered floor and then run in circles.

This activity will take your mind off of the gout for a few minutes.

[HungarianGypsy]

YOU WIN! My husband says your description is about right. When he hears about women saying nothing is worse than child birth, he says gout is much worse. Having gone through child birth and seeing how he has reacted to gout I have to agree with him.

The first time he had it the cure was worse than the problem. He now relies on tea tree oil and cherries. Hasn't had a complete flare up in years.

[kenth]

It’s not necessarily an older person’s problem. I’ve had it a few times starting from my twenties. I thought nothing could be worse than gout pain, where even the slight movement of air around your foot, or other affected joint, was unbearable.

I recently sprained my SI joint; that’s the first pain I’ve ever felt that put gout to shame. It was only what I can describe as “white out” pain, where trying to stand brought such a level of pain that everything just whited out for a second.