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   Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Friday, 21-Nov-2025 20:36:18 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

   Do you know how painful #gout is?

   Many people, most specially at work, dismisses gout and accuse the employee of faking it or lying.

   This is how painful: you want to amputate it than suffer for days. It's more painful than childbirth, kidney stones, getting stabbed, etc.

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     Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Friday, 21-Nov-2025 20:55:40 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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     Many of us are just stopping ourselves from praying that you suffer from gout too just so you'll understand. But we know that once you have your first gout flare-up, your body is forever broken and gout becomes an integral part of your life. All you can do is try to manage and prevent it.

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     Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Saturday, 22-Nov-2025 07:46:11 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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     • Steve Foerster 🌐

     @stevefoerster Ooh, for maintenance? We recently found "GoutX", more like food supplement. And the only ones for medication are Colchicine and Febuxostat, which I try not to take regularly because the side-effect is on the liver. 😭

     I don't want yet another episode of low platelet count. (The first one was developieg Hepatitis A and the second one was unknown, it just started to drop and recovered within 48 hours at the hospital.) And to make the liver healthier, we need to eat liver or take food suplement based on it, which is a big no for gout. Trapped in an endless cycle. 😭

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     Steve Foerster 🌐 (stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org)'s status on Saturday, 22-Nov-2025 07:46:13 JST Steve Foerster 🌐

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     @youronlyone I have gout and can confirm that when it really flares up, it really is that bad. It's the worst pain I've ever felt, even worse than when my gallbladder almost killed me.

     Fortunately, there are inexpensive generic medications that keep it in check, at least for me.

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     Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Monday, 24-Nov-2025 13:26:28 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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     • Steve Foerster 🌐

     @stevefoerster Ahh! I'll ask if I can switch!

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     Steve Foerster 🌐 (stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org)'s status on Monday, 24-Nov-2025 13:26:29 JST Steve Foerster 🌐

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     @youronlyone No, I take allopurinol, which is effective yet gentler in terms of side effects than febuxostat. It's been around since the 1960's and is well understood. If you've never considered it, you should ask your physician about it!