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Neuropathy started during a gout spell
Neuropathy | Last Active: Feb 24 9:08pm | Replies (31)Comment receiving replies
Hello @tdemaria, welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. I've never heard of gout causing neuropathy but I have had several occurrences of gout in my right foot which went away fairly quickly when treated with Colchicine. I do have idiopathic small fiber peripheral neuropathy with only numbness, no pain. I did find a very short article that was interesting on the National Institutes of Health site and the Journal of the American Medical Association site..
NIH - Gouty neuropathy
-- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6314947
JAMA - Gouty neuropathy
-- https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/article-abstract/582532
Have you been diagnosed with neuropathy? I know pinched or compressed nerves can also be the source of nerve pain/damage. I'm glad you are advocating for you own health. I think the more we learn about our health problems the better we can work with our doctors to come up with treatment plans. I would keep asking my medical team if they have any solutions or treatments to help. I wouldn't be too hard on yourself. 11 days does not seem very long in a recovery process.
Hoping someone else can join your discussion and offer some suggestions.
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I have had gout for many years controlled by Colchicine when it only cost pennies per pill. I wondered if there was a connection between gout and neuropathy. After 20 years or so of coping with gout and an active life style of lifting weights and running in competitions. I was seized at the right ankle and never able to relax it. This was during a time doctors had decided acid was causing gout. They switched me to Uloric from colchicine. A diagnosis of PN was made after tests. My gout doctor immediately suspected the Uloric and stopped it. It was too late. Now I have gone through the PN for years with progression upward from the feet to balance problems. I still cling to the only thing that I believe has any beneficial effect - exercise - I still lift weights and run on the treadmill, waiting for a gifted medical scientist to suffer the problem and invent a cure. However, I can't wait much longer - I'm 92 years old.