Hi Suzieq, I forgot to mention that anything that you eat or drink that contains purines can cause the gout. There are several that are very high content of purines. Sea food like crustaceans but usually not fish, Wine, and especially beer. Green leafy vegetables like spinich, then Mushrooms. Red meat, lunch meats. All of these can bring on a gout attack which will usually start while your sleeping. Then suddenly you awake about two or three in the morning with a terrible pain, usually in the lower extremities mainly at the side of your big toe but they could be anyware in any joint. At that point you will need to take a steroid like prednosone which is also bad for your kidneys, and I should know about that.
You may want to go on line and find out which foods or drinks contain purines and avoid them. A good place to start is here: http://www.livestrong.com/article/328955-food-and-drink-high-in-purines/ Now mind you, just because the list of these foods and drinks may be over-whelming that doesn't mean that you must never eat them again. If you do have the gout then you will learn what and how much of that what you can or can not eat or drink. So, if it should end up as the gout there are treatments for it besides steroids, mainly Allopurinal once a day. It comes in either 300 mg tablets or 100 mg tablets. Your doctor will probably start you on 300 mg and see what if anything happens. If it does help (providing that you actually have the gout) he or she will probably reduce the dose to 100 mg and again see what happens. There is also another drug called Indocine that may help if you already experiencing a gout attack rather then the steroids. Just so you know if you take a steroid the pain will be relived within 20 minutes, but steroids sometimes can cause other problems. In a way, I do hope that it is the gout rather then any other type of arthritis because you will only have to be on Allopurinal rather then some other strong drugs, and you need to speak with your doctor/s about any other interactions with your TKI (Gleevec, or any other TKI) with any of these drugs I have already mentioned. By the way, I have never been on any TKI but rather had a bone marrow transplant more then 23 years ago, but I used to have the gout attacks very bad, and ever since I have been on Allopurinal (100 mg) have only had one or two very mild gout attacks. This information that I have written about is what happened to me. Since we are all different and use different medications what may be either good or bad for me may not be good or bad for you. You should always sit down with your doctor/s and have an informed discussion with them. 18,s Marty On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Suzieq <sheila.a.wat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Marty: > I found a bottle of Cherry Concentrate Juice, only have to mix two > tablespoons with some water or whatever I want to drink. Course, it cost > right at $18 for about a quart bottle, but will last a good long while. > This grocery store is the only one I found that carries this juice. And, I > did read labels and saw where most juices are flavored Apple juice or grape > juice. You think when it says 100% Juice, that's what you are getting > until you read the label and find out just what sort of juices are mixed > together. LOL!!! Plus, bought some dried Cherries & eat some of those as > well as I bought a bottle of Cherry Wine. So, I think I did pretty good. > :) There aren't any nice fresh Cherries available here yet, I looked. > Normally, they cost as arm & leg when they do first show up in the > produce isle. :) I am going to discuss this matter of Gout with my > Hem./Onc. when I see her at the end of the month. > > Keep Looking Up, Suzieq > > >> -- > -- > [CMLHope] > A support group of http://cmlhope.com > ------------------------------------------------- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CMLHope" group. > To post to this group, send email to CMLHope@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > cmlhope-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CMLHope" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to cmlhope+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To post to this group, send email to CMLHope@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cmlhope-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cmlhope+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
