My big toe hurts, do i have gout? what does gout feel like?

Answer 1

The main symptoms of gout is severe pain, sometimes in your elbow or knee but more often in your hand or foot, frequently at the base of your big toe. The pain usually comes without warning. Within a few hours your joint is so swollen and tender that you cannot endure even the weight of a sheet. There is often a fever of up to 101 F. The inflamed joint is likely to be red, shiny and dry.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Gout is a condition where uric acid crystals build up in the body.
This can happen in the area of the big toe and cause a lot of pain.
Our foods contain purines; some foods are higher in this than others.
The doctor may place you on a lower purine diet (of which they will usually provide you a list of foods to avoid. There is also medications that can lower the uric acid in the blood
Here an alternative way to cure gout?

Answer 4

Gout in the big toe feels like someone is sticking needles that have been frozen in liquid nitrogen into the joint in your toe.

The pain comes on unexpectedly and is excruciating.

One way to confirm is to go to your doctor and have a blood test done to check the uric acid levels in your blood.

What happens in gout is the uric acid forms crystals in your joints and the crystals irritate and damage the joints. High uric acid levels are will increase the liklihood that you have gout.

Answer 5

Gout is a form of arthritis. It's an arthritic-type pain.

Answer 6

You also might have a bunion. For several reasons, heredity, tight shoes, etc. the joint of the big toe begins to turn the toe in toward the other toes and the joint bumps out at the side of the foot.
This can be painless or very painful. It depends on how much joint inflammation & damage occurs.

Answer 7

You may have hurt it and now feeling the pain
uut you feel there a problem go to your
local health professional and see what it it

Answer 8

maybe its just an ingrown cuticle, ask a podiatrist.