Do I Have Gout? Or is My Toe Exploding?

Picture this, you go to bed fine, and somewhere in the night, you go to roll over and OUCH, you wake up to the feeling like your big toe is going to explode.

Does this sound familiar?. You lay there and think about what you did before you went to bed. You know you didn't kick anything, you don't remember stubbing your toe, and you look over at your spouse or partner snoring away, and wonder if they maybe kicked you in the night.

You go to get out of bed, and you see that the joint in your big toe, is red and pounding with pain and you are sure you have broken your toe somehow.

My father-in-law went down this path, and after a visit to the doctor the next day was stunned to find out he had gout. He was also stunned to find out that gout is a form of arthritis and is very painful. His doctor prescribed him drugs, but he wanted to cure gout himself naturally. His doctor said there were ways to deal with gout with diet, so he did some research.

The first thing he did was start drinking lots of water. He didn't realize that over the last few months, he had not been drinking much water, as he didn't like plain water, but noticed that if he drank his 8 x 8 ounce glasses of water (64 ounces a day) that the pain was not as intense, and this gave him hope for other natural gout cures.

The research shows that you flush the uric acid that has formed in the joint when you keep your body hydrated. That was the first step he took on his way back to good health, and to a treatment for gout. There are many more natural remedies and tips for treating gout to keep that horrible intensive pain away, some are as close as the grocery store..

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