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Chronic Health Conditions Discussion and Support

Cornus

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4. Been there, done that...

Reply to Freedomofspeech (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 20, 2019, 10:36 PM

Dec 2019

I don't like taking prescription meds either. I've been prone to gout attacks for the last 20 years, usually two or three each year and usually in my ankles. I had a really bad attack earlier this year and my doc put me on a daily dose of colchicine. This has prevented another occurrence so I guess it's working and I'll just continue with it, even though I'm anti-drug, but do recognize that many do help.

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I don't know whether this is the right forum, but here goes. [View all] Blue_true Dec 2019 OP

Hope that you feel better soon... Freedomofspeech Dec 2019 #1

I am doing fine now. I had lost my appetite and the inability to simply walk was demoralizing. Blue_true Dec 2019 #2

I am 71 and in pretty good health for an old broad.... Freedomofspeech Dec 2019 #7

I think all of us have a tendency to not see stuff that we don't want to see, that Blue_true Dec 2019 #8

Same to you! Freedomofspeech Dec 2019 #9

Been there, done that... Cornus Dec 2019 #4

Yes, I don't like using pharmas as a first resort, I think that people get into other medical issues Blue_true Dec 2019 #5

Oh my gosh! Alliepoo Dec 2019 #3

Although the situation was demoralizing, I view every event in life, good or bad, as a Blue_true Dec 2019 #6

Get well Jim Riggins Jan 2020 #10

Thanks. I am feeling better now. Blue_true Jan 2020 #11