Gouty Tophi Can Be Removed...

Where do you expect your gout attack next? In the ankles? The knees? Elbows? Or maybe the wrists? What if I tell you that it can attack your spine next? Needless to say, it is very damaging. And yes, it happens. Gout happens in the spine, just like how it happens inside the ears, the nose, and even the male private part. Gout happens virtually anywhere as long as the condition meets the criteria for gout. It is like a terrorist striking fear in the most unexpected places at the most unexpected times. This article will tackle an unexpected and very damaging version of gout. SPINAL GOUT- the name itself strikes fear. Gout in the Spine, is it POSSIBLE? It is not just possible. Gout in the spine happens. Check out this case of gout in the lumbar spine , and this case of gout in the thoracic spine . Those cases are relatively old. Just imagine the number of sufferers today. In the second case, the sufferer is from Hong Kong. What more if it is from the western countries with h...

What is the worst agony a gout sufferer experiences? Is it the burning pain? Is it the swelling? The restraint caused by the pain of moving? Surely, it is the combination of all of them. As if the combined force of these villains is not enough, these villains become IMMORTALIZED. Chronic gout. The mere fact that you suffer from it makes you cringe with pain. What more if Chronic gout comes as a package deal with tophi?  This article aims to explain chronic gout with tophi. Gout Chronic gout, as its name suggests, is believed to be gout that will NEVER go away, in a sense that a person will get gout flare-ups all through-out his lifetime (believe me when I say that not all beliefs are true). To those who is not aware of gout, it is a very cruel disease characterized by extreme burning pain and usually swelling in the affected joint. It can be caused by several factors revolving around uric acid, such as the Lesch-Nyhann Syndrome. It can also be caused by too much p...

Truly, gout has many mysteries. Most of them are unsolved, some are unanswered because we fail to recognize the root, or at least we fail to accept a paradigm shift.  One such mystery of gout is how a person gets chronic gout without tophus. Gout for the first timers Surely, when a gout sufferer comes to the doctor for the first time, the doctor can tell the situation right away. Without using any instrument and without any laboratory analysis, the inflammation and pain alone can lead the doctor to immediately and conclusively say that “Hey, that is gout”. But what if there is no inflammation at all? In this case, it will be harder to identify gout. And YES, it is possible to have chronic gout without tophus.  In fact, gout can differ from patient to patient. One can have tophus without pain, some can have pain with swelling while others can have pain without both swelling and tophus. Chronic Gout Chronic gout, by the name itself, is EVERLASTING GOUT (or a...

Gouty tophi that grows on joint is the most annoying type of tophi lump. It is fine when the size is small, but as it increases its size to become a protrude structure, this tophi lump will affect the movement of that particular joint and eventually prevent the joint from moving at all! Among the "common joints" of tophi formation are on the fingers and elbow.  Gouty tophi only happens on people who have been suffering from gout or hyperuricemia for a long period of time (more than 5 years), but tophi on elbow usually happen when high uric acid was left untreated for more than 10 years. That's why we only see tophi on elbow on older gout patients.  Unlike tophi lumps around fingers, people tend to ignore the growth of tophi on elbow. This is because tophi lump usually grow at the back of the elbow and the patient himself seldom sees it in his daily activities, even when they are standing in front of a mirror (unless when he is tying a tie). The patient only rea...

Gouty tophi only grows on people who are having hyperuricemia. Usually the tophi lumps tend to grow around the joints of the fingers, at the back of the hands or even elbow. This is because fingers has higher surface to valume ratio which results in lower temperature compared to other parts of the body. Gouty tophi finger is the result of crystallization of uric acid and lower temperature increases the rate of urate crystal formation. A healthy person doesn't need to worry about the formation of gouty tophi finger. As a matter of fact, he/she might not even heard of the tophi at all. Usually, only people who have been suffering from gout or have high uric acid for a some time will have to worry about the formation of gouty tophi finger. Trust me, you won't like to have those ugly tophi lumps growing on your hands. They won't bring you intense unbearable pain like gout attacks do, but the disappointment and helplessness you feel every time you look at your fingers is as...

The answer is... YES! But it's going to take as much time as the gouty tophus took to form to the current stage. Take a look a the video below to get an idea that gouty tophi can be dissolved naturally. But before we can talk about dissolving the existing gouty tophi, we have to focus how to stop the further formation or growth of the tophi FIRST. It makes no sense if you are try to dissolve on one end while it's still growing on the other end. First of all you have to stop eating all high purine foods or foods that are known to be able to trigger gout attack. Then you will have to start consuming more alkaline foods , generally are mostly green leafy vegetables to increase the alkaline minerals content in the body. Alkaline minerals play a very important role in 'pulling' the uric acid molecules out from the giant crystal unit of gouty tophi, alkaline mineral serves as a powerful magnet that can disengage the building blocks of the gouty tophus. Once the...

Gouty Tophi is the accumulation of urate crystal deposits underneath the skin, usually it won't cause any infection or serious pain. But if the growth of the tophus lump is not contained, it will grows to a stage in which the pressure within is strong enough to burst and leave an open wound which is the beginning of infection.  Another situation is the patient himself cannot stand having a lump on the feet that makes it inconvenient to walk or even wear a shoes, he will go to a doctor or DIY himself to poke a hole on the lump to squeeze out the white milky urate crystal fluid, if it this procedure is not handled properly, the patient may risk getting an infected gouty tophus.  Unlike the other types of skin open wounds that are caused by external factors such as scratching or cut, gouty tophi wound is unique because the actual wound is larger than you can see on the surface. This is because gouty tophi grow from inside, it has already beat a pathway throug...