Pseudogout - no cause, no prevention, no treatment???
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Wondering why I'm having gout-like pains in odd areas when I haven't been eating the bad foods, and finally decided to *read* the references on "pseudo-gout", and without formal medical diagnosis I guess that's what I have. But reading about it - can medical science really have nothing more to say about it than "calcium crystals. happens. sorry."???
With "real" gout at least we have some partial causes, some drugs that are pretty good at preventing it, and a traditional acute palliative. For pseudo-gout, none of these?
Ouch!
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rustygecko jx41870
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I've always thought that it is simply the punishment for living so long?
Sochima822 rustygecko
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LOL then I should have been dead a long time ago. It's a hereditary predisposition. My grandma had it, my Aunt has it, and now I have it. Like my doctor says, it's genetic.
rustygecko Sochima822
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To quote the Mayo Clinic
<<Pseudo-gout has been linked to the presence of calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystals within the affected joint. These crystals become more numerous as people age, appearing in nearly half the population older than age 85. >>
Arthritis Research UK states
<<Acute CPP crystal arthritis usually affects people in late middle-age or the elderly, and it’s rare if you’re under the age of 60.>>
The Cleveland Clinic states
<<This disease is not commonly encountered in younger patients (ie, under 50 years of age) without a previous history of trauma or surgery. >>
The evidence is that pseudogout is overwhelming a disesse of the long-lived.
Sochima822 rustygecko
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Sorry but this information is obviously wrong. I was diagnosed with it in my late 20's when urine samples came back with pyrophosphate crystals. All my urine samples since come back the same but sometimes with less crystals due to drinking tons of water. But they're still there.
rustygecko Sochima822
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Example: smoking cigarettes leads to certain cancers and greater mortality, yet we all know of 99 year olds who have smoked all their life.
jacqueline01135 rustygecko
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Well,,,, that's a relief !!!!
Sochima822 jx41870
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Psuedogout and regular gout I think go together. In my early 20's I was diagnosed with psuedogout. At 14 I got my first gout attack.
Fast forward 30 years, psuedogout continues to bother especially recently. My whole body hurt, about a week ago, a family member said to take Glucosamine Chondroitin. Said to take 2 pills, I took it at night in the morning I woke up feeling 99% better. If I feel it even a little I take 2 pills at night, taken with food. Also, drinking cherry juice helps but the Glucosamine worked to relieve my pain. Hope this helps.
jx41870 Sochima822
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>Glucosamine Chondroitin
Worth a try.
?I got the regular gout pretty much under control, it seems, with celery seed (or just celery). Now in retrospect I think some of my attacks even ten years ago were actually pseudo-gout. Never have much discussed it with doctors, usually have other issues more pressing. But the 3NB in celery seed affects only the purine reactions, afaik.
?So if it's all that common in older folks, what an opportunity for a treatment. Come on medical science, cuz I'm not getting any younger!