Identifying Your Gout Symptoms and Signs

Do you ever feel any discomfort and pain in your joints, feet, ankles, knees, hands, even your wrists? If this uneasiness and aching continues to linger in the said areas, then you probably might want to go and see a doctor. You might have gout.

Gout may not be a very serious condition if you normally experience joint pains; but left untreated, gout can pose and rise to become a serious concern. Being familiar and having an extensive knowledge about gout symptoms may help you to fight and prevent those sudden, intense joint pains.

The symptoms of gout are fairly easy to spot. Since gout normally attacks the joints around the area of the feet, then experiencing joint aches there would be a very good sign that you might be on your way to having gout. Some other signs and symptoms of gout include the following.

• Subsistence of uric acid crystals in the joint fluid.


• Hyperuricemia or an increased quantity of uric acid in the blood.


• Attacks of acute arthritis more than a single time.


• Arthritis that increases and matures in a day or less, resulting in a warm, balmy, inflamed, and red joint.


• Infiltrations of arthritis in only one joint, which usually is in the knee, ankle, or toe, more specifically, the ball of the big toe.

The above are the main things to look out for. Other gout signs and symptoms include.

• Joint pains and aches which are isolated in only one or two joints.


• Gentleness and tenderness around the affected area, or joint.


• Movement and motion of the affected joint or limb becomes excruciatingly painful and unbearable.

Chronic and recurring gout may even lead up to kidney failure and ultimately kidney stones. If you have any of these symptoms or signs, especially if you experience signs of a gout attack, then you should rush to a nearby doctor immediately. These symptoms of gout attacks include the following.

• Chills, or fever rising and falling.


• A quick and hasty onset usually between 12-24 hours and often happening and taking place overnight during sleep.


• The pain comes and goes quickly.

If any of you out there experience any of these symptoms and signs of a gout attack, quickly head to your nearest doctor and report that you are experiencing a gout attack.

Knowing about gout symptoms may not be essential information to carry around as stock knowledge, but you never know when gout is going to strike you or any of your family members, relatives, loved ones or friends. It is better to be safe than sorry. Gout symptoms like the ones above are only some of a number of symptoms which identify gout.

To find out more about the signs of gout, you may probably want to ask your resident doctor, and also ask for the ways to prevent further gout attacks from happening. Not only will it save you from a joint-pained life, but it will also save you a lot of money caused by the amount of medical procedures required to get rid of gout.