For folks who have toe pain

I thought....
only old, fat people got gout....OOOOOOPS, that would be ME!!!
LLLOOOLLL

cabbott said:

lol
Lots of folks have been writing in with complaints of toe pain while on arimidex or such and I'm one who's vitamin D level was low, causing some of the problem. However, some of the recent posts were on pain in just one toe. I don't want them to overlook other possibilities. My cousin in his 30's got gout--needs to lay off of all those cheese pizzas I hear--so there. Now, don't you feel young!!!

no more cheese pizza???
no more cheese pizza??? arggggggggggggg!!!

Jadie said:

Gout
Thanks C Abbott

Another thing I need to ask my doctor about. My pain is in the next to big toe. Guess it dosen't matter though. Thanks for the info. What causes gout? Besides being old and fat. LOL Hate to give up those cheese pizzas.

For Folks Who Have Toe Pain
Jadie, I think gout can appear in anyone, depending upon what their food consumption (probably not children), and doesn't have an age or size preference. My ex had gout quite often, and it was because he loved to eat....not overweight, but definitely all consuming when it came to food. As far as toe pain, I have experienced neurothopy in my four toes (not the big toe) since I started chemo, and now am almost three months out of chemo treatment, and it still continues. It did lessen after about two months, and then after starting an aromatase inhibitor (Femara) I began to have an increase occurrence. Now I can hardly feel my toes on my right foot, and it feels like I have a large rock in my shoe on the bottom of my foot. I am wondering if the drug is the culprit, along with experiencing aches and pains all over my body, and top it off with depression. I have stopped Femara for a week now, and all pains seem to be subsiding, as well as my depression. I wonder??????? Sometimes we all feel like guinea pigs, and it seems to me that Femara is so new on the market that the doctors are needing stats to compare so they will know if it is really working. It is supposed to completely stop the hormone production in the body, which couldn't be good for you, and is strictly for post-menopausal women. Guess we each have our own decisions to make about our treatment, but living with all the things this drug causes doesn't leave much room for improving your overall outlook on life itself. Any thoughts, anyone?

Judy

creampuff91344 said:

For Folks Who Have Toe Pain
Jadie, I think gout can appear in anyone, depending upon what their food consumption (probably not children), and doesn't have an age or size preference. My ex had gout quite often, and it was because he loved to eat....not overweight, but definitely all consuming when it came to food. As far as toe pain, I have experienced neurothopy in my four toes (not the big toe) since I started chemo, and now am almost three months out of chemo treatment, and it still continues. It did lessen after about two months, and then after starting an aromatase inhibitor (Femara) I began to have an increase occurrence. Now I can hardly feel my toes on my right foot, and it feels like I have a large rock in my shoe on the bottom of my foot. I am wondering if the drug is the culprit, along with experiencing aches and pains all over my body, and top it off with depression. I have stopped Femara for a week now, and all pains seem to be subsiding, as well as my depression. I wonder??????? Sometimes we all feel like guinea pigs, and it seems to me that Femara is so new on the market that the doctors are needing stats to compare so they will know if it is really working. It is supposed to completely stop the hormone production in the body, which couldn't be good for you, and is strictly for post-menopausal women. Guess we each have our own decisions to make about our treatment, but living with all the things this drug causes doesn't leave much room for improving your overall outlook on life itself. Any thoughts, anyone?

Judy

Gout
Gout is a metabolism disorder. People who suffer from gout have increased uric acid levels which leads to urate crystals being deposited in the joints,which then causes the pain.

Mostly it affects men, but (good news for us-HA) postmenopausal women can also have it---especially if those women take diuretics (like Lasix).

Many times this is a tendency you inherit, but once again lucky us, it can also be caused by chemo. But, it isn't the cause in the large majority of cases.

And yes, most of the time it does affect the big toe, but in women it can be in more than the one---we get more fortunate with each fact!

There's different meds you can take to help with the symptoms, or prevent problems, depending on the cause.

Alcohol can exacerbate the symptoms, but one of the things they have you do is make sure you're getting enough fluids (easy if you continued the good habit from your chemo days).
Diet can affect it too, somewhat. Mostly it's a good idea to avoid foods high in purines, which are organ meats, shellfish,anchovies, or sardines. It used to be thought of as the rich mans disease because they were the only ones that could afford those foods---(And we keep getting luckier!)

It's definitely something you should tell your doctor about so that both of you can rule out gout, or treat it if necessary. Not to scare you, but it could affect your kidneys, besides really painful in some of the joints. Better to rule it out, and not have, yet another thing, to worry about.

If most of it stopped when you stopped Femara, it might just be from the med. Or, some of it could be chemo induced neuropathies. Did you get Taxol or Taxatere? That's a side affect with those.

Good luck,
Jan