All this time I thought that I was going backwards on my Sarcoidosis and it turns out that the soreness may be Gout! I never thought that I would be happy to have Gout but I really am! Gout is much easier to kick then Sarcoidosis (I think). So what we think right now is that I am still making great progress on my Sarcoid, enough that we are going to reduce the Prednisone in about 3 weeks! Yea! =)So the Gout is red spots that seem to move around in different places on my feet, get worse with exercise and is worse in one foot than the other. It is also down in my toes. It appears that it is the Gout that fells better when I put cold on it. I feel really bad because someone else who had Sarcoid (Bonnie) tried the cold water and it made it worse! I guess this explains it. It wasn’t Sarcoid that the cold water was helping.
I think I have gotten through the worst of the kidney stones. It passed and I am getting back on my feet. I’m still not feeling good, but I think that is from the other infections I am fighting and the antibiotic I am taking says that it can make you not feel well. I’m on this antibiotic for 21 days, so I hope that the feeling of unwell is mainly from the infection and not the medicine. Have to wait and see.
At first it appeared that there may be a link between the kidney stones and the gout because both can be caused by uric acid. I had my blood tested for uric acid but it came up normal. This may be due to my massive increase in drinking water. This can flush uric acid from your body and lower the reading. We won’t know for sure until they analyze the kidney stone and see what it is made out of. I should hear back on this in a few weeks.
See, you never what’s going to happen, and many times we don’t even know what is going on when we think we do. Just got to keep smiling, pushing and believing that Heavenly Father is watching over us.
Michael
1 comment:
Glad you seem to be getting somewhere! Keep your head up. This, too, shall pass.
x T
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