Joint Pain Causes
Joint Pain Causes
Yes. Gout pain can be caused by a high purine diet. Your gout pain is actually caused by uric acid crystals in your joints, but uric acid is a byproduct of the metabolism of chemical compounds in our body called purines. So although your gout pain is the direct result of uric acid crystals, the root cause could be a high purine diet. Here you’ll discover what constitutes a high purine diet and how to replace it with a low purine diet.
Purines are chemical compounds that exist in our body and most foods. They are extremely important because they are a key component of the processes that provide us with the protein and energy we need. Uric acid is a byproduct of this process. Your kidneys then help flush uric acid from your body. Sometimes though, they aren’t efficient enough and the excess uric acid is retained, which can then form crystals in your joints, causing excruciating gout pain.
So if you’re suffering with agonising pain, and your kidneys aren’t able to flush the excess uric acid out, it just doesn’t make sense to continue eating high purine foods; giving your kidneys even more work to do, and producing even more acid. You seriously need to look at your diet, especially if it’s a high purine diet.
A high purine diet consists of the following types of food: all red meat, offal, game, gravies, poultry, roe, anchovies, shellfish, sardines, herring, mackerel, peas, lentils, beans, mushrooms, cauliflower, asparagus, yeast. Avoid alcohol, especially beer.
When suffering from agonising gout pain you need to avoid these high purine foods, which can only make the pain worse and prolong your agonies. A word of warning though: don’t stop instantly, reduce your intake gradually over time, say a few days. Instant fasting will increase your gout pain at first, but will then reduce.
So what can you eat? The following foods can be part of your low purine diet: complex carbohydrates (e.g. breads, cereals, pasta, rice, etc.), foods that are high in vitamin C, essential fatty acids (e.g. tuna, salmon, seeds), vegetables (except mushrooms, cauliflower and asparagus), low-fat dairy products, cherries, strawberries, blueberries, grapes. And drink at least 2 liters of water daily.
Getting rid of, or at the very least seriously reducing, your usual high purine diet will help get rid of your gout pain and help to speed up your recovery. But, you also need to ensure that any treatment will prevent your gout returning again. This, is important because frequently recurring gout can definitely cause permanent joint damage and kidney problems. So you need to eliminate your gout pain fast, plus, prevent your gout returning ever again.
What causes Leg Joint Pain?
I have had leg joint pain for a few months now. Its in the back of my leg where the joint meets.
If I sit on my leg or try to stretch it out, it hurts like hell. I want to go to the doctor’s, just can’t afford it since I lost my job 3 weeks ago. Any suggestions what it might be? I feel this pain in the bone.
I hope that helps. Its starting to affect the rest of my leg.
( I fractured my ankle on the same leg over 15 yrs ago, could it be arthritis?)
I’m looking for serious answers to my question, please no websites that won’t help.
No arthritis. You have a problem with the ligaments or tendons in your knee. One of the problems for knees is the tendon for the kneecap shortening up, it pulls the kneecap up on the knee and into it making it hard to bend the knee. The other problem is with the ligaments in the back of the knee. They get out of sync with each other and it becomes painful to move your leg forward and to lift it again while walking. I am lost as to which it can be so I am sending them both to you and hope you can decide although it won’t hurt anything if you do both. Here they are:
Knees:
While sitting wrap both hands around one leg right behind the knee. With your fingers find the ligaments behind the knee, two on the inside and two on the outside, only one of them is part way up the outside of your leg. (About one inch or less from the one found inside the knee) Press into them with a good amount of pressure and hold tight. Now relax, take a deep breath and exhale and don’t tense up any part of your body. After on minute slowly slide that foot forward until your leg is fully extended. Remove the pressure but rest your leg there for one minute longer.
Kneecap: (Use a chair that has no cross members on it.)
While sitting start with your leg out in front of you extended out to a comfortable length. Wrap your hands around it so you leave a open working area. Place your thumbs about two inches behind your knee and press into the top middle of your leg hard and hold. Relax. After 30 seconds, slowly slide that leg back until it is pulled up under the chair as far as you can make it go. Then release the pressure but hold your leg there for one minute longer.
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