Any history of Gout Jed?
Yes staci, good call. The doctors have been trying to blame this on gout ever since I went in 2017 just after twisting my ankle. But I kept telling them:
I know what gout feels like, and this ain’t it,
The gout meds which work miracles in making gout pain go away are no help at all,
And, I twisted my ankle, so how can this pain not be due to that injury.
The proof was recently the orthopedic doctor pulled some synovial fluid out of my swollen ankle and I submitted it for uric acid crystal testing - negative. They also ran tests for infection including Lyme’s - also negative.
I expect once we rule out antoimmune, we can schedule surgery. He’ll scrape out the inflamed tissue and pack in some sort of cartilage supplement. I’ll hobble in a boot for a few weeks and hope to be hiking again this fall.