Vsg/gout

Hey VSG community,

 I am pretty new here and will be having my surgery in April. I haven't seen anyone mention  

dealing with gout. Anyone out there have it (I do)? How do you deal with all the protein intake and keep from having flairs?

Thanks for responding.

I have not had gout, but I have read stuff on here about it. At the top of the screen is a little magnifying glass symbol nest to the drop down menu "MY OH". If you type in gout I'm sure you'll get a bunch of info on the subject.

Good luck and congrats on your upcoming surgery.

Thank you for your reply...I didn't know how to search on the site..I will look for other info on gout there.

Do you take a prescription for gout?  I have not had a flare up, but I'm on Allopurinol to control my uric acid levels.

No I just recently was diagnosed...

Oh, good question.  I don't have gout but am curious about how this would be affected.  You might do a google search on low carb diets and gout and see what happens.  I'd also search paleo and gout.  

Good ideas for searches. Thanks!

Gout...

I had several attacks (pre surgery) over the course of about 10-12 years.  It runs in my family.  My first attack landed me in the ER - begging them to cut my foot off... I really didn't know what was happening, but they diagnosed it correctly, gave me some anti-inflammatories, and I was good to go quickly.  Over the next 10 years I had some milder attacks, which I usually could attribute to Travel+Lots of walking+getting dehydrated as the combo that would trigger it.  But lots of people have different triggers...

I got to the point where I could self-diagnose and jumped on Naproxen (aleve) right away when symptoms started, and that handled it for me.

When researching the VSG, mostly on this forum, I found that many people have gout attacks right after surgery, and then they are ok long-term after that.

That has been my experience.

I spoke with my surgeon about it and they pre-cleared me to take liquid Naproxen post-surgery.  I had the surgery, and a couple days later I felt the gout attack coming.  I took the liquid naproxen, as little as I could to keep the symptoms away, and after a few days, I was fine.  

It's been 20 months since that attack, and I have not had a recurrence. A much better record than pre-surgery.

Tom

Tom,

   Thank you for your reply. I have only had two attacks back in Nov. but sure don't want to have any others!! It's good to know that having vsg doesn't cause a constant problem with flairs. I know everyone is different but your story gives me alot of encouargement. Thanks again.