Posted by Sheilac on October 1, 2013, at 5:56:04
In reply to Re: Gout-seriously! » Sheilac, posted by SLS on October 1, 2013, at 0:13:33
No, I've never been diagnosed with gout before. This is a new one one me. I don't know if it makes your body more acidly, but when I zoomed up from 20 to 80mg of Geodon, my lips started breaking out in cancker sores, kinda line with Lamictal, so I just used a lot of moisturizer.
Over the week - 10 days, my feet, especially my left one got increasingly more painful near the ball and big toe. On top and underneath the foot. Not planter fasciitis. I figured the pain would go away so I bought orthopedic shoes (cute ones!) and my husband massaged my feet. Yesterday, I couldn't even get my shoes on I was in so much pain!
The mistake the doc said I made was icing my feet. He gave me a shot near my left big tie. It feel 75% better, and told me to take anti-inflammatories. My uric level acid is fine, but he said that's not entirely unusually. He said it can be heredity, diet, dehydration along with a lot of medications. He's alone calling me in a med to guard against future gout attacks & spreading to other joints.
He asked for a list of meds, because he said a lot of meds can cause gout, even aspirin. Geodon has a small risk of it - and let's face it, I'm the side effects queen. I'm very sensitive to meds!
He told me to talk to my doc about maybe tapering and changing meds - if that has been (and it was) the only med change over the past 2 weeks.
Also, the dehydration from Adderall contributed to it. It's important to drink tons of water with gout. Something I wasn't doing while on Geondon & Adderall. I can go go all day without food and drink on Adderall. I was too busy to stop. Maybe instead of Adderall (which makes me unstable), I just have some afternoon caffeine with lunch! Probably safer. Not as potent :(
Ibuprofen liquid gel caps & baking soda in some water helped with the pain and acidity.
My next option with my pdoc is low dose Lamictal (but I've have mouth cancker sores with that in the past), or going back to Buspar for daytime depression and sticking with Trileptal.
Only issues I have with Trileptal is bad, blurry vision - I can barely read. But it keeps me stable. I may have to stagger the dose. But I cannot give up Trileptal. Stability is very important.
So, I will discuss all this with my pdoc soon. For now, since I tapered to 40mg, I am tapering back to 20mg Geodon. Still sleeping like a rock!
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