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I have foot gout.
"some" said it looked like I ws bitten by a spider or tick, as I had a big carbunckle type thingy on my heel/achilles area.The doc said no, but always wasnt convinced that it was the gout.I think it was both.it is responding somewhat to drugs and staying off it, as I was on my feet for a solid week.

Anya yins been bitten by a spider or tick?

what did the bite look like?

did yoiu also get the got.

I wore flip flops for the first time since 1974.

BigDrawMan wrote:I have foot gout.
"some" said it looked like I ws bitten by a spider or tick, as I had a big carbunckle type thingy on my heel/achilles area.The doc said no, but always wasnt convinced that it was the gout.I think it was both.it is responding somewhat to drugs and staying off it, as I was on my feet for a solid week.

Anya yins been bitten by a spider or tick?

what did the bite look like?

did yoiu also get the got.

I wore flip flops for the first time since 1974.

I wear flip flops almost every day. Spiders know better and stay away from my delicate tootsies.

BigDrawMan wrote:I have foot gout.
"some" said it looked like I ws bitten by a spider or tick, as I had a big carbunckle type thingy on my heel/achilles area.The doc said no, but always wasnt convinced that it was the gout.I think it was both.it is responding somewhat to drugs and staying off it, as I was on my feet for a solid week.

Anya yins been bitten by a spider or tick?

what did the bite look like?

did yoiu also get the got.

I wore flip flops for the first time since 1974.

I hear that gout is aggravated by not posting a FT2N question.

When I lived in Connecticut, I was bitten by a tick.

There was a lovely bullseye pattern on my leg after it bit me.

I started getting really fatigued and was diagnosed with Lyme Disease. I went on antibiotics and it went away.

BigDrawMan wrote:I have foot gout.
"some" said it looked like I ws bitten by a spider or tick, as I had a big carbunckle type thingy on my heel/achilles area.The doc said no, but always wasnt convinced that it was the gout.I think it was both.it is responding somewhat to drugs and staying off it, as I was on my feet for a solid week.

Anya yins been bitten by a spider or tick?

what did the bite look like?

did yoiu also get the got.

I wore flip flops for the first time since 1974.

Our youngest, Pat, was recently bitten by what we thought was a spider up in his bedroom. On the back of his left thigh. It swelled up fairly horribly, then went down, then caused him massive itching and he (TMI here, really, TMI but I'm saying it anyway) popped the sucker. I told him to clean it with hydrogen peroxide, neosporin, blah blah blah. It is now going away, but it's taken three weeks.
We have brown recluses here, along with black widows, and I know the recluses cause necrosis if the bite is bad. His wasn't like that (thank you). There isn't a bullseye, but just obvious dying skin and pain and agony.

Fire ants can cause a pretty nasty pus-filled swollen bite. As can grass spiders.

Are you sure one of your paramours didn't get rambunctious?

Also, Toc is right. It may be FT2N deprivation.

Beebs52 wrote:

BigDrawMan wrote:I have foot gout.
"some" said it looked like I ws bitten by a spider or tick, as I had a big carbunckle type thingy on my heel/achilles area.The doc said no, but always wasnt convinced that it was the gout.I think it was both.it is responding somewhat to drugs and staying off it, as I was on my feet for a solid week.

Anya yins been bitten by a spider or tick?

what did the bite look like?

did yoiu also get the got.

I wore flip flops for the first time since 1974.

Our youngest, Pat, was recently bitten by what we thought was a spider up in his bedroom. On the back of his left thigh. It swelled up fairly horribly, then went down, then caused him massive itching and he (TMI here, really, TMI but I'm saying it anyway) popped the sucker. I told him to clean it with hydrogen peroxide, neosporin, blah blah blah. It is now going away, but it's taken three weeks.
We have brown recluses here, along with black widows, and I know the recluses cause necrosis if the bite is bad. His wasn't like that (thank you). There isn't a bullseye, but just obvious dying skin and pain and agony.

Fire ants can cause a pretty nasty pus-filled swollen bite. As can grass spiders.

Are you sure one of your paramours didn't get rambunctious?

Also, Toc is right. It may be FT2N deprivation.

Sounds to me like that was a brown recluse.

Bob Juch wrote:

Beebs52 wrote:

BigDrawMan wrote:I have foot gout.
"some" said it looked like I ws bitten by a spider or tick, as I had a big carbunckle type thingy on my heel/achilles area.The doc said no, but always wasnt convinced that it was the gout.I think it was both.it is responding somewhat to drugs and staying off it, as I was on my feet for a solid week.

Anya yins been bitten by a spider or tick?

what did the bite look like?

did yoiu also get the got.

I wore flip flops for the first time since 1974.

Our youngest, Pat, was recently bitten by what we thought was a spider up in his bedroom. On the back of his left thigh. It swelled up fairly horribly, then went down, then caused him massive itching and he (TMI here, really, TMI but I'm saying it anyway) popped the sucker. I told him to clean it with hydrogen peroxide, neosporin, blah blah blah. It is now going away, but it's taken three weeks.
We have brown recluses here, along with black widows, and I know the recluses cause necrosis if the bite is bad. His wasn't like that (thank you). There isn't a bullseye, but just obvious dying skin and pain and agony.

Fire ants can cause a pretty nasty pus-filled swollen bite. As can grass spiders.

Are you sure one of your paramours didn't get rambunctious?

Also, Toc is right. It may be FT2N deprivation.

Sounds to me like that was a brown recluse.

It may have been a baby. He doesn't have any wrecked skin around the bite now (as far as I know), but the length of time it has taken to suffer through it and the midterm grossness leads me to agree with you. No lines spreading out to indicate septicemia or anything. I'm always paranoid about staph with any bite.

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:When I lived in Connecticut, I was bitten by a tick.

There was a lovely bullseye pattern on my leg after it bit me.

I started getting really fatigued and was diagnosed with Lyme Disease. I went on antibiotics and it went away.

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hmmm
I had a bullseye like bump near my achilles, it took around 4 days for the swelling and redness to start-probly exacerbated by the amount of walking/standing I had to do.Prednisone and elevation have greatly reduced the swelling. the nurse practicioner Dr. No'd the spider bite theory. Though I am surrounded by deer, Lyme disease is pretty rare here, and i am nonfatigued.
I feared the brown recluse(though "some" say they dont live in West PA), but I dont see any necrosis.

I think I got the gout because I had to walk/limp differently.

Bob Juch wrote:

Beebs52 wrote:

BigDrawMan wrote:I have foot gout.
"some" said it looked like I ws bitten by a spider or tick, as I had a big carbunckle type thingy on my heel/achilles area.The doc said no, but always wasnt convinced that it was the gout.I think it was both.it is responding somewhat to drugs and staying off it, as I was on my feet for a solid week.

Anya yins been bitten by a spider or tick?

what did the bite look like?

did yoiu also get the got.

I wore flip flops for the first time since 1974.

Our youngest, Pat, was recently bitten by what we thought was a spider up in his bedroom. On the back of his left thigh. It swelled up fairly horribly, then went down, then caused him massive itching and he (TMI here, really, TMI but I'm saying it anyway) popped the sucker. I told him to clean it with hydrogen peroxide, neosporin, blah blah blah. It is now going away, but it's taken three weeks.
We have brown recluses here, along with black widows, and I know the recluses cause necrosis if the bite is bad. His wasn't like that (thank you). There isn't a bullseye, but just obvious dying skin and pain and agony.

Fire ants can cause a pretty nasty pus-filled swollen bite. As can grass spiders.

Are you sure one of your paramours didn't get rambunctious?

Also, Toc is right. It may be FT2N deprivation.

Sounds to me like that was a brown recluse.

Have you ever seen a brown extrovert?

BigDrawMan wrote:

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:When I lived in Connecticut, I was bitten by a tick.

There was a lovely bullseye pattern on my leg after it bit me.

I started getting really fatigued and was diagnosed with Lyme Disease. I went on antibiotics and it went away.

-----------
hmmm
I had a bullseye like bump near my achilles, it took around 4 days for the swelling and redness to start-probly exacerbated by the amount of walking/standing I had to do.Prednisone and elevation have greatly reduced the swelling. the nurse practicioner Dr. No'd the spider bite theory. Though I am surrounded by deer, Lyme disease is pretty rare here, and i am nonfatigued.
I feared the brown recluse(though "some" say they dont live in West PA), but I dont see any necrosis.

I think I got the gout because I had to walk/limp differently.

Also, too, our youngest used to be especially prone to reactions from mosquitoes. His bites looked like dinnerplates, with a bullseye and all that. They were just hivey reactions to things.

I think all weird insects and animals live everywhere. Hey! Cougars are on the eastward move. Anything could happen. Are you sure you weren't bitten by a feral hog?

Beebs52 wrote:

BigDrawMan wrote:

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:When I lived in Connecticut, I was bitten by a tick.

There was a lovely bullseye pattern on my leg after it bit me.

I started getting really fatigued and was diagnosed with Lyme Disease. I went on antibiotics and it went away.

-----------
hmmm
I had a bullseye like bump near my achilles, it took around 4 days for the swelling and redness to start-probly exacerbated by the amount of walking/standing I had to do.Prednisone and elevation have greatly reduced the swelling. the nurse practicioner Dr. No'd the spider bite theory. Though I am surrounded by deer, Lyme disease is pretty rare here, and i am nonfatigued.
I feared the brown recluse(though "some" say they dont live in West PA), but I dont see any necrosis.

I think I got the gout because I had to walk/limp differently.

Also, too, our youngest used to be especially prone to reactions from mosquitoes. His bites looked like dinnerplates, with a bullseye and all that. They were just hivey reactions to things.

I think all weird insects and animals live everywhere. Hey! Cougars are on the eastward move. Anything could happen. Are you sure you weren't bitten by a feral hog?

I think it's that freeloading goose family.

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote: Have you ever seen a brown extrovert?

Does Al Sharpton count?

I'm going back to the flipflop subject. This thread has taken a detour from Gout anyway - I just wanted to say I don't consider rainbows or teva's flipflops.

I have walked miles in mine & have to say they are more comfortable than any other shoe I have.

I do hope BDM gets better soon. Gout can be very hard to treat and even harder to find relief from the pain.

kayrharris wrote:I'm going back to the flipflop subject. This thread has taken a detour from Gout anyway - I just wanted to say I don't consider rainbows or teva's flipflops.

Continued from the FNGD shoes non sequitur thread:

Here are mine. They are leather, not the usual watersport Teva.





I, too, hope BDM's foot get degouted soon.

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:

Beebs52 wrote: Our youngest, Pat, was recently bitten by what we thought was a spider up in his bedroom. On the back of his left thigh. It swelled up fairly horribly, then went down, then caused him massive itching and he (TMI here, really, TMI but I'm saying it anyway) popped the sucker. I told him to clean it with hydrogen peroxide, neosporin, blah blah blah. It is now going away, but it's taken three weeks.
We have brown recluses here, along with black widows, and I know the recluses cause necrosis if the bite is bad. His wasn't like that (thank you). There isn't a bullseye, but just obvious dying skin and pain and agony.

Fire ants can cause a pretty nasty pus-filled swollen bite. As can grass spiders.

Are you sure one of your paramours didn't get rambunctious?

Also, Toc is right. It may be FT2N deprivation.

Sounds to me like that was a brown recluse.

Have you ever seen a brown extrovert?

Let me introduce you to my daughter, Annie.

silvercamaro wrote:

kayrharris wrote:I'm going back to the flipflop subject. This thread has taken a detour from Gout anyway - I just wanted to say I don't consider rainbows or teva's flipflops.

Continued from the FNGD shoes non sequitur thread:

Here are mine. They are leather, not the usual watersport Teva.





I, too, hope BDM's foot get degouted soon.

Two firsts with this post:

1. I am posting in a gout thread. To date, I have been spared from the horrors of the gout, which would explain my absence in all previous related conversations.

2. I am posting in the middle of a shoe discussion. While I do have shoes that I wear often, I am a man, which I believe renders me genetically uninterested in footwear to the degree that women often are. But, Tevas were mentioned, so I must comment:

I bought my first pair of Tevas in 1995. Twelve years later (i.e. last summer) I was still wearing them, but they were pretty worn looking, so I decided it was time to break down and get another pair. So now I own two pairs (the second being a variation of the current Hurricane 3 line.) Prior to 1995, I always wondered why you would want to pay so much for a pair of sandals, but since that initial $40 investment yielded a pair of sandals that were very nearly my only summer footwear for 12 years (and can still be worn) then I decided that it was worthwhile after all. I didn't even bat an eye when I paid $60 for the second pair, since they'll probably last even longer, given that they're being spared some rougher duty (i.e. wearing them when I float down the Guadalupe River) by the presence of the older pair.

Adventure Boy, because he lives the life he leads, is the first person on whose feet I ever saw Tevas. Because of the life he leads, he's very hard on footwear and clothing in general. He always tends to buy stuff that comes with lifetime guarantees for indestructibility, however, and it sometimes becomes "destructed" because he's banged against riverbottoms and granite boulders and cliffs and climbing ropes. He saves his guarantees and e-mails the various companies. As far as I know, the companies have honored every request for replacement. In other words, I think he's still operating on the replacements for his original purchases of Tevas, Oakley sunglasses, and some particular brand of shorts made within a range of 12 to 15 years ago. (I suspect that many of these brands may no longer come with such guarantees, and it's all his fault.)

Sometimes, some things that seem expensive "for what they are" really are worth the extra cost.

On topic post:

If I had foot gout, I'd buy a pair of Tevas to wear most of the time.

If fire ants bites caused gout, most of the South would be completely immobile by now.

silvercamaro wrote:

kayrharris wrote:I'm going back to the flipflop subject. This thread has taken a detour from Gout anyway - I just wanted to say I don't consider rainbows or teva's flipflops.

Continued from the FNGD shoes non sequitur thread:

Here are mine. They are leather, not the usual watersport Teva.





I, too, hope BDM's foot get degouted soon.[/quo

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i think what I've been wearing are called "shower shoes".

BigDrawMan wrote:

silvercamaro wrote:

kayrharris wrote:I'm going back to the flipflop subject. This thread has taken a detour from Gout anyway - I just wanted to say I don't consider rainbows or teva's flipflops.

Continued from the FNGD shoes non sequitur thread:

Here are mine. They are leather, not the usual watersport Teva.





I, too, hope BDM's foot get degouted soon.[/quo

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i think what I've been wearing are called "shower shoes".

What you MAY be suffering from is BACTERIA. Ditch the shower shoes and wash your feet, dude.

Heh.

I have black, orange, blue and purple Teva's. They are the best flip flop type sandals I have ever owned.

They are cute as well.

Maybe I need some Tevas. My boss owns an ancient pair, but instead of replacing, he gets them re-soled.


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