So, last Wednesday I went to Greenville S.C. with a load of steel. I noticed that my left knee was aching some, but not real bad. I went to sleep and woke up at 10:30 that night because it hurt like somebody had hit me in the knee with a grubbing hoe. Next morning I could barely walk. It took me over an hour to get the tarp off of the load of coils and get it folded.
Instead of going to GA. and getting the load of skid steers I came back empty because of the intense pain. My knee looked like this by Friday morning-
I went to the doctor Friday, I didn't even argue about it this time, and he wrote me a prescription for this-
I've never heard of it before. He said he would give me the prednisone again if I wanted it, but he said it had lots of side affects and it wasn't something you wanted to be taking all the time. So I said I'd give this a try. He said the biggest side affect was diarrhea...great. But I've been at home ever since, so that's a good thing.
It doesn't seem to work very quickly though, most of the pain didn't go away until yesterday, and it's still swollen now-
It's gone down some, but still not back to normal. It feels really weak when I walk too. This is the second time I've had it in my knee, and it's much worse than having it in the feets. Much worse, the pain is just unreal.
I asked the doctor about allopurinol, several people have told me they were taking it and have never had a problem with gout since they started taking it, but he said we had to get this flare-up taken care of before I started taking anything as a preventive measure.