Gout Cold Sensitivity?

The foot that it the locus of this bout of gout seems to be outrageously sensitive to cold.  It feels cold when it’s not, and cold seems to make it worse.

I first noticed this last night, when I couldn’t sleep until I covered the foot with a blanket, after which I felt better, but as if it could still use another.  I probably hit the right balance, as more would have risked spiking the pressure sensitivity side of things.

It wouldn’t surprise me.  I first developed a cold-sensitive elbow that acted arthritis-like when I was a teenager, courtesy of a bumbling old doctor jabbing a needle deep into my elbow in an effort to draw blood.  Which he did, ever so slowly, but the elbow was never the same.

It became even more of a weather indicator and cold sensor, joined by the other one, after I broke that forearm and injured both elbows at the end of 1990.

I’ve had other joints and my back seem sensitive to cold, though the elbows were always the worst.

This is pretty extreme, though, as if it needs to be soaked in hot water at length.  I finally put a sock on the one foot, which merely reduced the sensation.

Man, I hope this goes away fast and stays away longer this time.

1. Are you quite sure it’s gout? If so, have you read the mayo clinic’s pages on gout? There’s a self-care one in there.

   Do you notice this occurring with any particular food? Have you kept a food diary to see if there’s a correlation with any particular food item or group of items?

   Do NSAIDs help at all?

   Ok, that is the end of my questioning.

   Posted by sarahk  on  07/26  at  09:08 PM  from  south of hell

2. Welcome to life as an auto-immune patient.  Cold sensitivity is one of the great joys of rheumatic disease. Weather sensitivity too.  I can tell when the weather is about to change a couple of days ahead of time based on how my hands feel.

   Posted by caltechgirl  on  07/27  at  12:06 AM  from 
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