Posting on here for traffic I’m sorry.
I am a 31 year old woman and have symptoms of gout. On Boxing Day I started with really bad pain underneath my right big toe to the side, it was hot, red, swollen and sore. My father in law joked that it looked the same as his gout attacks, I laughed that off. Been to the GP this morning and my lord, she thinks it’s gout!
I am not a drinker, I don’t eat rich food, I am overweight and I won’t lie, I drink a can of coke a day which i have now stopped.
Have any other women on here had gout and it’s turned out not to be an underlying medical condition? Feel quite worried now! Off for my X-ray and waiting for blood tests in 4 weeks, something to do with uric acid levels.