BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe

Subject: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 May 10 - 09:05 AM

Last night, for no apparent reason, my big toe started to hurt. Within hours it was red, swollen and unbendable. GOOGLE search says gout. But I say "What the hell?" I gave up my evening wine on the first of the month and now I get gout?????
I don't remember kicking anything. Dare not take aspirin if it's gout. Some of the high blood pressure meds I take can cause uric acid build up.
So I sit at my desk with an ice pack on my foot pissed off enough to go buy a bottle of bourbon.
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 May 10 - 09:21 AM

Might help!

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 May 10 - 09:40 AM

Just remembered how I hurt it. DOH! There are several levels at the new office with stairs. My desk is next to a level about a foot and a half higher. The door is off that level and pass keys weren't working. So when anyone was locked out I got up and let them in. Obviously it was ridiculous to walk to the stairway and back to the door so I hopped up the level and down. On one of thos downers, I felt my knee and foot go OUCH!.
At least I won't go back to drinking to prove a point.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 May 10 - 10:48 AM

You might see a doctor, though. It could be broken.

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 May 10 - 10:52 AM

Definitely not broken. It moves. Ice is working. It is have as big as it was this morning.
I hate getting old. Everything is wearing out.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: jeffp
Date: 25 May 10 - 11:58 AM

If you can keep it elevated, that will help too.

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: Charmion
Date: 25 May 10 - 01:33 PM

Definitely go to the doc -- whatever's causing it, you have a raging inflammation there.

Have you considered an ingrown toenail? When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 May 10 - 01:53 PM

Not an ingrown toenail. Inflammation but not infection and it is responding to ice. Swelling and redness down. Can bend the little beauty again. Maybe gout - but very unfair. Apparently healthy eating and drinkingare bad for me.

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 May 10 - 01:57 PM

Gout will go away. Rog has had a touch of it in the past; he chose not to do much except slow down on any wine, esp. red which he seems to have developed an allergy to, anyway. Keep nursing it and see how it is in a day or two, then maybe doc. Oh, and next time, take the stairs!**bg**

luvyaMarigold!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: gnu
Date: 25 May 10 - 02:05 PM

I have been into healthy eating and it's been good for me. Now, the drinking, well....

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 May 10 - 02:41 PM

Rest
Ice
Compression
Elevation

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 May 10 - 03:00 PM

Kinky, Rap.

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: gnu
Date: 25 May 10 - 03:06 PM

Mac and old cheddar cheese. With lots of pepper, COLD skim milk and fresh hot biscuits... with Omega 3 healthy margerine of course.

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 May 10 - 07:40 PM

For gout, drink cranberry juice. The alkali inhibits the formation of the painful crystals.

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: Bobert
Date: 25 May 10 - 10:10 PM

For gout, drink moonshine!!!

Forget all them home remedies... They won't work... Get you some good shine and drink a shot glass three times a day... One in the am, one in the afternoon and the last at night before bed... Three days an' the toe will be fine...

Doc Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: JennieG
Date: 26 May 10 - 02:18 AM

And if it's not fine, you won't care anyway.......

Right, Doc?

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: My guru always said
Date: 26 May 10 - 02:35 AM

Mac & cheese & Moonshine for Gout? Wish I knew that while Dad was with us but I'll remember just in case *grin*

As Rap says, R I C E is your best bet Mary, take some R&R too!

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 May 10 - 08:19 AM

Update. I am beginning to think it was a spider bite. I get really quick and nasty reactions to them. Ice packs work. My toe is absolutely normal this morning. Minor swelling and redness but no pain. And it bends again. Very weird. Yesterday I had visions of gangrene and amputation.
Does gout disappear as fast as it appeared? I don't think so.
And thank you for all that useless advice. Except of course for Rap.
SINS, AKA Twinkletoes

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: frogprince
Date: 26 May 10 - 10:24 AM

Sinsull, the red-toed 'catter
Had a tender swollen toe,
and if you ever saw it,
you would even say it glows!

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: Bettynh
Date: 26 May 10 - 11:38 AM

There's a correlation between lead poisoning and gout. Neither would heal in a couple days, tho. Ben Franklin had the gout, maybe caused by lead fortified wine. Moonshiners who use old radiators for stills can get lead poisoning and gout. So careful whose 'shine you use for a cure!
Flaking (mostly white) paint and antique plumbing are the major current worries for lead poiseoning.

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 May 10 - 12:04 PM

Which is why BOTH of the stills my brother has are made from good, honest, copper and lead-free solder. If you use lead in a 'shine still you could get into trouble with the FDA!

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 26 May 10 - 12:07 PM

For gout try dried black cherries.

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: gnu
Date: 26 May 10 - 02:56 PM

Always run your cold water first thing in the morning until you feel that "water main" temperature in the faucet. Same thing when you arrive home if you have been away all day. Same for the hot water.

And, if you have a lead entrance, replace it with copper or Kitek. I prefer type K copper but get quotes on both. If you go with Kitec (plastic) you may will have to install a new ground for the electrical system.

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 May 10 - 03:11 PM

gnu,
My co-op in NYC had to do major plumbing to comply with NYC lead regulations. But to our surprise, the levels in two buildings were still high. Why? Because the city's side of the connection was lead and they were under no obligation to change it NOR COULD WE.
So we ran water in the morning and flushed toilets to get any water that had been standing overnight through the system.
BIG SIGH.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: Becca72
Date: 26 May 10 - 03:27 PM

Gout would also be hot to the touch. My ex has it and it never "went away" without the very nasty medication to make it do so.

And there's nothing a doc will do for a broken toe.

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: Janie
Date: 26 May 10 - 08:30 PM

'Fess up, Sins. You was just lookin' fer an excuse to pop the cork an a bottle of good Cabernet. Damn toe betrayed you and got better too soon.

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: My guru always said
Date: 27 May 10 - 03:00 AM

Never drink red wine from an old pewter goblet, that'll leech the lead!

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 May 10 - 07:56 AM

Soooooo. The poor old big toe recovered rather quickly leading me to believe it was a spider bite. But this morning I side stepped a cat and slammed my other foot into a piece of furniture.
Not likely that my middle toe is broken but it hurts worse than the big toe did. SIGH.
So once again I am swollen and red and hurting. It is so hard to wear a shoe. WHIIIIINE!
At least they didn't both happen at once.
SINS, gimping.

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: gnu
Date: 27 May 10 - 10:22 AM

Git yerself sone steel-toed work boots.

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 May 10 - 10:44 AM

And wear them to bed??????

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 May 10 - 11:44 AM

Toe and foot are a lovely shade of grey blue. Kind of like the ocean. Meantime the guy across the aisle pulled a muscle in his leg. He was sitting on ice and didn't realize his plastic bag was leaking. Looks like he had another kind of accident. The walking wounded. HEH HEH

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: gnu
Date: 27 May 10 - 05:05 PM

To bed... sure, just don't wear them outside. Safety first, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: ranger1
Date: 27 May 10 - 05:44 PM

The "if it bends, its not broken" thing is a myth. When I was eight, I broke both bones in my forearm at a roller skating rink. I wasn't taken to the emergency room right away because I could bend the arm and wrist. I ended up in a cast for almost three months.

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: open mike
Date: 27 May 10 - 05:52 PM

a bear?

gout is often from eating too much meat..
and can be from a build-up or uric acid.

the main thing to do is drink copious
amounts of water, from what i hear.

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: gnu
Date: 27 May 10 - 06:13 PM

But, wine is mostly water, no?

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 May 10 - 06:24 PM

Sinsull, you need a caretaker. lol

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: Janie
Date: 27 May 10 - 07:14 PM

Sins,

Walk much?

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe (Ol' Slewfoot?)
From: Severn
Date: 27 May 10 - 07:19 PM

SINSULL!

Don't you realize the cause of your "agony of de feet" was MAINE TOE POISONING?....


SINS-cerely,
Doc Savage
(Man of Bronze & Brainze)










The bill is in the mail........

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 May 10 - 11:15 AM

Not now, Janie. This new place has a gym and I was looking forward to the treadmill and ellipticals. maybe when i get back from the long weekend.

Sev - glad to see your sense of humor has not abandoned you.

Meantime two toes are burised and there is a 2" diameter bruis on the top of my foot. Ice and elevation. It really hurts to wear a shoe but I have to be in work today.

And HALLALULAH! The Jehovah Witnesses are in town for a convention and using our parking garage (a public garage) as their central meeting place. I had to sjhow my parking pass to get past the guy blocking the entrance. Nearly ran him down.

Grumpy

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: Naemanson
Date: 28 May 10 - 04:46 PM

Sorry to hear about your troubles. Here on the island gout is very common. Nobody eats well and meat and fish are the big items on the menu. There's always someone laid up with gout.

I agree you should see a doctor.

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 May 10 - 04:50 PM

Thanks Brett. No gout. It came and went in less than 48 hours.
The stubbed toe is not so cooperative. It keeps getting more and more swollen as the bruise dissipates. Shoes hurt. As does walking.
WHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: Severn
Date: 28 May 10 - 06:00 PM

Mary*,

Can you get your yearly dues in The Jehovah's Witness Protection refunded if you can prove they've actually located you?





*If they hear me referring to you as SINS, They'll definitely seek you out, and then we can probably consider you "forgiven up for lost".

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 May 10 - 07:15 PM

Bastards let out their revival at 5PM just in time to screw up the parking garage and drive brainlessly down the streets at 5mph. They must really trust in the lord. I and about 50 other normally laid back Mainers were ready to force them off the road into ditches. Most cme from nJ which explains a lot about the driving.
Meantime the piggy who stayed home and the one with the roast beef are really swollen and bruised. The one who had no roast beef looks as if he pigged out on it.
All hurt and I am tired of stumbling around the office pretending they don't hurt. Piggies on ice tonight.
SINS, who does not handle minor pain well.

And what the hell was the guy doing in the Ladies Rest Room for two hours? SHEESH! THat's where I went to take off the shoe and give the piggies a break. Plus some asshole actually raised his voice at me on the phone. I replied in my sweetest customer service drawn out drawl "You have a real good day and thank you." He slammed the phone down so I guess I won. LOL
Now for a four day weekend.
M

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: frogprince
Date: 28 May 10 - 07:32 PM

A true toe story from over 20 years ago, that I still don't understand to this day. Banged a toe badly on the iron bed leg in my little apartment. It hurt like hell for two days. Then I managed to bang it the same way again. Sat on the bed in tears for a bit. Did manage to fall asleep before too long. Woke up, and the toe didn't hurt a bit. So maybe if you just kick something hard?

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: Bill D
Date: 28 May 10 - 07:46 PM

Toes & fingers are delicate... I once grabbed at a kitten at it ran under a footstool and jammed my middle finger on the stool. It hurt a LOT ...and took weeks to recover.

I hope this eases soon...(are sandals an option?)

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 May 10 - 12:47 AM

Now is definitely the time for RICE and do nothing this weekend, but keep it up, up, up! And, hire someone to come over to place SOFT bumper guards on all bedsteads, table legs, wallboards, etc. on which you may stub another.:-)

luvyaMarigold,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: ranger1
Date: 29 May 10 - 06:54 AM

I think we ought to just cocoon her in bubblewrap.

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 May 10 - 12:19 PM

How are your body parts today, Sinsull? Anything new? (A concrete building block fell from table height on my big toe once. Wore a sandal on that foot for three weeks.)

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 30 May 10 - 06:34 AM

I've broken two toes in my life (so far) -- the first from accidently kicking a pile of books on a late night trip to the bathroom (hurt like hell at the time, but didn't notice it was broken til the next day after walking to the beach and back -- a few miles) and the second time a few years ago when I tried to avoid stepping on a cat.

You can't do much about a broken toe except try to tape it to the toe next to it and avoid kicking anything. All an x-ray would have done was cost money and justified the doctor charging even more money.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: A Bear With A Sore Toe
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 May 10 - 10:47 AM

Hello all. STill bruised and swollen but getting better. I stayed barefoot and home yesterday and will today too. Elevated, iced and gave me an excuse to read my book.
Missed two huge flea markets and a chance to tour the Bounty. So much for my four day weekend.
The middle toe (the one choking down roast beef) may be broken but as Linn said all they will do is tape it and I can do that. I will see whay I have in the line of sandals. Barefoot feels best.
WHIIIIINE
I don't know what I will do if I ever get seriously ill. I don't do well with discomfort.
SINS