Heroldness
1st February 2011, 03:22 PM
I have so darn many questions and it seems like every source I check is just a little bit different than the last. Most of my questions are about diet. This may sound crazy but last night after going through one more site on gout and seeing that I should stay away from shell fish and herring and other fish, it dawned on me that for the past 20 years I've been taking a 1000 mg capsule of fish oil every day. I do not like fish but wanted to get the benefits in my diet of omega rich food sources like those found in fish oil. Should I stop taking those capsules or does it not make any difference?
It seems like each site has a slight variation on the list of foods I should stay away from and some of them I'm having a real problem with. Like one site listed tomatoes but none of the other sites mention them. If that site is right............................I might as well shoot myself right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I feel like I should somehow introduce myself but I'm not sure how this forum works so if I'm doing the wrong thing, please have patience with me. I'm an almost 62 year old female. I'm lucky if I have two margarettas a year, hate beer and not liking wine either. I've had a weight problem most of my life but two years ago I thought I finally had it beat. I started dieting in 2000, taking the weight off slowly over eight years and I was 42 pounds from my goal weight when two things happened. I was layed off from my job because of the economic down turn. My job was in a warehouse and it was extremely physically active, very labor intensive. After a year of not working I had put on 30 pounds and was beginning to have pain in the joints of my shoulder, elbows, wrist and feet. My first thought was "here we go again, another change in blood pressure meds". In the thirty years I've been taking them I've had to change them soooooooo often because of joint pain and rashes. So gout wasn't even on my radar even though my doctor had checked my uric acid levels several times in the past suspecting it.
The second event was that I quit smoking. One year ago on February 6. A forty year, two pack a day habit (and sometimes three). I gained another 45 pounds and now I can barely walk. It seems like the harder I try to get healthy, the sicker I get..................nobody ever told me that getting old was going to be this rough. So here I sit because my damn foot is killing me too much to get up off my fat @#% and get this body moving so I can lose this weight and maybe walk up right like a normal human again.
So, if anyone out there knows a really good source for info on diet and gout, please let me know because spring is coming and I have a hell of alot of work to do in my yard.
It seems like each site has a slight variation on the list of foods I should stay away from and some of them I'm having a real problem with. Like one site listed tomatoes but none of the other sites mention them. If that site is right............................I might as well shoot myself right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I feel like I should somehow introduce myself but I'm not sure how this forum works so if I'm doing the wrong thing, please have patience with me. I'm an almost 62 year old female. I'm lucky if I have two margarettas a year, hate beer and not liking wine either. I've had a weight problem most of my life but two years ago I thought I finally had it beat. I started dieting in 2000, taking the weight off slowly over eight years and I was 42 pounds from my goal weight when two things happened. I was layed off from my job because of the economic down turn. My job was in a warehouse and it was extremely physically active, very labor intensive. After a year of not working I had put on 30 pounds and was beginning to have pain in the joints of my shoulder, elbows, wrist and feet. My first thought was "here we go again, another change in blood pressure meds". In the thirty years I've been taking them I've had to change them soooooooo often because of joint pain and rashes. So gout wasn't even on my radar even though my doctor had checked my uric acid levels several times in the past suspecting it.
The second event was that I quit smoking. One year ago on February 6. A forty year, two pack a day habit (and sometimes three). I gained another 45 pounds and now I can barely walk. It seems like the harder I try to get healthy, the sicker I get..................nobody ever told me that getting old was going to be this rough. So here I sit because my damn foot is killing me too much to get up off my fat @#% and get this body moving so I can lose this weight and maybe walk up right like a normal human again.
So, if anyone out there knows a really good source for info on diet and gout, please let me know because spring is coming and I have a hell of alot of work to do in my yard.