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12:28 pm
April 22, 2008

Louann5840

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I have had migraines and background headaches for 25 years. Only recently (in the last month) have I had a few days where I did not wake up with a headache, or take aspiring all day through. I took aspirin an average of 2-3 times daily over those 25 years.

Now I have gout, and I am thinking it's because of the aspirin, but it works better than anything else on my headaches.

What do you think about this?

11:18 am
April 23, 2008

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Please see my earlier article on aspirin and gout.

I haven’t seen anything more recent about gout and aspirin. I wonder if it falls into the category of “affects different gout sufferers in different ways”?

Certainly, you must always be careful when mixing any medications, be they for gout, or some other condition. Many substances affect how the body produces uric acid, and where the kidneys are involved, you can never be too careful.

Regular monitoring of uric acid by your rheumatologist is vital

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1:28 am
June 9, 2009

trev

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I have noticed over a few years that prior to getting a gout attack I would get persistent headaches for a few days. because my attacks are usually separated by months I seem to forget this fact all too easily.

Or, maybe it's because it's not a recognized symptom- I downgrade my own opinion on this ?

9:18 am
June 9, 2009

zip2play

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Louann,

Aspirin is a dual edged sword. In small doses it causes the kidney to retain uric acid. In HUGE doses, like those that people had to take to control the pain of rheumatoid arthritis before they found much more expensive and usesless Laugh drugs to do the job, aspirin is a potent uricosuric (it dumps copious uric acid.)

Any aspirin use that is less than AROUND 4 grams (about 12 tabs) a day is apt to increase serum uric acid. Yes, since you are a woman not expected to get gout normally, your gout is probably secondary to your “low dose” aspirin use.

I found a wonderful migraine regimen. At the first sign of any pain or any migraine “aura” (I get doozies) I pop a 40 mg. Inderal (propranolol) and it aborts the attack. Nobody recommends it be done this way and instead recommend DAILY inderal…I'm an iconoclast.

Other drugs that I find too potent to take unless Satan is splitting my head open with a pickaxe are ergot (ergotamine, ergonovine, etc.,) Sansert, and that nasal spray (I forgot the name, alas.) First two work but feel like mescaline…spray I've never tried.

But taking anything like 2, 4 or 6 aspirin a day is going to give you gout problems…it's a no-no. And taking 12 to 16 aspirin a day is just too murderous on the stomach. You need to find a non-aspirin headache cure that works for you. I swear by the inderal…and if you have hypertension it works well for that too. Only problem…after 5PM it causes me insomnia but it's not a problem becasue my rare cluster headaches usually come in the late morning.

(Have you explored for food trigers?)

4:47 am
June 10, 2009

trev

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Post edited 9:52 am – June 10, 2009 by trev

As this is basically a migraine query I think my comment belongs here.

I recently started on a drug for Hypertension (HT) called Clonidine which I could tolerate at levels prescribed for migraines and other symptom relief (Hot-flushes,Alcohol withdrawal,ADHD) but not at the double dose required for HT.

At that level it actually brought back migraines in quick order[ 4 in a month] , but strangely- only the aura stage, in the main- without the day (or more) bad and persistent headaches.

This was after a 20 year break from migraine- a pest not unlike Gout in its' capricious behaviour.

So this is the reverse effect c.f. Inderal (HT treatment) -and with a drug that is supposed to cure migraines, also!

I suppose the lesson in all this is the drug companies and medics just haven't got the time, money or maybe always enough interest to look at all combinations of human physiology that can ( and will) occur.

In the old days, people would try folk remedies (many modern drugs are derived from these- including Colchicine) and not a few propbably paid the' ulimate' price. Unless you were Henry the 8th (who had Gout ) when , presumably, he could try henbane or whatever, on a miserable lacky.

Come to think of it , looking at peoples experiences on here we maybe re-inventing the wheel on that! ~ Only we are our own lackies…. Frown

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