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Sudo Gout, Pseudo Gout, or Pseudogout?

I was discussing gout with a friend yesterday, when we got onto the topic of pseudo gout. I have written about this many times before, but never known whether I should call it psuedo gout or pseudogout.

My friend mentioned that he had searched the Internet for information about pseudo gout after his doctor told him he might be suffering from it, but couldn’t find any. I expressed surprise, and mentioned that I had written about it on my gout information site and my gout discussion site, and both these are regularly found by search engines. I sat at his computer, and showed my pseudo gout postings here on Gout Pal Interactive. Then the penny dropped – with the complexities of our language, and the fact that he had never seen the term written down, he was looking for sudo gout.

If you are struggling to find information about this gout like condition, try psuedogout or pseudo gout (not sudo gout or sudogout)

Pseudogout is often confused with real gout. It can be just as painful but the causes are different. See how some of the treatments differ.