Gouty Arthritis? How Do YOU Cope With It?

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Gouty Arthritis - Your Views

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Do you call it gouty arthritis or gout?

Do you seek a miracle cure, or just something to help with gout pain?

More importantly, do you have any interesting experiences or strong opinions?

I built GoutPal.com to make gout information easy to understand.

I'm obsessed with researching gouty arthritis, but some things are completely outside my experience.

That's where you come in.

I love getting feedback from you, and I've put forms for your questions and opinions throughout my site.

Voting for gout remedies for pain relief and remedies for gout prevention is particularly popular.

One hot topic with all gout sufferers is cherries, so I have added a page about your gout and cherry experiences.

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If you include your email address, I will try to respond personally as quickly as I can.

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Better Gout Treatment Campaign

The most important project for GoutPal.com is my campaign for better gout treatment.

Though this is in it's early days, I expect it to make a real contribution to the treatment of gout.

It is vital that you help me with this - the more views I represent, the stronger voice I have when talking to healthcare professionals.

Please help us all by completing this short form about your gout treatment experiences.

Here is what other readers think:

Votes From 1^st May 2007 - Last Reviewed: 17^th August 2009

Main gouty arthritis treatment from:

Answers

Graph

Percentage

Responses

Family Doctor

63.4

Emergency Department

4.5

Rheumatologist

10.7

Other (please describe)

21.4

Total Number of Responses:

112

Standard of DIAGNOSIS

Answers

Graph

Percentage

Responses

Poor

23.2

Good

43.8

Excellent

18.8

No Answer

14.3

Total Number of Responses:

112

Standard of ADVICE

Answers

Graph

Percentage

Responses

Poor

35.7

Good

35.7

Excellent

12.5

No Answer

16.1

Total Number of Responses:

112

Standard of TREATMENT

Answers

Graph

Percentage

Responses

Poor

33.9

Good

41.1

Excellent

10.7

No Answer

14.3

Total Number of Responses:

112

Standard of ON-GOING CARE

Answers

Graph

Percentage

Responses

Poor

39.3

Good

30.4

Excellent

7.1

No Answer

23.2

Total Number of Responses:

112

These results need further analysis, e.g. satisfaction when gouty arthritis is treated by family doctor compared to treatment by a rheumatologist. More on this after...

2009 Update: GoutPal Moving

GoutPal is moving to a new platform and so voting is closed during the move.

Please share your experiences or ask questions in the Gouty Arthritis Forum.

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Gouty Arthritis Page Created: April 2007 - Last Reviewed: 17^th August 2009