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Can You Get Gout in Your Hands?
This article discusses gout in the hands, including symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatment options. Gout symptoms come ...
Gout in hands is less common but can happen. In this situation, it usually affects small joints in the fingers. During a gout flare-up, you may experience symptoms that last a week or two ...
When there's an excess of uric acid in the blood, it crystalizes in the joints, usually the big toes. The most common gout symptoms include redness, tenderness, swelling, and pain.
Gout is a type of arthritis that mainly affects the small joints ... ankle, knee, small joints of the hands, and elbow. The pain in the affected area is suddenly severe and excruciating, often causing ...
Gary Ho, the co-founder of the Gout Support Group of America, remembers walking across his college campus in Southern California at age 24 in 1994 and feeling intense pain in his ankle.