PODIATRIST DISCUSSES HIS BATTLE WITH GOUT

"As a 23-year-old avid athlete, I was far from an obvious candidate for a gout diagnosis. When I started experiencing flares of severe pain in my foot, I wrote it off as a sports injury, not thinking it could be something more serious. Little did I know at the time, I was one of the 9.2 million people in America who was affected by gout," says Huy D. Dang, DPM.

 

Dr. Huy Dang

 

"It wasn’t until I was 27 years with my own podiatry practice that I finally realized that my chronic foot pain was likely to be due to gout and not a sports injury. I started the regular regimen of dietary changes and oral medications, including allopurinol, which reduced the frequency of the gout attacks," said the Dr. Dang. Despite that, the disease progressed. "That is when I decided to opt for the intravenous infusion therapy. In the first 3 weeks, I started experiencing relief from my symptoms, and by the end of the month, most of my joints were functioning better." 

 

Source: Rheumatology Advisor [2/3/21]

Courtesy of Barry Block, editor of PM News