"Goomba" > wrote in message
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> On 1/30/12 6:02 PM, Metspitzer wrote:
>> Since Google Groups has ruined Google's Usenet search I was unable to
>> find an active group about gout.
>>
>> I have had gout flare up in both feet at separate times. My
>> podiatrist gave me an injection of steroids directly in my foot.
>>
>> Because he is only in my town on certain days and not today, I called
>> my regular doctor. I was expecting a shot in my foot. After talking
>> to the doctor, the nurse came in and asked....Arm or hip? When I told
>> her I was expecting it in my foot she went back and asked the doctor
>> and came back with the only explanation...........He says we don't do
>> that.
>>
>> She said that it wouldn't make a lot of difference. I am guessing
>> that a local injection would have been better. No?
>
>
> good grief, why put this on a FOOD group? Why didn't you pick some other
> obscure group to post an off topic question to.

Why *not* put it here? The biggest thing one can do for gout is to to
change the diet. Right? Right? Right!
>
> Did you even bother to ask if what they were injecting was the *same* drug
> as what your podiatrist gave you!?