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Suffering From Pain And Swelling In The Ankles. Diagnosed With Gout And CLL. Elevated Uric Acid Levels. How To Get Relief From The Pain?
My boyfriend has CLL and has been having a lot of difficulty with pain and swelling in the ankles. So much pain that we had to go to the emergency room because walking/bearing weight was impossible. The ER doc diagnosed it as gout & gave him a prescription without even doing labs. Follow up blood tests with his private Dr have shown normal uric acid levels and still no answers as to why the pain and swelling. He describes the pain as walking on shards of glass
Thu, 8 Aug 2013
Dear Sir,
Sorry to hear about your friend's problems. His symptoms could either be due to the uric acid crystals deposited in his feet, which will take time to go away or as a side effect of the chemotherapy which he is receiving for CLL. He should meet his oncologist and seek the appropriate pain killer.
Hoping for the best.
Sorry to hear about your friend's problems. His symptoms could either be due to the uric acid crystals deposited in his feet, which will take time to go away or as a side effect of the chemotherapy which he is receiving for CLL. He should meet his oncologist and seek the appropriate pain killer.
Hoping for the best.
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