JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for April 16, 2023

“It feels just like…”

Gout is a meat eater’s disease.

How does it feel? Like a Rolling Stone. Rolling on my foot.

Why does everyone wanna land on Clarence’s foot?

Microscopically, there’s millions of tiny, sharp crystals in the joint space..

Nice to know BOTH of my hypertension meds can cause it.

I was diagnosed with hyperuricemia or “gout” around 2009, and prescribed allopurinol. I take one 300 mg pill every morning, and have not had an outbreak since.

Clarence should ask Dr. Appleby.

Wt? Joe! You dupa. You helped him off the golf course. Why u surprised he’s limping?

Poet John Milton dies of gout. And some people die from an overdoes of narcotics used to ease the pain.

Not enough iodine, Clarence?

Richard Nixon had to gout. Nuff sed.

Drink more water and less beer. Lose a bit of weight and shift you diet away from red meat. You don’t have to be so drastic, just try adding a salad to your everyday menu. And some cherry juice.

“How does that make you feel?” Um, seriously, Joe?

BTW, cool psychiatric connection here: lithium was originally being researched as a cure for gout (worked, too), then the researcher, taking it himself, found how calm it made him feel. Grew to be prescribed as a mood regulator for bipolar disorder.

Yes there is a pill. my husband has gout and most of his family members and there are a lot of foods, meat and vegetables that can trigger gout. He had lost a lot of work because of it until he started taking the pill the downfall is, having to monitor his kidneys

Well done, Robb! Perfect way to convey agony. :)

I thought they would wait until Monday to go over Clarence’s gout and cover something else today…