Gout is a medical condition which poses a serious threat to your health. Gout is known to have an impact that will last a very long time. These effects of the gout can also continue between the gout attacks as well. Joint damage is one of the most common effect of the gout. Other gout complications that may have serious long term effect on your body are: nerve damage in the ares of the gout attacks, kidney stones and even problems with the function of your kidney.

The deposit of uric crystals is one of the complications that you can have when suffering from gout. These tophi get formed in the joints of your hands and feet. This gout complication usually causes deformities, damage the tissue that surrounds the area of the gout. As a result you might suffer from destruction of your joint, constant pain and more worse, compression of your nerves. This is just one of the many gout effects. It takes about ten years for a gout patient to develop a chronic gout stage. At this stage, the gout has already cause serious damage to your joints. Of course, we are talking about the joints that have been affected by the gout. Furthermore, at this stage, some damage to your kidneys may have also been cause by the gout. More than half of the gout patients that have reached this stage also suffer from tophi, which are crystals of uric acid. Studies show that a number of three gout patient out of four suffer from tophi by the time they have reached the twentieth year of their gout.

However, having some joints problems may happen sooner than expected in many gout patients.

Diet is thought by many gout patients to be the reason why they developed this medical condition in the first place. Some foods and the use of alcohol is what many blame for a gout and it' s long term complications. However, your gout can only be controlled by lowering the uric acid found in your blood. Moreover, the levels of this acid are the ones to blame for a gout attack in the first place. These levels can also indicate with some doubt, if you might suffer from another gout attack or not. However, the best thing for you is to talk to your doctor about your gout. It might also be wise for you to change some things in your diet, if you and your doctor believe that will change your gout status.