This condition most commonly affects the big toe and knee joints. Gout symptoms come and go. Periods of increased symptoms are called flare-ups or gout attacks. This article discusses gout in the ...

But it can reoccur, requiring more acute treatment. A diagnosis of gout is based around the classic symptoms: excruciating pain, swelling in and around the affected joint and redness. Microscopic ...

Gout attacks usually happen in a single joint, like your big toe, or your knee. Within hours, the pain and swelling can become intense. Pain relievers and anti-inflammatories are usually ...

The patient with a synovial cyst may have other symptoms which give clues as ... Baker’s cyst is not the cyst itself but the gout inflaming the knee and the excess fluid which drains into ...