The pain caused by gout is unbearable; gout can be treated by relieving the pain and lowering the level of "uric acid" in the patient's body. Only a doctor can determine a person's true illness, so be careful what you eat. Gout and osteoarthritis are not the same thing: osteoarthritis can be felt with every movement of the joints: knees, hips, wrists; then there are the blocked coronary arteries that feed the heart...