It has become a norm for most of the gout patients to accept the 'death sentence' given by their doctors stating that gout is incurable and they have to continue on the recommended medication for the rest of their lives.

The journey usually starts with one particular pill which is the pain killer, and as the condition get worse in which the victim undergoes more painful and frequent inflammation. Then the doctor will start prescribing some gout specific drugs such as the Colchicine, a anti-inflammatory drug which is taken when the joint is still swollen in pain.

And if the uric acid level in the blood is constantly beyond range, then the next drug that will be added into the package is Allopurinol which has to be taken on daily basis to minimize the production of uric acid. This drug alone has brought in steady income of millions dollars for the pharmaceutical company that produced it because once you have started on this drug, chances are high that you will have to stick to it for the rest of your life.

For some people, the gouty condition will become worse over the years and it will be classified as chronic gout in which those drugs mentioned before do not seem to be able to provide any pain relief to the patient. This is when the doctor has to use a stronger 'weapon' to kill the pain, which is cortisone injection.

Cortisone is a steroid hormone that is naturally produced by the adrenal gland, it is released when your body is under stress, and its existence in the blood stream usually last for a very short period of time.

Gout patients must not think that cortisone is some sort of pain killer, for it is actually not. Synthetic cortisone is a very powerful anti-inflammatory drug. The reason the pain is decreased after the cortisone shot is because the inflammation is diminished. One cortisone injection can kick start its effect almost immediately and that effect can last up to several weeks.

You might think that cortisone is harmless because it is also produced by your body. Look, do you know why there are many reports that confirm all the negative effects of emotional stress to the body? It is the cortisone that 'materializes' the threat of stress to almost every part of your body! One shot of cortisone is almost equal to experiencing 2 weeks of continuous psychological stress.

Here is a list of side effects that long term dependency on cortisone can result in your body: insulin resistance (Type 2 Diabetes), osteoporosis, gastritis, hypertension, erectile dysfunction, and kidney failure. The worst side effect of all is the weakening of immune system.

Have you ever noticed that people who are constantly living a stressful life tend to have flu more often? And their running nose and sneezing symptoms of flu can last for weeks? This is a sign that their immune system is not functioning well and they are exposed to higher risk of getting other infections or diseases.

Now you see how wonderful the ecosystem of our body is? When you are suffering from the intense pain of a gout attack, you will definitely feel stressful or depressed, and this stress will signal the production of cortisone in the adrenal gland to help reduce the inflammation. It is okay if you can stand the pain and let your body do the healing, but the problem starts when you cannot wait for the natural anti-inflammatory reactions to do its job and ask for external synthetic injection to speed up the pain relief.

Conventional medical approach will never find the cure for Gout because they are not dealing with The Root Cause of Gout which is High Uric Acid. Find out the shocking ugly truth of our modern healthcare industry and the alternative solution for Gout at Truth of Gout.Com.