I am one of the estimated 1.5 million gout sufferers in the UK, so I know I’m not alone. But I wonder how many of those afflicted suffer in silence. There is still something of a stigma attached to gout, which was known as the “disease of Kings” for its connection to high living and an unhealthy, sybaritic diet. Henry VIII? Me? You’ve got to be joking.
square SIMON KELNER I've never been more proud to be a dull man
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There are other causes, such as obesity and genetic disposition, but, taken as a whole, you can see why a condition that harks back to medieval times and suggests someone living high on the hog, overweight and over-indulgent, is not that easy to be out and proud about, particularly in the age of Ozempic and an obsession with skinniness. As the restaurant critic Giles Coren, a fellow sufferer, wrote: “Gout is so 18th-century. It’s like, why don’t I get scarlet fever and syphilis as well, while I’m about it?”
This particular series was called Around the World in First Class, which required Ms Gibson to undertake an odyssey that saw her sample the delights of first-class travel, eating and drinking her way from continent to continent.
One of the reasons behind sufferers’ reluctance to discuss their condition is the common perception that gout is in some senses self-inflicted. Certainly, that’s partly true, and the rise in diagnoses of gout (some estimates suggest as much as a doubling in the past decade) are explained by a richer diet and greater life expectancy.
And as I sit here, sharing my misery with you, my knee throbbing almost visibly, I curse my luck. Not only am I in pain, but also somewhat in shame. There’s self-recrimination, too. Much though I enjoyed it, I wish I’d never had that pint of bitter last night.
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