Can you get gout in your hands and fingers?

Gout can also affect the joints of the feet, ankles, knees, wrists, fingers, and elbows. Symptoms may occur after an illness or surgery. Gout may first appear as nodules (tophi) on the hands, elbows, or ears. You may not have any of the classic symptoms of a gout attack. read more

Hand gout is not as common as big toe gout (podagra), but the wrist, hands and fingers are at risk. As with other joints, understanding that gout symptoms in the hands is an inner body condition of over-acidity. read more

Squeezing (aspiration) tophi out of the finger of a gout sufferer. Watch this video on YouTube It demonstrates tophi removal from a finger by a doctor.This brings some relief. Gout in the knuckles. As mentioned above, you can also get gout in a finger’s knuckle, the places where the finger bends and joins the hand. read more

Gout is considered when a patient reports a history of repeated attacks of painful arthritis, especially at the base of the toes or in the ankles and knees. The most reliable test for gout is detecting uric acid crystals in the joint fluid obtained by joint aspiration. read more