Having gout won’t always lead to further problems, but you can reduce your risk of having complications by having treatment and making changes to your lifestyle and diet.
The most common complication of gout is progressive joint damage, which leads to long-term pain, deformed joints and eventually, disability. This may be prevented by changes to your diet and by taking medicines that lower your uric acid levels. There is also some evidence that prolonged high levels of uric acid in your body can increase your risk of vascular diseases, which may lead to a heart attack or stroke.
The most common complication of gout is progressive joint damage, which leads to long-term pain, deformed joints and eventually, disability. This may be prevented by changes to your diet and by taking medicines that lower your uric acid levels. There is also some evidence that prolonged high levels of uric acid in your body can increase your risk of vascular diseases, which may lead to a heart attack or stroke.
Other complications that you may have are as follows.
- Gout affecting several of your joints (called polyarticular gout). This happens more often in older people with gout.
- Getting kidney stones (if uric acid crystals collect in your urinary tract). This happens to between one and three in 10 people who have gout.
- Damage to your kidneys (if uric acid crystals collect in your kidney tissue).
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