I have my big toe that has redness to it on top. Could this be gout?

I am thinking not as there is a minimum of pain. The redness waxes and wanes. It has been red for about a month. I do bruise easily and I thought it was just a bruise and would heal up.

I am on gabapentin and Tramadol for PN.

I have this too, more so since my reaction to Lisinopril.

I have spurs under the nail, and those tend to make the toe red
if the toe hits a shoe top. My right seems redder than the left, which was the one removed from my summer incident.

I assumed mine was due to the drug induced lupus I had. And my fingertips tend to redden up too... my doctor said that was a lupus sign as well.

It could be anything. If it throbs or swells, I'd get it looked at .
Gout is very painful, and you'd know if it were that. Females tend to get a Pseudogout, which is a calcium deposition, rather than uric acid which is true gout.

I have the same thing, redness around the nail, looks like an infection but never progresses, worse with some shoes. I have zero feeling in my feet so no pain.
Just weird.

[QUOTE=Susanne C.;1030963]I have the same thing, redness around the nail, looks like an infection but never progresses, worse with some shoes. I have zero feeling in my feet so no pain.
Just weird.[/QUOTE

My redness is not that close to nail. It looks like a bruise that is taking it's time to go away.

My left one is red but doctor didn't think it was gout. Have you had your uric acid checked that is not definitive but strong indication but only sample drawn from toe will tell.
If uric acid is elevated get some sour cherry capsules and celery seed cspsules. Thsesvtwo things will help lower the acid level. Read up on what foods are highbin purines and limit them

With gout you typically get a very hard swelling around the beginning/base/outside of your big toe.

It is extremely painful - I'd say as painful as full blown PN - and the swelling/deposit does not go away (in my case). The pain however does.

Limiting sugar (fructose) helps, people with chronic gout typically pay for drinking a coke or fruit juice. Lowering sugar intake lowers uric acid. Mine was 7.8 (should be < 7) and was the first sign sugar was playing havoc with my health.

Edit: just checked: the swelling is less now than a year ago, but still visible.

I have had a red, swollen, painful, hardened symptom at the base joint of my left big toe for a very long time. I never brought it to any doctor's attention, kind of forgot, due to I was dealing with so many issues and medical conditions.

I finally went to the podiatrist. She said it was arthritis. It was actually verry bad.
But the other doctors, rheumatologist included had never taken a complete look. I do have arthritis othervise diagnosed before, and now it all falls in to the picture.
I was already on a high dose Prednisone treatment for my other autoimmune/vasculitis condition.
This really helped my toe also. But now I am off the Prednisone, and the pain is back.

I still have the redness on my big toe. So that is about five weeks now. I really haven't kept track of the time. I thought it was just a bruise and didn't pay that much attention.

It doesn't seem to gotten any worse, but it also hasn't got any better. Can bruises take this long to go away?