OK, a few weeks ago I was having muscle pain and difficulty sleeping and wondered if it had anything to do with my new LC WOE. I read about LC causing a rise in uric acid. When I asked here about that I determined the muscle pain I was having was unrelated to uric acid. I started taking an extra 1300mg of potassium per day and the muscle pain has cleared up either because of the extra potassium or just by it self or whatever...

This is something totally different now. For the past two weeks I have been having a burning pain in my left big toe only. The pain is only in the joint right behind by big toe nail, the very first joint, (not the big main joint where the back of the toe connects to the foot).

It does not seem to bother me during the day when I am up walking around, only when I lay down at night and if I lay with my toe a certain way it does not burn and I fall asleep. Now its starting to wake me up at night and for the past few nights I have been taking 400-600mg of ibuprofen which helps.

The toe is not swollen, red and does not appear effected in any way to the eye but I feel a painful burning in that joint.

One of the remedies for gout is weight loss which of course I have been working on. Also low potassium can aggravate the condition but I am already taking potassium supplement. Any other ideas on what I can do?