Редактор газеты рассказал о борьбе с подагрой, чтобы развеять стигму вокруг болезни

Том Бернетт из Manchester Evening News публично признался в своей десятилетней борьбе с подагрой, чтобы изменить отношение общества к этому заболеванию. Журналист призывает людей не стесняться говорить о проблеме, отмечая, что число пациентов по всему миру продолжает расти.

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A regional daily’s night editor has opened up on his almost decade-long battle with gout. Tom Burnett, of the Manchester Evening News, has gone public about living with the condition in a bid to break the “stigma” surrounding it. Tom first realised something was wrong when he woke up on Boxing Day 2017 and discovered he “could barely walk”. He has since been diagnosed and has spoken about life with gout in a first-person piece for the MEN. In the piece, Tom wrote: “I’ve never put pen to paper about gout before. Partially because of that lingering (unjustified) embarrassment and also because I was not sure anyone would really care. “What changed my mind was when I was sitting on a train to Manchester Piccadilly the other week and overheard two lads a few years younger than me talking about it. “One of them had just had his first attack and was trying to articulate to his mate exactly how painful it was (no easy task). “It got me thinking that it’s not a condition that we talk about enough, and it sometimes gets dismissed as some kind of medieval or Victorian throwback in the same league as cholera and typhoid in the western world. “But sadly it’s not a remnant of the past. In fact gout is on the rise, with more and more people suffering from it. And that figure is only set to increase, with a 2024 article in the Lancet saying 98.5million people worldwide are projected to suffer from it in 2050. “There’s going to be more conversations about it whether people like it or not. There’s no one who would like to say ‘Out with Gout’ more than myself, but that’s not happening anytime soon. There’s not much to be done if it gets you – other than go to the doctor and get the medication (honestly, it works wonders). “But all I’d say is that there’s no shame in it if you do find yourself hobbling about. Don’t be afraid to talk to people about it or let you stop doing whatever you want to do. “It’s a miserable enough condition when it strikes as it is. Don’t make it worse for yourself.”