Living with Gout

In March of 2007 I had two surgeries in the lower lumbar for pain. The pain was in the lower back, left side of the left calf down to the big toe. The first surgery was unsucessful. The second one sucessful. Afterward I had numbness in the big toe which i contributed to probable permenant nerve damage. About two months later I developed pain in the tarsel and meta tarsel area, more so in the left side of the left foot. This pain has remained since then. This is a sharp burning pain that only occurs intermitantly in the early morning and lasts about a half hour. I don’t experience it during the day and body weight doesn’t seem to have any effect. There is no pain in the heal. One other symptom is a clicking feeling in the toes on the first steps I take in the morning. Thanks for the help.