Gout attacks numbness

by Joel
(Illinois USA )

I am in my 40's male and have been plagued with gout pain in my foot ankle and knee on and off for nearly 5 months. The first sign of gout I experienced was tophi on my ears they developed from what I can remember at least 3 years ago, I ignored these small white bumps until last year when I decided to google the (bumps) and found they resembled tophi. I mentioned this to family and friends they all thought I was crazy "gout affects the big toe" the all said. I should have gone to a doctor right away because now I have been dealing with pain and other symptoms that I can only assume are associated with long term high uric acid levels that caused subtle and nearly painless symptoms until 5 months ago then wham!!! pain in my foot that spread to the ankle then to the knee. The swelling was bad and the pain was almost unbearable. The Doctor put me on coltracine and allopurinol and steroids for swelling. The symptoms seems to get better but other symptoms appeared blurred vision numbness and tingling in the arms and legs and sometimes around the lips. the Doctor reduced then stopped the coltracine thinking it may be the cause of the numbness. Unfortunately those symptoms are still present and the pain and swelling in the leg has been better on and off but it never has gone away completely. currently I am taking allopurinol and my uric acid levels are down to 5.4. I am hoping that with continued use of allopurinol I will get the levels down and the symptoms will eventually go away. I feel as though the pain and swelling could flair at any moment. Does anyone have numbness in the extremities? or blurred vision?