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health articles 500 [12476]How Can Gout be Diagnosed Gout is a form of rheumatism that can also lead to arthritis. It is a very painful medical condition that mostly affects men of all ages. Gout can also be found in women, but mostly those who have reached menopause. Diagnosing a gout case can be very difficult sometimes. However, there are a few procedures that will help your doctor diagnose gout. Here are some of the medical investigations that you doctor will suggest ti diagnose gout: - a blood test is maybe the first procedure that has to be made in diagnosing gout; a blood test can measure the urate level that you have in your blood; urate is the main cause of gout; however, a person can still have high urate levels in his/ her blood and still not suffer from gout; when raised levels of urate appear in the blood, this can indicate that you have gout, but this can also be caused by other medical conditions or medication that a person takes; furthermore, a person can have normal levels of urate in his/ her body during a gout attack; - after a blood test that can give doctors an idea whether you can have gout or not, to be more sure and to be able to diagnose a gout case, doctors will examine the fluid that is found in your joints; this fluid can be extracted from your joints with the help of a needle; this can show you if indeed you suffer from gout or not; the fluid is then looked at under a microscope and if there are urate crystals( they indicate gout) , then they will be spotted right away; if indeed these crystals of urate are found in your joints, then, the blood test was right and you actually suffer from gout; this examination is not at all painful and it is very useful if your gout case starts very unusual; for example, a gout case can sometimes be mistaken for another rheumatic disease, like rheumatoid arthritis and gout can mimic this diseases very well; - another investigation that can be made to diagnose a gout case is x- ra