Recovery Worse Side Effect

The absolute worse side effect during my recovery has come from my anti-rejection medications. Somehow one of my medications caused me to have higher levels of uric acid than normal. For those that are not familiar, if you have high levels of uric acid that acid can start to crystalize within your joints causing agonizing pain and swelling. I developed gout in both ankles and my left knee, but the knee was by far the worse. At one point it got so bad I had to be hospitalized for 3 days purely because of pain. It took a couple months, but my doctors were finally able to find medications and dosages that kept my flares under control. But that pain was no joke, at times it was more painful than the post-transplant surgery pain.