Long time problem. Learn from my Mistakes

Been suffering with gout half my life, finally found a doctor that takes me serious and actively trying to help me. I’ve posted on here previously about taking your allo and you gotta fight the doc sometimes. But I learned something I wish wasn’t true, and if I knew it when I was in my 20s, life would be better.
Take your meds. No ignore it. After extensive X-rays and medication, I have joints that are fractured. The gout destroyed multiple joints. Permanently. Right index finger is one bone now. Fused together. Both wrists and apparently my knee. Doc explains that extreme cases of gout, it will crush your bones. And that has happened to me. I’m a tradesmen, perfect safety records always hold people no broken bones! But years or flare ups and deformed me.
Take it from me lads, take the meds. Fix your diet. Talk to a doc. I wish I could have my hands back. I’ll never be able to play an instrument, draw, do pushups, anything that involves precision movements for the rest of my life. I’m 35. Been suffering since I was a teen. And it went ignored.