question: Hi, it started yesterday around midday. I got a throbbing pain in my left thumb. It got worse, later my whole thumb was sore. It felt as it it was in the joint then, during the course of the afternoon the pain travelled to my wrist and then to my elbow. Finally to my shoulder. I don t live close to a good hospital and called a cousin who is in the medical field. He said it sounds like gout. Last night I felt a deep throbbing pain in the back of my shoulder/chest and read on the internet this morning that gout doesn t travel from joint to joint . My thumb is also still sore. Can this be gout? I m am a woman of 49, my weight is 63kg I don t smoke or drink and my blood pressure is low. I don t have cholesterol problems either.