You are in a bad way, sir. Talk about a double whammy!
If you haven’t already done so, start a low oxalate diet which will help with the calcium oxalate stones. Speak with your primary care provider about getting a prescription for allopurinol. That will lower your uric acid level which should help with the stones. Those are tricky devils. They show up on CT but not on plain xrays.
It is said that pain is God’s way of telling you that you’re still alive. You are VERY alive some days.
[[That will lower your uric acid level which should help with the stones. Those are tricky devils. They show up on CT but not on plain xrays.]]
Yup- I have a 13mm stone that they thought was calcium, went in to have it smashed with sound waves, but they couldn’t see it on the Xray- so they couldn’t do the procedure- They saw it on CT scan, but when I saw they couldn’t see it on X-Ray- my head just dropped- I knew they weren’t gonna be able to do it- uggh- now they want me to take sodium bicarbonate, but i heard it could take 3-4 months- Uggh x 2- I just went 16 days in bad pain because stone kept trying to leave kidney- it couldn’t of course- now I’m looking at the stone trying to leave for 3 or so months?
I do take allopurinol- plus potassium chloride i think it is for the calcium stones- though I’ve read that stuff doesn’t work so well-
[[It is said that pain is God’s way of telling you that you’re still alive. You are VERY alive some days.]]
LOL- I always say the good thing about pain is that it eventually stops- usually
[[If you haven’t already done so, start a low oxalate diet]]
The problem with having 2 kinds of stones is that ya gotta give up so much that there’s nothing left to eat worth eating really- pasta maybe- rice, but mostly veggies- blech- I was a heavy cola drinker, but have cut that out in favor of orange soda now- no tea now, or coffee- cutting back on sugar- not entirely though- can’t eat meat I guess- but I’m not gonna quit entirely- just moderate it-
I guess sodium bicarbonate can cause calcium stones too? I was just real low on vitamin D (level was 6- supposed to be 35 or so) so had to take D- come to find out, D can cause stones too lol- Which i had 3 while on it- but i think levels must be back up so I’ll quit the D for now-
Well at least breathing doesn’t cause stones... that i know of lol