re: Chronic Kidney Stones

Same problem.. started around 20-21 and comes in waves. I’ll have a year where I’m passing (or not passing and having to have surgery) stones and then I’ll get 6 months to a year with none and then it will happen again. I’m 30 now and it’s been about 6 months since the last one. I don’t drink soft drinks, not partaking in a high Ca diet.. only thing I can think of is my BP is pretty low and may be causing it.

In the kidney your nephrons are responsible for filtering the “waste” from your blood stream. There are two types, but I don’t want to make this more complicated so let’s just go with it. You have an arteriole going in and an arteriole going out (afferent and efferent) of each nephron. The blood goes into something called a Bowman’s capsule where our filtration happens in the glomerulous (stay with me) and basically is filtered in the capsule and then the crap (solutes, plasma etc) goes on to the loop of henle to further filter solutes and reabsorb water. In people with chronically high blood pressure the pressure going into that capsule (afferent arteriole) is too high and basically damages that blood supply.. no blood means no oxygen and now you say bye bye nephrons, hello dialysis...

So suppose the pressure going in is too low.. maybe not quite high enough to push that filtrate out.. not enough hydrostatic pressure. If there isn’t enough pressure to get that “waste” filtered and where it should be then what does it do? Maybe becomes more and more concentrated and then hello kidney stone?!?

*to all of my fellow medical professionals, please do not judge my oversimplification of a complex process*

Anyways, it’s just a therory..

CD where do u get old school coke ? Or you talkin the new original Coke?

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dont drink tea, sports/energy drinks, colas
dont eat nuts
dont eat a bunch of red meat

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Then what’s the point of living

Obviously you don't always need salt tablets.

Yes Jones... I got to Dr. Bass in Alexandria. He's an LSU grad!!

Make sure they check your parathyroid/calcium ratio, which I’m sure they have...

Got a terrible on in Memphis in 2014. I left early for work because I thought I was having back spasms and needed to stretch out. Every bump I hit in that truck on the way home felt like I was being stabbed. I went home, got upstairs, and crawled into bed.

Then it got so much worse, and the pain moved around the side. At that point I knew I needed a hospital but I didn’t know if I could get back down stairs.

Lucky for me it was my wife’s day off and when the pain temporarily subsided, she drove me to Germantown Methodist. They gave me some nice drugs. My wife took me home just in time for a tornado outbreak. High as a kite, I called everyone I knew and played on my twitter account during the storms. Pain went away after 36 hours and I had to delete my Twitter.

About 6 months later I was in Istanbul by myself on business and the familiar pain started in the middle of the night. I wasn’t about to go to the hospital in a foreign country when I didn’t speak the language. I just laid there and passed out for a while. It eventually passed. I took Flowmax, which helps a little.

I had a third much more minor one in a Mariott in Minneapolis. It hurt but nothing like before.

I’m probably due for another one. My worst nightmare is to have one on a plane.

You and I have same problem. I get them in summer too. You’re dehydrating. You want to keep your urine as clear as water. As for the other tricks, I’ve been drinking a couple cokes a week and eating a bunch of asparagus. Not sure if works, but I know the phos acid in coke will eat up anything and the asparagus makes my pee smell funny so it effecting something in the system. Same for the citric acid in lemon. If all else fails, drink a shite ton of Coors light.

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Then it got so much worse, and the pain moved around the side.

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This right here. I've been in agony lately. The worst pain that I can ever remember. I drink a couple of energy drinks a day. I have to get some relief.

I’ve had calcium oxalate stones. I had a urologist (not my treating) tell me to drink a can of diet Mountain Dew every day. He said there is a chemical compound in there that dissolves that type of stone and prevents them from forming. It sounded like counterintuitive advice to me as I figured Mountain Dew would be at top of list for things to form stones. This guy was faculty at a really good medical school.