… was formed from Uric Acid. Which apparently comes from eating too much meat. I guess a turkey leg and a steak at every meal is too much.
There aren’t any other stones in my kidney or bladder and I now have to take Allopurinol, which apparently stops the production of Uric Acid.
Of course the nurse who called me doesn’t know the long term ramifications of this or if I’ll be on this medication permanently, but she said I could ask the doctor at my next clinic visit (in two months).
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You can ask the pharmacist. You would be amazed at how often Doctors write prescriptions for meds that interact with your other meds, or in way wrong doses, or that you should not take.
I’m with Killer. I even have a cute t-shirt with an arrow pointing northwest that says this.
Ah, kidney stones. I paced the floor like a tiger in the zoo for hours thinking, “maybe the pain will go away.”
but with the meds you can have the turkey leg and the steak, right?
If the pharmacist can’t tell you anything, I would call your doctor now and ask him or her if you can forego the medication and adjust your diet instead. Doctors overprescribe like crazy these days, and you might want to get a little more information before you start taking something new, especially if they’re saying they don’t know how it will affect you in the long-run. (I’m restraining myself from going off on a rant here; let’s just say the doctors and me, we are not cool.)
I don’t think I’d take a new medication until you talk to the doctor directly. Especially since you’re on the trial meds.
I still want to know when my order of a full marble set will be ready.
well, that’s a relief…unless you like eating alot of meat of course…and wait for two months to find out the real picture. Can you call the doctor or a nurse that knows more?
Kidney stones are horrible allopurinol will prevent uric acid stones.
However calcium stones and oxalate stones not really.
Green tea has recently been shown to prevent some stone formation in the lab
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Kidney stones are horrible allopurinol will prevent uric acid stones.
However calcium stones and oxalate stones not really.
Green tea has recently been shown to prevent some stone formation in the lab
Kidney news
sorry for typos