More Fun With the Urologist

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In addition to my more serious kidney problems, I pass stones about every 30-45 days, and I have a very acid pH. I had surgery in May to remove a stone that was thought to be causing my chronic kidney infection (which is serious) but since the surgery have had two more kidney infections and have passed another stone. And not just any stone - this one was an unusual apatite stone, which form in the presence of an infection (check) in basic pHs higher than 7.2 (nope - mine's never higher than 6, and is usually 4.5-5) and my infections were not from urea-splitting organisms, either.

The urologist wants to try me on yet another medicine to try to prevent stone formation. I've either been severely allergic or highly intolerant of the others, and the one he wants to try is not terribly safe in someone with kidney failure - like me, or effective in someone who takes 120mg of Lasix daily, as I do. I was given a rather circular argument about why I should try this drug; something like stones causing infections causing stones, and while there is some interesting research about nanobacteria causing calcium oxalate mono- and dihydrate stones (the kind I usually have), that's not what he was talking about.

Oh well. Just another strange day on Planet Urology, where none of the patient information posters are about my anatomy, and I'm frequently the only patient under 100.

In case anyone was wondering: no, in general there is no dietary modification that works to reduce kidny stone occurance though for those with idiopathic hypercalciuria, the obvious applies.

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1. Let's See - That Was Over Two Weeks Ago...

and he still hasn't come up with a dose that won't kill me or be washed out of my body instantly. How do I know this? Not because he called me to tell me this, but because he pharacy called to tell me that they were still waiting to hear back from him!