Health and Wellness

feel better!!!!

Working on it...

I thought I was getting better yesterday, but towards the end of the day, my body decided to remind me that I hadn't finish passing the thing yet.

Trying to flush enough liquid through me to drown the thing out.

It's a tenacious little bugger...

Today seemed to go pretty well.

I stopped taking the pain medication (which, I think, accounts for the horrendous headache I have).  I haven't had the pain I suffered the rest of the week, but I haven't seen the stone come out.  So, it's still in me, but perhaps it's in my bladder.  It might get dissolved there, or it might eventually come out.  Dunno, but I can't wait for it forever.

And so the pain would end with a brief show of light.

I found something on Youtube (of all places) that might help with the kidney stones.  If I had only seen this from one person, I might have ignored it, but it a couple of unrelated (as in, the people don't know each other at all) folks corroborated it, so I suspect it might actually work.

It's lemon juice.  Raw, 100% from lemon, lemon juice.

It's a 12 hour regimen.  Drink about 8 oz. of raw lemon juice on the first hour.  Every hour after that, add about 1 oz. lemon juice to 7 oz. of water, and drink that.

The acid of the lemon juice effectively melts the most prevalent type of kidney stone people get (calcium oxalate, or calcium phosphate), making it easier for the kidney stone to pass.  I'm giving it a shot today, since I *still* haven't passed my kidney stone.  If it works, I might work a regular kind of lemonade from real lemons into my daily diet.

I had my first glass (all raw lemon juice) about thirty minutes ago.  Man, that was a tart drink.

I'll let you folks know how it works out.

Seems unlikely...after all your stomach is already filled with acid. A little more probably won't make a difference.  More likely it's all the water you're drinking that will help.  In any case, I hope it works!

Well, two days of it, and so far, I haven't quite had the fortune others have had.  But maybe I'm not quite doing it correctly.

It does seem to be working on that stone to some degree, though... what would normally be a terrible pain is down to a dull ache.

And I've been drinking a ridiculous amount of water already.  I have had so much fluids pass through my body in the past week it's downright absurd.

My urologist recommended making lemonade with real lemon pulp in it. There's a substance in lemon juice that is a diuretic. Do not use a mix. I supect he owns a lemon plantation, but it works. I would do the lemonade instead of chewing on lemon slices, it tastes better, it's great now in the heat, and you don't end up with a sour stomach. The citric acid effect on kidney stones is a myth. You do have my sympathy as I had one that didn't pass. Lithotripsy can be expensive.

I should add try taking magnesium as a supplement. It helps out in digestion cf calcium containing foods, and will tend to discourage calcium oxalate formation. Oh, by the way, beer contains everything needed to make stones.

Cranberry juice is supposedly good for a specific kind of kidney stone, but not the one that most people get.  It won't hurt you, though.

And it's not the calcium of the 'calcium oxalate' that you have to worry about, but the oxalate side.  Anything you can do to reduce that helps prevent and destroy those kind of stones.

Hehheh...

It's either the stone, or my insides are bruised from the abuse.