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Topic: RE: Kidney Stones
I have a kidney disease called Medullary Sponge Kidney that causes me to form stones. I was diagnosed when I was 27. My surgeon was hesitant to perform surgery as I can't take calcium supplements without adding to my stone issues.
So here's a bit of information for you. Chocolate is high in oxalates and oxalates help form stones. Everytime you want to put an M&M in your mouth, think about that kidney pain.
Hugs,
C.
So here's a bit of information for you. Chocolate is high in oxalates and oxalates help form stones. Everytime you want to put an M&M in your mouth, think about that kidney pain.
Hugs,
C.
Topic: RE: Kidney Stones
Hey there Maureen;
How are you feeling?? I haven't looked in since late last week and just now learned of your ER adventure. I haven't had kidney stones yet and am in no rush to try them on for size!! My mother had several episodes, so I hope that genetics doesn't play a role. The bottom line in all of this is that I can't give you any information on the issue of stones, but I wanted to send you my best wishes and hope that you are improving.
Big Hugs;
Mike
How are you feeling?? I haven't looked in since late last week and just now learned of your ER adventure. I haven't had kidney stones yet and am in no rush to try them on for size!! My mother had several episodes, so I hope that genetics doesn't play a role. The bottom line in all of this is that I can't give you any information on the issue of stones, but I wanted to send you my best wishes and hope that you are improving.
Big Hugs;
Mike
Topic: Kidney Stones
Hi everyone, thanks so much for your responses to my ER Day post. Do me a favor - can everyone tell us here, those folks who have reported having kidney stones, or have had them in the past - did you only get the stones after your surgery, or did the problem exist before the surgery? Thanks. Maureen
Topic: RE: Day at the ER
Now how in God's name can I take my symptoms seriously when you throw a line in like the eternity ring... I howled out loud with laughter; my kid thinks I'm losing my mind (which is ironic because he never thought I had one to begin with). Thanks for this info. I'll share it with my surgeon at my FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY appointment - just made it today. Good to hear from you, I feel a real emptiness when you're gone too long! Love ya, Maureen
Topic: RE: Day # 8
Checking in today...
Judy, you are doing fantastic! I'm really proud of you!
Here's my bad posting for the week.
Breakfast was a McDonald's Sausage Biscuit with 1/2 the biscuit. I don't even want to know how much fat was in that.
Lunch was thin 2 slices of deli ham and 2 thin slices of deli turkey and 6 low fat Triscuits.
I don't know what dinner will be. I think I might follow Reenie's lead and make a Chef Salad.
Hugs,
Connie
Judy, you are doing fantastic! I'm really proud of you!
Here's my bad posting for the week.
Breakfast was a McDonald's Sausage Biscuit with 1/2 the biscuit. I don't even want to know how much fat was in that.
Lunch was thin 2 slices of deli ham and 2 thin slices of deli turkey and 6 low fat Triscuits.
I don't know what dinner will be. I think I might follow Reenie's lead and make a Chef Salad.
Hugs,
Connie
Topic: RE: Day at the ER
Welcome to the world of the low oxalate diet. It's a rough road.
Pouch on fire and morphine shot and kidney stones and sub-lingual nausea meds don't add up to me. I've had them all and the nausea meds, morphine and even kidney stones don't cause pouch pain. I'm on morphine 24 hours a day and it doesn't cause pouch pain. Pain itself causes me nausea, but it still doesn't cause Pouch-on-Fire-Itis. I'll tell you what my wls surgeon did say will cause Pouch-On-Fire-Itis... When the intestines and Roux-N-Y limb get themselves twisted. She told us a few months ago that she has been called to the ER several times when her patients have presented with God awful pain in the pouch and X-rays and CT scans have shown that the Y junction sort of turns in on itself. She said that it almost always straightens out as food passes through.
Be glad for the Morphine that they gave you in the hospital because kidney stones without it are their own special brand of hell. The ones that I've passed before have had me projectile vomiting right before I pass out. The stones that I have now aren't causing me much distress for some reason. Personally, I'm hoping to get more stones to go with the 5 that I have and have them set into an Eternity ring. I never did pass these stones and they aren't causing me any more pain than what I already mitigate with my morphine diet so they are along for the ride.
Big Hugs,
C.
Pouch on fire and morphine shot and kidney stones and sub-lingual nausea meds don't add up to me. I've had them all and the nausea meds, morphine and even kidney stones don't cause pouch pain. I'm on morphine 24 hours a day and it doesn't cause pouch pain. Pain itself causes me nausea, but it still doesn't cause Pouch-on-Fire-Itis. I'll tell you what my wls surgeon did say will cause Pouch-On-Fire-Itis... When the intestines and Roux-N-Y limb get themselves twisted. She told us a few months ago that she has been called to the ER several times when her patients have presented with God awful pain in the pouch and X-rays and CT scans have shown that the Y junction sort of turns in on itself. She said that it almost always straightens out as food passes through.
Be glad for the Morphine that they gave you in the hospital because kidney stones without it are their own special brand of hell. The ones that I've passed before have had me projectile vomiting right before I pass out. The stones that I have now aren't causing me much distress for some reason. Personally, I'm hoping to get more stones to go with the 5 that I have and have them set into an Eternity ring. I never did pass these stones and they aren't causing me any more pain than what I already mitigate with my morphine diet so they are along for the ride.
Big Hugs,
C.
Topic: RE: Day # 8
Oh my gosh 8 pounds! Wow! Thats awesome!!! I ate too much last night. I dont know what does it. I do sooooooo good during the day then at night i screw it all up. Ok I had a little pasta 4 forks of it while I was feeding it to my little girl. 'sigh'. I had 2 meatballs too. 'sigh'. but that would've been OK but I had a small handful of almonds...then later I had pumpkin seeds....then much later... I ate a package of swiss rolls!!! OMG. it was 100 calories a roll. so 200 calories for the swiss rolls and SUGAR! 'sigh' why??? I dont know. I was craving soooo bad for something cakie and it was there. thanks GOD it was the last pack so i dont have anything cakie to eat now. I would've been OK If only i had my sugar free snack bars. Those are perfect for those cakie cravings. not tonight. I HAVE to be good tonight. ok... so for today:
Breakfast:
2 small lowfat turkey patties & decaf peppermint green tea w/milk and splenda
Lunch:
Weigh****chers italian stromboli 299 calories and SOOOO yummy!!! yep. it was bready but not really... it has a strange almost...tortilla like breading... if you can picture the inside of bread but thin?? OH more like a rice like wrapping. I dont know hard to explain but its not normal bread. more like a wrap. anywhoo....
no snack only decaf peppermint green tea w/milk and splenda no snack because that stromboli was so filling it made me dump a little in terms of getting UBER sleepy!!!
dinner:
dont know.
Topic: RE: Day # 8
WOW!!! 
Judy, this is gggggrrrrrreeeeeaaaaattttt! Your eating looks to be incredibly healthy. Keep it up, sweetie, not only are you doing great stuff for yourselve, but you are taking the lead in keeping us motivated - I'm very proud of you!!! Ok, here's my eating for today:
B: 1/2 C. cottage cheese, modest portion of cantelope and blueberries
S: celery w/ PB
L: chef salad (I added edemame today - I love edemame!)
S: apple and 10 almonds
D: protein shake w/ yogurt, strawberries
Workout (I'm doing the stationary bike for my cardio now because my knee is shot - seeing the doctor about that on Thursday)
All my water and vitamins
WE CAN DO THIS!!!!!
Peace,
Maureen
160/155/140
Judy, this is gggggrrrrrreeeeeaaaaattttt! Your eating looks to be incredibly healthy. Keep it up, sweetie, not only are you doing great stuff for yourselve, but you are taking the lead in keeping us motivated - I'm very proud of you!!! Ok, here's my eating for today:B: 1/2 C. cottage cheese, modest portion of cantelope and blueberries
S: celery w/ PB
L: chef salad (I added edemame today - I love edemame!)
S: apple and 10 almonds
D: protein shake w/ yogurt, strawberries
Workout (I'm doing the stationary bike for my cardio now because my knee is shot - seeing the doctor about that on Thursday)
All my water and vitamins
WE CAN DO THIS!!!!!
Peace,
Maureen
160/155/140
Topic: RE: Day # 8
Your doing good! wow 8 pounds! that is awesome! and your not hungry either.
My biggest problem is that I abused laxatives everyday for a month. Which set my pre-existing low blood sugar issue into over drive. its taking me over 4 months now to get myself back to normal and when i don't do what i'm suppose to i have a bad day.
sunday was a bad day. i was doing wonderfully! for several weeks now i didn't have any problems at all. I felt fantastic like my old self and though O goodie I"m all better it went away.
HA! nope it wasn' tgone!
sunday i stayed at my boyfreinds 20 minutes away from my house. then had to run home to bring the dog home then i had to run up to pomfret which is 45 minutes away for a liions meeting. i had my breakfast but didn't have my good snacks.
then at the meeting the lady made this wonderful home made chicken noodle soup. in the car i had my roast beef but didn't want to call attnetion to myself by going and getting that so i had a small bowl of the soup. it was good but th enoodles i shoud't have had.
when i left their house my daughter called and wanted to meet me at the mall that was an hour away so i ran down there. i should have eaten my roast beef but i didn't i wasn't in a rush an not hungry so i forgot to eat.
got to the mall walked with her then got alittlehungry but had left the friggin roast beef in the car along with my atkins bar so i bought a salty pretzel. its a carb but i didn't have any protein with it. so it satisfied by but didn't last.
anywho i got home late after all the running around without eating correctly at the times that i should. so i had a nasty episode. legs shaking cold, confused.
i ate my things and about an hour later started to feel better but it gives you a hazy feeling for the rest of the night and into this morning. by lunch time with eating correctly i was feeling better.
tonight i'm doing great again.
sounds like what you are doing is the south beach.
My biggest problem is that I abused laxatives everyday for a month. Which set my pre-existing low blood sugar issue into over drive. its taking me over 4 months now to get myself back to normal and when i don't do what i'm suppose to i have a bad day.
sunday was a bad day. i was doing wonderfully! for several weeks now i didn't have any problems at all. I felt fantastic like my old self and though O goodie I"m all better it went away.
HA! nope it wasn' tgone!
sunday i stayed at my boyfreinds 20 minutes away from my house. then had to run home to bring the dog home then i had to run up to pomfret which is 45 minutes away for a liions meeting. i had my breakfast but didn't have my good snacks.
then at the meeting the lady made this wonderful home made chicken noodle soup. in the car i had my roast beef but didn't want to call attnetion to myself by going and getting that so i had a small bowl of the soup. it was good but th enoodles i shoud't have had.
when i left their house my daughter called and wanted to meet me at the mall that was an hour away so i ran down there. i should have eaten my roast beef but i didn't i wasn't in a rush an not hungry so i forgot to eat.
got to the mall walked with her then got alittlehungry but had left the friggin roast beef in the car along with my atkins bar so i bought a salty pretzel. its a carb but i didn't have any protein with it. so it satisfied by but didn't last.
anywho i got home late after all the running around without eating correctly at the times that i should. so i had a nasty episode. legs shaking cold, confused.
i ate my things and about an hour later started to feel better but it gives you a hazy feeling for the rest of the night and into this morning. by lunch time with eating correctly i was feeling better.
tonight i'm doing great again.
sounds like what you are doing is the south beach.
Topic: RE: Day at the ER
I remember them telling us at the support meetings when I was first thinking about going for the surgery to get ID braclets. I never did get one but I'm going to I need to add that I'm highly allergic to penicillian along with the other stuff.
when I had to take an abulance ride the last time I kept saying I've had the surgery. of course I was awake but its scarey to think if I wasn't.
I also have on my fridge a magnet pouch that has my medical info in it. I had gotten at the fire department. they give them out so that if the ambulance has to come they check your fridge in case your out they know what you can and can't have.
when I had to take an abulance ride the last time I kept saying I've had the surgery. of course I was awake but its scarey to think if I wasn't.
I also have on my fridge a magnet pouch that has my medical info in it. I had gotten at the fire department. they give them out so that if the ambulance has to come they check your fridge in case your out they know what you can and can't have.
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