Stoned, for the first time
Posted on Friday, June 3rd, 2011 at 6:45 pmDid a bit of digging on the kidney stones, and found that the cause is rather rare, at least statistically. They were formed from an excess of uric acid. Now I’ve never had them before, and gout doesn’t run in the family, so I am assuming that the illness was responsible for the excess levels that it must have taken to create them. I wasn’t dehydrated, so I can only surmise that it was the illness that attacked the purine in my body and converted it to uric acid, and that it wasn’t a diet issue.
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I passed about forty to fifty yesterday, a nasty little clump of abrasive demons scouring my urinary track from kidneys on down. None were big enough to clog the tubes, thank goodness, though they did leave their calling card. But I haven’t passed any since, and I feel better now that they’re out of my system. So I’m hoping that it will fade from here, and I’ll get better.
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If not, I’ll be going on a uric acid reducing diet. (UGH!) I’m knocking on wood until my knuckles hurt. Maybe I’ll actually be my old self again, some day soon.