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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

I'd look to see if you are eating a lot of high oxalate foods along with 
your water problem.  Calcium oxalates are a big contender in the kidney 
stone department.

I would wonder if somehow the meds you are taking aren't acting like 
oxalates in that things that are recommended (ginger, cinnamon) for RA are 
high oxalate foods.  Seems that stuff might react in the body like oxalates 
do?

Just musing outloud <g>  when I had my kidney stone (knocked me to the 
floor), my doc sent me home with enough stuff to read for 10 people and 
every now and again some of it bubbles to the surface.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> And that doesn't sound even close to my symptoms, but I know there are
> two strains of the stuff.
>
> Luckily, the ER doctor, however competent or incompetent he turns out to
> be(I will know when the culture comes back), did not make a big deal
> about it at all...no lectures, nothing, just some paperwork and lit
> about it.
>
> Yeah, whatever you got is probably my next antibiotic when the Septra is
> done.  He said that there was one more before IV stuff.  Since I started
> my own suspicion that it might be MRSA, I have self imposed the
> bleaching routine and have been, for a couple of months now, all kinds
> of stuff to take extra precautions.  There is no way, even if this is
> 'just staph' that I would want JRose to catch it...no way.
>
> My PCP said pretty much the same thing, that it was the diagnosis of the
> week.
>
> Shoot, at the hospital we were lucky that they even found it.  I was
> been discharged when I had to go to the bathroom and the urine was red.
>  Even though I came in with kidney/back pain, they concentrated first on
> the Keflex drug reaction and then on my liver/gallbladder/pancreas
> workup.  The kidney pain got lost in the shuffle until I called the
> nurse to see the red.  They quickly performed a UA, no culture, and
> wrapped it up with a nice bow saying that it, too, was MRSA related and
> that the prescribed antibiotics would also help that.
> > And, yes, what you describe sounds like a kidney stone.  Been there
> > done that and ain't planning on ever doing it again!  The pain is,
> > IMNSHO <g>, much worse than child birth!  UTIs (kidney infections),
> > on the other hand are merely annoying in comparison.
>
> I have been very lucky to be almost 50 and to have never had an UTI.  I
> believe that I did pass a stone, because there was a clear break in time
> when I started to feel better and the pain eased, not to mention the
> sudden onset of pain out of the blue.  I thought the pain of childbirth
> was a little greater, but this was scarier to me because I did not know
> what was happening or why and I felt like dying!
>
> Get this..last night my best friend called..she had been unaware of all
> of this...she told me that last Thursday, the day prior to my incident,
> she got a call from our other neighbor, C, and when she got to C's
> house, found C on the floor in pain.  Turns out C also had a kidney
> stone.  I know they are rather common, but almost everyone around here
> has had stones, so I think it might be all the calcium in the water.  We
> have very hard water here, everyone is on a well in this karst limestone
> valley.  We all may be getting a bit too much calcium and phosphorus.
> I'm not sure right now what the solution to that would be other than
> buying bottled water, which is a thought that is repulsive to me.  I
> like my hard well water, my very own mineral water, and if those
> minerals really are causing a problem, I need to figure out what I
> should be doing.
>
>
>
> > I think the last doc you saw is the go to guy!  Sounds like he didn't
> > go to graduate stick up the arse school!
>
> He's a great doc.  I've been under treatment for
> hypothyroidism(Hashimotos) since I was about 15.  I can't tell you how
> many endocrinologists I've seen in multiple states over that time.  No
> one had ever been able to get my thyroid hormones stabilized until I
> started going to him, and he is a simple general practitioner.  He never
> felt constrained by the medical lit on the subject and not only did he
> think out of the box, he prescribed out of the box, and as long as I do
> what I am supposed to do, I feel great and have no trouble.
>
> B
>
>
>
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