New diet guidelines

[hhsailor]

A recent article in our local paper has a dietician recommending a diet for minimizing the formation of kidney stones that is the exact opposite of what the diet my urologist has me on. His diet is based on what seemed logical: low calcium and low oxalates to prevent the combination of the two to form a stone in the kidney. The dietitians recommendation, based on a study published in the Journal of American Nutrition and Diet, recommends a high calcium and oxalate diet on the theory that such a diet will have the calcium and oxalate combine in the digestive track before they get to the kidney. An additional concern is that the urologist recommended diet cuts out many food groups that I have come to believe are good for you: whole wheat bread and pasta, beans, leafy green vegetables, nuts, green tea, chocolate. Etc. They both can't be right.

[Laurieinwa]

Seeing a naturopath about this as I produced 40 small stones in 6 months. Just starting low oxolate diet. Join Facebook group, trying low oxalate, so you get correct lists and don't get sick going cold turkey.  Doc also has me on Vitamin K and Magnesium citrate. Look those up associated with kidney stones.

[Unclebuck257]

This is the type of thing that has driven me crazy over the years! The contradictions you can and do get from various Urologists. After 30+ years of dealing with these stones, and during that time period trying this and that as recommendations by various medical people as to what will either help eliminate stones or won't, and still getting kidney stones on a somewhat regular basis, I've come to the conclusion that they're all full of crap and don't have a real clue what they're talking about. I had surgery to remove 3 stones about 5 months ago now and sat down afterwards with the civilian Urologist and had an honest discussion with him. He was very straight forward and told me basically that if your system and body are prone to produce stones, there's not much you can do about it and diet changes etc, won't help much, if at all. He told me to drink a lot of water every day and keep taking my Flowmax pill daily. However the bottom line was that we'd be seeing each other again in the future sometime because of future kidney stones that definitely will form. I appreciated his blunt honesty and I'm passing it onto you. Eat what you enjoy because you might as well enjoy some part of this painful thing since if you're prone to form stones....apparently YOU WILL! I'm living proof of that!