by Cycler » Sun May 08, 2011 1:59 am
I don't know about Creatinine levels, I have had more than 30 kidney stones up to now... and for the first time have had to have surgery to get some broken up so I could pass them. I had the last surgery on Friday. I have recently decided to become vegetarian, don't know if it will help but couldn't hurt. Yes, I am VERY tired of passing stones at the age of 38. I started passing stones as a young child, but at the time the doctors did not check for stones, they thought that it was gas.
My doctors have always said that I don't drink enough water, well its not that I don't drink enough most of the time, but some days I simply forget to drink anything, I just don't realize that I am thirsty. Its a chronic problem these days for most to drink enough. I am also now adding fresh lemon wedges to my water doc said that this would be a good thing to do. I have also started drinking Almond Milk, it has an ingredient in it that was part of a prescription my doc gave me "potassium citrate". Not sure if there is as much in that as there is in the pills, likely not, but hopefully giving up meat and dairy products will also help. I have also given up caffeine and soda's. Yes, I have the occasional caffeinated drink, but no more than once a week, if even that often. Most days I drink more than 100 oz of water over the course of the day.
I have never been in the habit of taking supplements like vitamins, but one thing I have done since I can remember is eat a bowl of cereal with milk, every morning. It was rare to do anything else. I don't do that anymore, and definitely not with cows milk if I do eat cereal. Now I switch it up with fruit, or toast, or a muffin. and I start my day with a 12 oz glass of water or watered down juice.
If there is a miracle cure, I don't know what it is yet, but I certainly hope that changing my diet to being plant based helps.