I’m passinga kidney stone – have passed them for 13 years – since I was about 24. Anyway, this one is a painful son of a gun…..and it’s near the ‘final frontier’ – just wondering if you have any advice as to how to get it out. I am drinking lots and lots of water….and I have been doing my normal morning workouts….but it’s quite achey……and in the past, Doc’s have told me that ‘movement’ is key – so walking, exercise, etc is good, if you can do it.

I do think I have a pretty high threshold for pain……but the gnawing pain is really getting old.

The largest stone I’ve ever passed is the size of half of an Advil…..which is pretty big…..and I’m concerned that this one is larger…..

I’m an old pro with it comes to passing kidney stones, but if you have any advice, I’m all ears (or eyes since we’re reading it here.)
When I was going through chemotherapy (Jan-July 2007) I was taking Allopurinol…..and I must admit, while it’s a good chemo-for-cancer drug, it is also used to eliminate the formation of kidney stones/gout. Anyway, I felt that during that time, my kidneys felt great….no pain at all. Not sure why doc didn’t prescribe this for me….but I think once this/these pass, I’ll have to go and have it prescribed…..I can’t live like this…

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I am a 35 year old male. 6’1 320 lb… Married and a father of two children… I am sick almost all the time. Into my mid 20s I was an athlete. When I had an injury that the doctors called a soft tissue injury of the ankle… They treated this by throwing pain killers at me for 7 years until I saw a specialist who told me it was in fact acute gout. I was told additionally I have a genetic condition called hyperlipidima my body naturally makes to many lipids. I was told they were over 10,000. Needless to say they were amazed I was alive. I have normal to low blood pressure. My cholesterol was 280…and is now 200. last time I had it checked. I have an uncler where my esophagus meets my stomach. They gave me a generic form of nexium to fix it. And it did from what I can tell.
I have this wonderful pain in my abdomen like all my organs get swollen and I also at that time double over in pain from cramps, as well as excessive gas and belching some kind of sulfur smelling something… It makes me vomit and have diarrhea to the point I lay on the bathroom floor and just hope if I was to fall asleep I would not wake up. I am tired, angry, cranky, depressed, and at a total loss. I talk to the doctor who tells me to losse weight. So, I try and well when I move it feels like 10000000 pins are slamming through my ankle so exercise is not easy. I can’t swim because I live in a cold weather region. I break bikes…flat out. I have lost 30 lb by diet modification. I cut out sugar and soda. I eat more veggies and less fats and red meat. Mostly because if I don’t I get a massive wave of pain from eating that stuff. I don’t sleep well… I have trouble breathing….I can’t stand for more then 2o min at a time…and if I do I can’t move for 3 days unless u take 800 mg anti-inflammation drugs. I have uric acid deposits in my feet. I take alloperinol for that when I can afford it. I can’t do this anymore. This needs to get fixed or I am a dead man. Oh and I have kidney stones…too…weee.

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Now I feel lower back pain and testicular pain with a touch of abdominal. I am wondering if it is kidney stones. I often have to force my urine, sometimes I go so much more than I have drank water in that recent time frame, all I drink is water and I have a very limited diet that strays to cheap potato chips twice a month maybe. What is causing this pain? I only take (0.6) mg of colchicine the past few days and only taking one pill a day doesnt normally cause me this much discomfort. I have the "dull tooth ache" feeling in my back with throbbing teste.

Kidney stone or what?
God Alan, ACAI berry is on the avoids for gout.

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Kidney stones symptoms occur 12% men and 5% women by age 70, and is increasing. If travels down the ureter to the bladder is very painful: renal colic means writhing around from the pain flank to the inguinal region. Blood is usually seen in the urine. Some other symptoms can include abdominal pain, nausea, testicle or penis pain, trouble peeing, or urgency to urinate. Pain 20-60 minutes as the stone moves, so waxes and wanes. Can take a month before urinating out the stone. 80% stones are calcium based: calcium oxalate mostly and some are calcium phosphate. Other types of stones include uric acid, struvite (Mg ammonium phosphate), and cystine. Peeing out gravel like material usually uric acid. Risk factors: dehydration (including marathon runners), high blood calcium, high oxalate usually from low calcium diet or eating high oxalate, low citrate, high urine ph, high animal protein, high sodium, high sucrose, high vitamin C. Gout, diabetes, obesity, hyperparathyroidism. Male, White. Family history. Previous ureter stone. Frequent kidney infections. Hypertension.

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I don’t have gout but I went to a follow-up with my urologist after passing a Kidney stone and my urine test came back with very high Uric acid. I was advised to cut back my protien intake and I did research and asked my doctor again who stated that a deit for Gout would be ideal. Only problem is this seems very overwhelming to me without guidance. My question is this and please be specific. I need some good reliable resources for Gout diets. Preferably, good cookbook recommendations, helpful books, menu plans, or websites? I have only found lists of foods I shouldn’t eat but that doesn’t help me to devise a healthy and balanced diet.

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