He had his kidney removed 8 years ago, he had RCC stage 2. He had follow ups that were all clean. Last year he had his prostate removed too. And a month ago, we found the recurency in his column and in his lungs. He is 69 years old.
I am his son, and had my kydney removed last year with a RCC stage 1, I´ve had 2 ct scan since, and all are clean.

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I have a 9 year old brown tabby cat. We adopted him from the shelter when he was 2 and have had him for 7 years.

During the first week he was with us he had a seizure and so we rushed him to the vet and they told us he could possibly have epilepsy. They ran tests but they couldn’t find anything concrete. These past 7 years, he’s had seizures at random, sometimes 2 or 3 in a year. We went to many different vets seeking different opinions but they all told us the same thing, they didn’t know what was causing the seizures.

He resulted with kidney stones, about 2 years ago, which we treated and he’s been on medicated dry food ever since.

Now, he’s recently developed diabetes, and the cost to treat him is very expensive. I also feel that if i tried treating him, he’d be in pain and stress anyway. Injecting the insulin every 12 hours, taking him to weekly visits to the vet for check ups, other treatment, etc. would be a lot for him.

He’s already lost a lot of weight, even though he eats and eats, and drinks a lot more water than usual. We’ve changed his diet to a low carb, high protein but it doesn’t seem to help. He’s shedding way more and seems unhappy.

What makes it worse is that i that he’s barely 9 years old, but i don’t want him suffering.

Would the best thing be to put him to sleep?

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After running or walking up a few flights of stairs i get a pain (hurts to breathe in a lot or out a lot) under my left rib, its somewhat near the kidney area but i’m not sure if it is the kidney. This only happens when i run or walk a lot, i can do pushups/sit-ups fine, but can’t run. I’m 16 so i know i shouldn’t be having this pain.

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This is what I’m thinking: I know you can run vinegar through the coffee maker and it will break up all the junk. Someone told me kidney stones are just calcium build-ups. If this is true, do you think the vinegar in pickle juice will have the same effect on my guts?

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My boyfriend has a kidney stone at the moment. He recently had an operation to remove a stone from his bladder and a stone from his kidney. They got the bladder stone but they couldn’t find the kidney stone.
About 20 weeks ago when he was first diagnosed he was told the kidney stone was 8mm, now apparently it’s 7mm.
Though i’m not ready to trust the hospital since the whole 20 week thing has been nothing but a series of massive cock ups on their end. They didn’t even give him diet advice.
So, what i would like to know is…
Is it possible for a kidney stone to shrink?
What can he do to break the stone down?
What can he do to avoid more stones? This is his 3rd stone.

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