Sometimes my faith in humanity is restored.

[George K]

D3 has a history of kidney stones. She's had 5 so far, until today, when #6 hit with a vengeance.

I told her to go to the ER, because urgent care would be worthless.

She did, and ended up in the waiting room.

And then this happened.

"Take her first."

My goodness...

Outcome:

They never, ever, stop being "your kids."

[Aqua Letifer]

...YIKES. I'm glad the worst seems to be over. Kidney stones are amazingly painful.

[Mik]

Man, your girls just can’t catch a break.

[jon-nyc]

Jesus H. What Mik said.

[Doctor Phibes]

Holy crap, that sounds awful. Hopefully the worse is over at this point.

[kluurs]

Man...thank heavens there are good people out there. Hope she's doing better now.

[George K]

Thanks, everyone.

She's fine.

The question is why she keeps making stones. I'm not sure if it's her level of hydration, her diet, or what.

After these episodes, I really think she needs to see someone who specializes in stones, and I've told her that.

[Jolly]

Isn't there a 24-hr urine test that can give some indications?

[brenda]

@George-K

Yes, there must be something that can help prevent this from happening. I hope she finds out what causes this. Miserable!

[Jolly]

@Jolly said in Sometimes my faith in humanity is restored.:

Isn't there a 24-hr urine test that can give some indications?

Y'all, I'm getting old and the mind ain't what it was. This is stuff that falls in place hours later, that I used to know of the top of my head... Litholink...

https://litholink.labcorp.com/testing/24-hour-urine-testing

[mark]

I read somewhere that drinking citrus juice daily, with Orange Juice being being the most effective, helps prevent stones?

[Klaus]

Kidney stones often have no definite, single cause, although several factors may increase your risk.

[a long list of risk factors that can be summarized as "being alive" follows]

Damn, that sounds like one of these conditions were it's very hard to ever pin down a cause.

[George K]

@mark said in Sometimes my faith in humanity is restored.:

I read somewhere that drinking citrus juice daily, with Orange Juice being being the most effective, helps prevent stones?

Acidificaion of the urine, like with cranberry juice, works.

There are reasons why D3 can't do that, however.

[taiwan_girl]

Wow! Glad it turned out okay, but defnitely something she (or you) does not want to go through again!!!