Even if you have a kidney transplant, you are still risk of kidney stones.
Had them 4 times!!! First time I didn't know what was happening. Went to the Navy clinic (I'm USN Retired) on Friday night and the idiot doctor(?) told me I was constipated!!! Game me Milk of Magnesia and sent me home. Monday I'm back, seeing my normal doctor. He finds blood in my urine and sends me to the Naval Hospital for a CAT scan. Sure enough, a stone. Got some GOOD drugs and went home.
Following Friday, the rock is still there and the good drugs are gone!!! Back to the ER, oh that morphine is good!! Finally passed it after 10 days.
Second one lasted 5 days, third one I passed into the urine sample cup at the ER, and the last one I don't know where it went.
Calcium, that's what they said. Here's my theory.
I have GERD. The clinic kept changing their formulary and making me change my GERD meds. Every time that happened the new meds wouldn't work well for a couple of weeks. So I would supplement with Tums. Calcium rich Tums. A few months later, a stone.
You need calcium. What the Tums commercial doesn't tell you is that without VITAMIN D your body cannot assimilate the calcium. You just pee it out. Tums has no Vitamin D.
Had a cousin who got a stone in the 8th month of pregnancy. She had a lot of heartburn in the pregnancy, was eating Tums like candy.
Of all the antacids, only Gaviscon does not use calcium.
I’ve had a couple a year for several years now. Finally the docs figured out to check my parathyroid hormone levels. Way too high. The parathyroid is what controls how your body uses calcium, and I was even leeching the calcium out of my bones and into my kidneys due to the malfunctioning gland. I had it removed last December, and things have been good since.
Yes. Dilaudid is your friend.