Vicki

[Guest guest]

Wow! I'm curious...how much protein do you get on a day like that?

Jolene in Bakersfield

>

> Here is what I usually eat. I have to have some fat in my diet or

the scale wont move. For breakfast, I eat Kashi 7 grain cereal with

splenda on it. For lunch, usually a lean cuisine. PB sandwich during

the day or 100 cal popcorn. I also love sugar free popsicles. My

addiction lately is pineapple.........lol. For dinner, its usually

fish or something like that. I love lean cuisines so we eat alot of

them. They are very comparable to the Craig meals and we get the

low card/ low sodium ones. I eat a lot during the day- but I work out

6 days a week also

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> Vicki

[Guest guest]

Pat,

Tea and a number of other foods and drinks contain oxcylic acid. Our

bodies have no use for it but it binds with calcium to form

calcium-oxcelate. If that happens in the digestive tract, the compund

passes normally. However, if the binding occures in the kidney, we end up

with kidney stomes. At least that's the simplistic was it was explained to

me some time back.

Like you, I drank a lot of tea (Sobe Lean Green) this past summer and I've

been paying for it ever since. My PCP says my ct scan doesn't show one or

two kidney stones but, " a whole gravel pit. " Most are very small and pass

without any problems. Then there are the few monsters. Let's just say I

now have some idea what ladies go through in childbirth, especially

back-labor. :-)) I have so many stones that I'm being referred to a

urologist to see what can be done to control them. (Yeah, Right. Another

doc with limited knowledge of the DS I'll have to help educate. Oh, well..

Comes with the territory.)

And don't even get me started on mail-order pharmicies who don't know squat

about the ds, but talk the PCP's in to changing dosage on prescriptions

based on " manufacturer recommmendations " rather than patient needs. Had a

go-around with one of them this morning. My PCP isn't going to be too

happy with the DS-101 class he's going to get on Friday. GRRRRRRR

Jerry

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>I do know that when I had the attack Dee called

>me back and said that I had calcuim in my kidney

>so therefore that is what my stone is made of anyway

>that's my thinking. I do drink a lot of tea, that

>and water is my main liquids.Who knows how I got it,

>guess I was just one of the luckly ones...LOL

[Guest guest]

Vicki, I think if my insurance would no longer cover Dr. K or Z I would at

least have the othe doctor confer with them about what needed to be done. Dr. K

has guided more than one other on the care of hi patient when they were out

of state I remember reading. I know he would help in any way he could. He

understand when our insurance won't cover him, and he or Dee will do all they

can to get you covered by him, sometimes they have to fight for you, but just

let him guide someone else at least. You wouldn't believe, looking at my

stomach right at this moment that in the middle of Nov. I had a hole big enough

for Dr. K's Armentian head to go in there. Now it is all healed across there.

I do have a little healing to do on the inside yet, but from the outside it

is all closed. I was a mess, and way down. He took care of me. I was one of

his " unusual " cases. He has his share of us, and he handles us. I am sure he

would do all he could for you, out of state, in state, because of insurance or

whatever. He really does care about us, I do believe that.

Pearl

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