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I just had the wonderfully painful experience of kidney stones. They went

in with a basket and took them out and I got to stay overnight in the

hospital to boot!

Thanks for letting me get the whine out first.

The urologist just removed the stint today and in about 2 weeks he is going

to have me do a 24 hour urine collection. When I told him that I take

calcium he told me that I could continue for now, but that more than likely

the 24 hour urine collection will come back with too much calcium. If that

is the case then he said I have to stop taking calcium.

I've just got to find the research on this, because I thought that if the

calcium was showing up in your urine, then there was a problem with your

body stealing calcium and you should take more? Maybe I have that confused

with blood levels (good thing I'm not a doctor!)

Also, he had me go through about a 2 hour x-ray shoot, as I have so many

calcium deposits on my bones that it was hard for him to see exactly where

the stones were stuck. So maybe I have too much calcium and he is right?

I trust the doctor, I am just concerned about the no calcium thing. If I

don't take calcium I get nightly leg/feet cramps that are horrid. My last

dexa scan had me at 118% bone mass for an 18 year old female (I'm 42).

Joanie

Lap RNY 08/13/02

284/152

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