Tex, count me among your 'well wishers'. I hope this resolves quickly.
Carol
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Tex:tex wrote: To cut to the chase, the problem turned out to be a kidney stone. I'm not aware of anyone in my family who has ever had a kidney stone problem. I don't eat any high-oxalate content vegetables (because of the ileostomy), and the only calcium supplement is in a multivitamin, so what caused the stone? Luckily it's only about 2 mm in diameter, so passing it shouldn't be a big deal, but I'm puzzled about why it formed in the first place. I use a lot of almond milk, and the Silk Almond Milk seems relatively thick, so I'm wondering if that could be the problem.
Tex
Two often unrecognized causes of kidney stone formation, particularly calcium oxalate stones, are deficiencies in vitamin B6 and magnesium. Pyridoxine deficiency is a known cause of kidney stones and used to be listed as such in medical textbooks until recently. (Nutrition as been de-emphasized in medical textbooks in recent years.
)Magnesium is sorely deficient in the Standard American Diet and even more so in IBD. Magnesium is required in more than 300 biochemical reactions in the body. Vitamin B6 is its partner in many of these reactions. Magnesium is also required for bone formation. If one is magnesium deficient, calcium will preciptiate out of bone (and other places in the body) and end up in places it doesn't belong, like in arteriosclerotic plaque or in the urine, forming kidney stones.
Hope this helps!
Dr. Ann
Hi Ann,
Thanks, but I have been taking a 400 mg magnesium citrate tablet (or an equivalent) and Metanx (3 mg L-methylfolate Calcium, 35 mg Pyridoxal 5?-phosphate, 2 mg Methylcobalamin) for years, plus a multivitamin. That's why I'm puzzled.
That's an excellent point about nutrition being de-emphasized in medical textbooks over the years. Big pharma apparently has very long tentacles, and they get into almost everything.
Tex
Thanks, but I have been taking a 400 mg magnesium citrate tablet (or an equivalent) and Metanx (3 mg L-methylfolate Calcium, 35 mg Pyridoxal 5?-phosphate, 2 mg Methylcobalamin) for years, plus a multivitamin. That's why I'm puzzled.
That's an excellent point about nutrition being de-emphasized in medical textbooks over the years. Big pharma apparently has very long tentacles, and they get into almost everything.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.