Guest guest Posted March 28, 2005 Report Share Posted March 28, 2005 My SIL has a kidney stone that conventional methods have not been successful at eliminating. She developed sever pain in the area of her kidney a month or so ago and it was diagnosed as likely to be a kidney stone. Unfortunately she does not have health insurance. She was treated in the ER initially, then she was taken to a specialist who tried to break up the stone with ultrasound, I believe it was. It didn't work. So her dr. pushed the stone up deeper into her kidney where it wouldn't cause such acute pain. Then another specialist reached up through her urethra to pull it out but he couldn't get to it because it was too deep into the kidney. I may be remembering the chronology wrong here, but the gist is that ultrasound and removal through the urethra did not work. The bills for all this are probably going to be much more than my brother and SIL can afford. She hasn't been able to work due to the stone and my brother is a lobsterman and there haven't been enough decent weather days for him to fish much this winter so these sick care bills are really going to damage them. That's why I suggested they check into natural flushes since nothing else is working and since it's much cheaper than what they've BEEN doing. SIL had a similar problem last year, but it went away without treatment and only returned now. I'm quite sure I suggested then that she do a flush program and suggested she eat low oxalate foods. My brother says they *have* been eating fairly low oxalate, but I'm not sure if he knows exactly which foods contain oxalates so it's possible that she's not really on a low oxalate diet. Also, she is from the Philippines so I don't know if dietary changes might be the cause. She's only been here for about a year and a half, IIRC. BUT, this stone she has now she got right after returning from a two-week trip to the Philippines. They do not know what *type* of stone it is. Has anyone here done a successful kidney flush that eliminated stones? If so, which program? And how did you know the stone was gone? TIA :-) Suze Fisher Lapdog Design, Inc. Web Design & Development http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3shjg Weston A. Price Foundation Chapter Leader, Mid Coast Maine http://www.westonaprice.org ---------------------------- " The diet-heart idea (the idea that saturated fats and cholesterol cause heart disease) is the greatest scientific deception of our times. " -- Mann, MD, former Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee; heart disease researcher. The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics <http://www.thincs.org> ---------------------------- > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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