Lex are you sure zero carb is the cause or is it that zero carb helps them dissolve enough so they can travel and cause pain?
Could kidney stones be caused buy not getting enough sun and your recent regime of sun exposure has dissolved the stones and dislodged them?
There is much evidence that zero carb (ketogenic diets) can be the cause of kidney stones and are not their cure. Children with epilepsy are often put on ketogenic diets and they develop kidney stones at a much greater rate than those who eat enough carbs to remain out of ketosis. I doubt that sun exposure has much to do with it but of course I don't really know. Since there was no lab work done to check for stones before I started this dietary adventure, we have no baseline to compare with. One thing that is common to my case as well as many others, is that I wasn't drinking a lot of fluids so urine output was low and the specific gravity of the urine was high. This is also the case with those on a ketogenic diet for epilepsy, their fluid intake is low as well so this may be the real key.
Dexter sent me an emial with an article stating that children on a ketogenic diet for epilepsy were having great success by adding potassium citrate to every meal. This seems to keep the stones from forming. What the mechanism is I have no idea as the article didn't say.
PS They sound absolutely horrific, supposedly child birth is a picnic compared
The pain is unbelievable. What makes it so bad is that it is relentless. It goes on for hours at a time with no let up, and the pain is so intense that even morphine just dulls the pain and makes it tollerable.
Lex
