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I had my first kidney stone at 18. Mine was made of calcium. My doctor asked how often I drank energy drinks and how much spinach I ate. I said a lot of both and he said pump the breaks. I stopped with the Rockstars but kept the spinach because it was obviously the energy drinks because they're so bad for you. Four years later I'm getting surgery for my third stone. Guess who doesn't eat spinach (or Tums) now?
Not medical advice. There's a variety of stone types and innumerable causes that are poorly understood. Comics and memes are also not medical advice.
Could it have also been the Tums? Those aren't something you should be regularly ingesting.
Hmm, I suspected. That's why I said I mostly stopped using them. I started taking Nexium everyday and I usually never have to.
Just had my 3rd surgery too a few weeks ago. I don't eat spinach but I drink a shit load of milk. They're going to do a metabolic workup on me to try and get some answers.
They captured the stone?
No they lasered it into pieces and removed it. The metabolic workup is going to be a week long urine capture, diet log, and I'm sure a few other things.
Yeah, that's what happened to me the 2nd stone. 3rd one they ultrasounded it and netted it.
I know your pain, man. 😢
I have never heard spinach attributed to kidney stones before. Is it true?
Calcium means the stones are calcium oxalate which comes from having too much oxalates in your diet
I get recurring kidney stones which are from oxalates and sodium
I keep my oxalate intake per day under 40mg
Spinach has 755 mg per HALF CUP!
Fuck spinach
Noooo it's yummy