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hi fellow kidney stone survivor who also discovered they're a morphine non-responder :'D i also have the unique statistical blessing of not responding to codeine or hydrocodone.
we were destined to suffer.
i had a second kidney stone and learned that people who have had one are much more likely to have another within 10 years. [cries into my emotional support water bottle]
I had one every 3 years or so, progressively worse. Been 5 years since my last one after changing my lifestyle to drink more (so much more) water and stop taking Tums all the time.
Tums should be outlawed. The amount of damage those things do to stomach chemistry and excessive calcium uptake is crazy for something people eat like candy (and that they flavor like candy). They're like beating with a sledgehammer compared to a proton pump inhibitor.
I weaned myself off Tums and the instances of having to actually treat heartburn/gerd went down to a couple times a month at most.
I'm hoping that now, after 26 years, I'm in the clear! But as I already said, I know exactly where my kidney is, and if it makes a cramp I start sweating!
Wait that really is a thing? I broke my arm as a kid and I swore I remembered them giving me morphine and it didn't do anything. But I always thought I'd dreamed it up or something.