Greetings! Nice of you to visit again.Kidney Stone: Uric Acid When you listen to anyone who has had a kidney stone or two you’ll be told in no uncertain terms of the extreme pain experienced, particularly when the body endeavour’s to expunge them naturally. This is an experience I remember well from a few years [...]

This post is somewhat off topic, having nothing to do with Prostate Cancer or Prostate Cancer Treatments. However, regular readers will recall that what I consider to be my main health concern of late – one that is above and beyond that of my aggressive prostate cancer – has been a large kidney stone. KIDNEY [...]

Now that was quite a basket full, wasn’t it? And I guess it begs the question. With that sort of history do you really think that I should worry much about prostate cancer? I rather think not. Moreover, excessively worrying about something invariably produces bad decisions and even worse outcomes. Gosh, I could even end [...]

As mentioned in my posts on the 15th and 16th July, my regular readers will know that apart from having an aggressive cancer of the prostate I have, in more recent months, also developed a rather large kidney stone – of the uric acid variety – in my one and only kidney. Cancer took the [...]

The upshot of all this then was as before, to continue with the watchful waiting; discontinue all but the minimal consumption of vitamin C and keep on taking the Allopurinol and Sodibic. I’ll have another review in November. That’s four months in which to assess the success or otherwise of the kidney stone treatment and [...]

Yesterday’s post dealt with my diet regimen and to some, I guess it might look a bit too extreme – and that I can understand – but not so extreme if you take it as a guide and not as something to be strictly adhered to. As I said “Be reasonable and be flexible”. Today [...]

Hi guys, Now here’s an interesting turn of events. My urologist phoned this morning to tell me that my kidney stone is most probably one comprised of uric acid – formed when there is too much acid in the urine – which accounts for it not being visualized on the X-ray film. Even better, I [...]

Well folks, today I write with mixed feelings. A couple of days ago I heard that a friend’s father had passed away following a long fight with brain cancer and an even tougher fight with the chemo and radiation treatments administered by his doctors. My friend is convinced it was the chemo and radiation that [...]