Hi! I'm 10 weeks post op down 54lbs! Everything has been going great so far until Tuesday...i took a nap during that hour i woke up needing to pee so bad i thought I'd pee my pants lol did my business then 10 min later the feeling came back and i mean like you gotta pee so bad like the urgency is real it happened like that two more times in that hour n a half then went away later that day i went potty and noticed my urine looked brown the next time i caught it in a plastic cup and it was really dark, i went to the ER they checkedmy urineand it didn't sore any signs of a. UTI they told me it could be too early to detect or it could be that i passed a stone or have one that made a lesion in my bladder. Also quick note a few days prior to this I did have on and off sharp pains near my kidneys but nothing excruciating and yesterday a few jabs here and there. Anyway still have blood in my urine so I'm off to my docs today to hopefully figure it out. Are stones common after surgery? Anyone else have issues with them?

Kidney stones are common if you don't get enough fluids. Have you been doing ok with that? Otherwise, good luck, I hope the doc can help you out.

Yes, stones are VERY common after surgery...even for people who drink enough.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5361755/

Stuff you can do that might help prevent them:

Lower fat diet

Lower oxalate diet

Take your calcium CITRATE as prescribed

Vitamin B6

Probiotics

Low salt diet

More plant protein, less animal protein (nuts are a bad idea cause they're high oxalate)

Drink lots of water

Pull your protein back to 60g per day....avoid massive protein intake

Avoid spinach

Do not take over 500mg of Vitamin C

Edited June 22, 20188 yr by Creekimp13

Thanks everyone! Yes i drink more then enough water, i get all my protien and taking my vitamins i think i do need to up my plant type protien though. I miss salads but haven't dared to try lettuce yet. I don't do nuts yet and i hate salt i never add it to my foods and pay attention to sodium. It's not a UTI and they took blood test to check my kidney functioning they says it could be a very tiny stone enough to cause issued but not a lot of pain.

I went through a period of horrible kidney stones in my 20s (I'm 40 now) where I was passing at least two per month (hello medical bills). I later found out that it was due to a medication I was taking. All of the suggestions that @Creekimp13 made are right on point with what I was told by a nephrologist. One thing that could be helpful is to strain your urine (I know this sounds gross) and catch the stone when it passes. You can have it analyzed to see exactly what it's made of to determine a more customized dietary plan. The calcium citrate should help keep the oxalate from binding to the calcium.