"Citrate," he says. "Not enough citrate."

Thanks, Chad.

Cutting out oxalates is my LAST choice.  I mean, there goes all of the nuts and nut butters and other good stuff.

I nibble on chewable calcium all day...none in the early morning, because i don't eat many oxalates in the am.  But if I sudenly need some peanut butter on a slice of bread...or a snack pack thing of nuts...that's when I take the calcium. 

However, my current uro just gestures that this is all irrelevant compared to the citrate, so there you go.

My understanding is that the fat that we also didn't absorb binds with the calcium somehow and takes the calcium out with it, thus leaving behind the oxalates. The oxalates are then absorbed and head for the kidneys.

Perhaps there is preferential binding of calcium by fat, i.e. that calcium binds more easily to fat than to oxalate? Or maybe it's just that there is so much nonabsorbed fat that the oxalates can't get their tiny little hands on the calcium? This I don't know.

Did that help at all?

 

Larra

Yes.  It reminded me that I should have taken SOME life science classes when they were available for free.  j/k   

Instead, there I was, blowing up the chem lab with zinc, magnesium and the bunsen burner.  But you just can't have that kind of fun in a biology class, now can you?

Thank you.

Well, dammit. I was hoping you'd have better news. Hope this adding of Citrate works.

Crap Sue. This is awful. I hope the Citrate supplements help. 

Hmm, well what can we eat that has a lot of "citrate" in it? I always associate citrate with ascorbic acid; don't know why, but I do.

Kerry

Lemon juice is best. I drink gallons of water a day with sweetener and real lemon juice.

I'm in Sues position, and I think it may be helping.

Hmm, well I eat / drink 2 - 4 limes every day. I juice a whole lime in my Diet Coke or Pepsi and usually drink 3 or 4 a day.

I don't know if it's enough to be helpful, but how about adding lemon juice to your water? I read here that citrates occur naturally in fruit juices and they recommend adding 4 oz. of lemon juice to 2 liters of water.

Now Sue, just how to you know that maggots like those citrate suplements? Did you do a survey? Was there a random sample of maggots?

All kidding aside, I'm sorry you are still going through all this and that it's so difficult. I look forward to further updates and will be sorely disappointed if there is no snarkiness. It's one of your finer qualities.

Larra