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What do you think caused your kidney stone?

Stone Fighter #F48373Aug 25, 2026👁️ 2.0k❤️ 187

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Did any of you figure it out—or at least have a guess?

Comments (39)

Stone Fighter #98F3B6May 7, 2026

Years and years and years of nothing but soda and sweet tea, never any water. I hated water as a kid.

Stone Fighter #8B892CMay 7, 2026

Not drinking enough water, tons of black tea, lots of spinach, protein shakes Now it's low oxalate foods, high calcium foods, water or coffee only, plus lemon water

Stone Fighter #05E835May 7, 2026

A two-month-long antibiotic-resistant UTI is the most likely cause, made worse by not drinking enough water (by urology's standards).

Stone Fighter #761060May 7, 2026

Primary hyperparathyroidism

Stone Fighter #2EEB2FMay 7, 2026

I have an overactive bladder, so drinking gives me a lot of anxiety—I definitely need to drink more.

Marvin1989May 7, 2026

I think it was the multivitamin with minerals I was taking. Looking back, I also wonder if the prenatal vitamins I took during pregnancy caused my constipation. When you’re pregnant, everything gets blamed on the pregnancy, so it never crossed my mind that the vitamin pills could be doing it.

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