Conflicting diets - low oxalate and low cholesterol

stumblinthrulife

Anyone else suffer kidney stones? I had two this year, and my urologist wants me to pursue a low oxalate diet.

Unfortunately my cholesterol and blood pressure are up, so my primary wants me on a low cholesterol and salt diet.

Problem is that this makes good healthy eating quite hard. Most of my favorite veggies are restricted on the low oxalate diet. The low cholesterol diet has also reduced my calcium intake making green leafies a must - but they are high in oxalate. My solution to date, supported by my primary physician, has been to mostly ignore the low oxalate diet, but keep on top of my fluid intake in the hopes of flushing my kidneys sufficiently so no stones form. The way I look at it, even if it doesn't work a kidney stone is a few days of pain, but heart disease is forever.

I guess I'll find out sometime in the year if it's worked, based on whether I end up rolling on the floor in agony again...

Firefox7275

Ask for a referral to a registered dietician.