Sounds like you folks may have medullary sponge kidneys which is a disease which affect the renal tubuals. They remain dialated so paticulates like calcium and oxylates are moe likely to forma sludge and stones, so diuretics and allopuinol are ordered to increase flow. It is a good idea to increase fluids to to liters daily and adding lemon to your water is recommended. If your stones pass you may find that you may get urinary tract infections too. It is also a good idea to rule out trouble with your parathyroid causing increased urinary calcium levels. It is not ususally expected that people will decrease dietary calcium, but supplementation is not a good idea. There are foods high in oxylates that may me avoided too which may be googled. Not all docs are familiar with these things. My kids are also stone formers and had their first episodes in middle school. When You are a woman and you have a kidney stone stuck at that junction right between your bladder and your ureter you may not know whether it is your appendix, an ecctopic, an ovarian cyst, or a stone, with boys you have a smaller differential diagosis list especially if you know that this can run in your family.

You can have the stones tested to find out what kind they are. I have 2 different types. Calcium (most cimmon) and uric acid. I'm taking a pill to keep my uric acid down.

You poor thing! I recently suffered through my first ever episode of kidney stone, wound up in ER, was told stone to big to pass, had lithotripsy, spent the last two and a half weeks passing stone fragments and in intense pain. I can't imagine going through this more than once.

All those dark leafy green kale, spinach, beets, almost all vegetables, all nuts and peanuts, legumes and beans, no wheat, soy, or shellfish. Limited white bread, white rice, no potatoes. Whole fats, no margarines. I am also dealing with type 2 diabetes at the same time and with several orthopedic injuries that didn't heal right makes life interest-ing. Luckily the VA has provided me with a 💺 and the lift to haul it around.

Yes ma’am. Constantly have kidney stones since 1998. Many surgeries and also had a massive stag horn that engulfed my kidney, chronic pylenephritis and continued hell. Doctor doesn’t know why I’m always having stones. One more issue to deal with. You’re not alone xo