Just newly dx'ed with Lyme, have been on Doxy for 5 weeks now. Just had my first bout with kidney stones, and tests show kidneys are producing a hormone that increase's calcium, which in turn is producing kidney stones.

Urologist called yesterday with results and wants me to go to a kidney specialist. Getting worried here....can anybody help with some info, or with a similar experience?

She said "don't worry, your kidneys are'nt going to shut down or anything, but we do need to take care of this problem." I'm worried anyway!!!

My daughter has lyme.My daughter also has severe kidney damage ( due to a birth defect) whether it was caused by lyme, I doubt it.

BUt she has been plagued with UTI's and kidney infections for a VERY very long time, and has has NUMEROUS surgeries.

It was her pediatric urologist that cultured BB from the INSIDE of her bladder.

With treatment, she has had about only 3 UTI's . This is a child that had a chronic UTI since the day she was born and lived on antibiotics- too bad they were the wrong ones!

My daughter's kidneys never shut down, except once. ANd this is a child that has more plastic inside her than barbie and at one point, was on the transplant list. The only reason they did near fail was because an idiot doctor insisted on giving her morphine after a surgery.

Morphine= kidney problems= failure in kidney patients.

By the way- are you on a strict no yeast , no carb diet?

Your kidneys NEED carbs. There is alot of hype about "Don't even touch a piece of bread"

BULL. Otherwise, you go into ketosis.. and your body AND kidney's will feel it.

Eat some bread, drink some cranberry juice , and get everything checked out. Are you on abx yet? Zithromax was the only drug

that did my daughter's UTI's in.

They tried Cipro, Augmentin, Amoxicillin, Vancomycin, Macrodantin, Keflex, Bactrim ( allergic), you name it.. she had it.

ZIthro did the trick.

However I have never heard of kidney stones being an offshoot of lyme so I would definitely explore this with the kidney specialist if I were you. It is always possible you have more than one thing going on. It is too easy to ascribe everything to the lyme ...and it ain't always so...although many times it is!

2 yrs. ago now I was sent to a kidney specialist since my urine was showing "protein" in the urine and my treating MD couldn't figure out why.

I went & gave urine sample at spec. office.
"Why are you here...your urine is fine; no kidney problems."

He called my local clinic & person doing the urine test MESSED up royally. He explained to her how it was to be figured.

So it was a wasted trip, $$, etc.

But something is showing up now on urine labs. I was put on benicar 20 mg/day when my LLMD saw me 8-4. Regular dr. increased benicar to 40 mg/day when the urine sample was returned ABNORMAL.

He wrote rx for only 3 months worth of pills. I called requesting 12 month supply; 1 month at a time. NO, I must see him first & do blood tests also; scheduled next week.

Carol, deal only with FACTS now and don't let your memory imagine all this other baggage. Been there, done that.

But we need to stay on top of our testings done at regular time schedules too.

Also,about the low carb diet someone else asked about, no I'm not on a low carb diet, although I was following the South Beach diet for a few months last year. That is when I got the first kidney stone, so went off the diet. I have been drinking cranberry juice daily because of reoccuring urinary tract infections, that seems to help, also take cranberry capsules.

I am on Doxy, and have been on it for about 5 weeks now, and also on Cat's Claw.

God Bless, Carol