Natural Kidney Stone Remedies: Pain Relief & Prevention

Lemon Juice and Olive Oil

Posted by Robyn (Gilbert, AZ) on 05/30/2007
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This worked for me! I just had my first experience passing a kidney stone and hope I never have to do it again. I had a painful attack one Saturday that kept me on the couch all day. The painful symptoms came and went for almost a week until I decided to go to an Urgent Care facility the next Friday night. I was told I probably had a kidney stone or a bad kidney infection. I was given antibiotics and told to watch for stones to be expelled (gross). I read about using olive oil and lemon juice on this website. On Tuesday night I was desperate and decided to try it. I mixed 2 oz of olive oil and 2 oz of lemon juice at 8 pm on Tuesday. The following day at 1:30 I passed a stone. YEA!!!!!

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Posted by Marie (Lafayette, Indiana) on 05/27/2007
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I've had kidney stones before, and will probably continue to have them on and off the rest of my life (because I am /awesome/ like that). I'd never tried a remedy on my own before, because I'd always been on my parents insurance and could easily afford codeiene and a doctor's visit. I've been out of college for three years now, with no health insurance, and a kidney stone decides to rear its nasty head in my right kidney (as usual). I suffered it for a week and a half, through the initial agonizing aching and subsequent inability to urinate more than a tiny bit every 10 minutes or so. And I got fed up--I work two jobs and I can't afford to run to the loo when I need to, or stay home. So I messed around on google, and came across the lemon juice/olive oil treatment. I decided the ingridients were cheap enough to give it a go, and obviously not toxic. I upped the amount (2 oz each) recommended, because I wanted it GONE. Totally worked too. This morning, I peed like I'd never peed before and yah no more kidney stone. I think anyway, because I can't feel it anymore, there's no pressure in my tract, and I can pee uninhibited. A word of caution though--I had a hard time sleeping, and spent five hours thinking I was going to heave my guts up. But yes, thank you all who recommenended olive oil/lemon juice--I love you all!

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Posted by Amanda (St Louis, Missouri) on 05/23/2007
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THANK YOU SO MUCH for making this information available to me! I didn't really think it would work, but IT DOES!!!! It really does work! I drank the lemon juice and olive oil last night and the pain in my side was gone within about two hours...i've been peeing out 'sand' ever since...with NO PAIN!!!!! THANK YOU :)

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Posted by Paul (New York, New York) on 05/20/2007
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Olive Oil Lemon Juice Works for Stones: I will be brief. Had my first kidney stone a month or so ago. Blood in the urine. Went through medical channels, urologist, tests to confirm 8mm stone, and then finall lithotripsy. It worked enough that the stone was dissolved and pieces came out. Calcium oxalate stone. Afterwards, though, I wanted to urinate all the time and had a painful feeling at times in my urethra. Went back to urologist, got an xray, and it seemed as though there was a large fragment left in my ureter. He put me on Flomax for two weeks to relax my bladder. I still had the sensation of needing to urinate a lot, plus no stone had passed. I found this site and read about the olive oil and lemon juice. I tried a smaller dose two nights ago, but nothing. I am approaching another doctor visit, so last night I took more. I did not mix them together, either. I drank the olive oil which, if you get a good brand of extra virgin, can taste good, then the fresh juice of two lemons, then drank a quart of water. This morning, after walking the dog, I passed a large fragment, what I believe was the last fragment. I am normally dubious of many home cures. I believe in Western medicine, but I also believe in organic food, Eastern medicine and lots of other stuff. I'm not pre-disposed, in other words to automatically go for the herbal cure. And this could have been a coincidence, but I believe it is what finally worked here. I am grateful.

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Posted by Terri (Salt Lake City, Utah) on 05/18/2007
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Monday May 7th had the worse pain ever on my left side lower back. Having had a kidney stone before I knew exactly what the cause was. The pain subsided but returned on Wednesday May 9th with a trip to the ER. I was told yes I had a kidney stone, a 6mm one to be exact. I contacted my uriologist who immediately set up a surgery date for May 17th saying there was now way I would be passing this big a kidney stone. Being that I had already had this type of surgery before I certainly was not looking forward to it again! My grandmother suffers from kidney stones and gave the olive oil & lemon juice remedy. I took 2oz olive oil & the juice of a half of lemon drank that down followed by a 8oz glass of water with the other half of the lemon juice. That was on Thursday May 11th. During the following days I drank water with lots of lemon and then the afternoon before the scheduled surgery I was supposed to pick up my hospital packet and told the nurse I really think I passed the stone. They were hesitant but ordered another scan and were shocked to find out I had passed a 6mm stone on my own! I was overjoyed at not having to have surgery the next morning and swear the combination of olive oil and lemon juice is what did it!

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Posted by Allyson (North Pole, Alaska) on 05/17/2007
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IT really works. My husband had been suffering with a kidney stone for 3 weeks. 4 trips to the ER, many shots of morophine and oral pain killers still no relief or passing of the stone. I looked up home remedies online and thought we would give it a try. He did the 2 oz of Olive oil and 2 oz of Lemon Juice and chased it with 12 oz of water. He did this at 9 PM and by 11:30 AM he had passed the stone. WHEW!! We will definitely try this first IF it happens again.

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Posted by Aquiles (Dallas , Texas) on 05/16/2007
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The lemon juice and olive oil mix worked for me I had to take it twice because the first time I wasnt able to keep the mix down but when I did it fixed the problem overnight. Thank you.

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Posted by Heidi (Greenwood, Indiana) on 05/15/2007
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Oh, my Goodness. Who would have thought that the olive oil, lemon juice would have worked, but IT DID. I went through the horrible pain of passing a kidney stone 4 weeks ago. I was hospitalized for 4days because of an infection and high fever. My doctor put a stint in to help pass the stone, I had that for 3 weeks. Then because that did not work I had lithotripsy done( another stay in the hospital). I went back to my doctor because I had not passed the stone yet. He scheduled me for another proceedure because my stone had not moved at all, even after they had blasted it into pieces, so I started looking on the internet for anything that would help me pass this. I mixed the olive oit cocktail, drank the water and went to the bathroom and there were several pieces of stone!!!!!!!!!! Too bad I didn't know this before my 2 stays in the hospital.

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Posted by Cindy G. (SF Bay Area, California) on 05/05/2007
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UPDATE !! He first took the Oil/Lems Juice " concoction" Wednesday night followed with a huge glass of water. Thanksfully I think the pain meds he was on at the time kept him sleeping instead of feeling nauseated. Then, Thursday morning I gave him just the Lemon Juice.. about 4 ounces worth. I called him from work at 11 am and told me that he had passed one stone and felt another was getting ready to pass. By Thursday afternoon, he had passed it. Coincidence or not, I don't know.. but I will continue this for the next few weeks and see how it works. I am starting to believe. Psst.. by the way.. a lady I work with says that Olive Oil is a natural anti-inflammatory. Shes a health nut and is into all this health stuff. Idon't care what it is.. I just hope it continues to help my husband.

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Posted by Lori (Springfield, Missouri) on 05/04/2007
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I am so excited! For close to 2 weeks I have been suffering from horrible pain. I thought that I had a kidney infection. However, I began wondering if my symptoms could be kidney stones. I was in sooo much pain and I also had a constant urgency to urinate. I finally came across this wonderful site. My husband kindly ran to the store and got some fresh lemons and we juiced them and added the olive oil. (Both at 2 oz. each) I took the remedy this afternoon at 3:00 p.m. and only a little over 7 hours later, 10:45 p.m., I began passing some stones. What a RELIEF! It is a true answer to my prayers! Yeah! Now I can get back to life again. I would highly suggest that people suffering from kidney stones give this remedy a try. It was definitely worth it even though I didn't care for the mixture (I took it on an empty stomach). I did experience a little nausea because of this. Thanks again for the invaluable information!

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Posted by Cindy G. (SF Bay Area, California) on 05/03/2007
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I found this site by accident the other night. A co-worker had said when she lived in Germany years ago, her Uncle was told to drink Olive Oil for Kidney Stones. I searched on the internet for " olive oil and kidney stones." Then I found your site.

Background : My 39 yr old husband has been passing kidney stones since he was 18. The last 3 years they have gotten worse ( we think because of stress.) He is on morphine and nortriptyline ( Sp ? ) to help with his pain. His Urologist is at a loss as to why he forms so many so fast. Last year, he had 20 kidney stones in one kidney alone !! He's had the Lithotripsy, the Laser treatment which goes up you know where to blast a 12 mm stone. He's seen a dietician, urologist, endocrinologist... all with no answer except " drink more water and take pain meds." He drinks water ( prolly 1-2 liters per day) but that doesn't seem to be enough to help. We were desperate. I just mixed up the " concoction " as I call it and we are hoping for the best. We will let you all know if he gets any relief from this in the next few days. I am interested to know if any of you have gotten to the point where you are taking Morphine for the pain. Hubby has Calium Oxylate and Uric Acid stones. Tried Uriflow about a year ago.. he seemed to pass them more frequently. Please pray for him as this has been affecting us, our marriage, our life for years. I just want my husband back.

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Posted by Oona (Manila, Philippines) on 05/02/2007
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hi there! I was found out to have a kidney stone in my right kidney October of 2006. I had a severe UTI then that my OB decided that I should have KUB ultrasound. I was found out to have a 5.4 mm stone. I decided to have a check up with the urologist and he gave me a medicine. After a month of medication it became smaller to 4.2 mm and the doctor gave me additional medicine to be taken for another month. Fortunately the stone became smaller to 3.8 mm. But after the last month of medication, the stone remains at 3.8 mm. The doctor did not give me medicine anymore because he said he already gave me all the possible medicine that can dissolve my stone and he recommended lithotripsy. I told him that I will think about it since I could not afford the treatment. I decided to search the internet for possible natural remedy and thank god that I found this website. April 25 at 9:00 pm I drank the cocktail of 2 0z of lemon juice and 2 oz olive oil. I waited for the stone but I found nothing in my urine. Next I drank the cocktail friday, april 27. But still no stone was found. May 1 I had an appointment with a nephrologist and before that he requested me for a urinalysis. When I went to a laboratory for the urine test, I found out in the cup where I urinated that there are small white particles. I suspect those are the stones. Actually I feel better and I could not wait to have an ultrasound to see if my stone is gone already. I still want to drink another coctail to make sure that my stone is totaly gone. Just a warning to those who wanted to try lemon juice with other oil. Please never combine it with other oil. I tried it with virgin coconut oil and I had severe stomach ache and loss bowel movement. But anyway again I'm thankful for this website because I will not spend money for medicine anymore.

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Posted by Chris (Sequim, WA) on 05/01/2007
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It is May 1st. Last week was hard (read my post from then, April twenty-something). I kept take the suggested 2 oz. olive oil witht he 2 oz. lemon juice every couple of day because I kept getting achy in my left kidney. Stones kept coming, 2 Monday, 2 Friday and 2 Saturday and 1 Sunday.

Today is Tuesday, May 1st. I was fine yesterday, but very early in the morning (around 2 am), I was very restless and the aching was returning. GROAN! By 7 am I was suffering again but had already downed my oilive oil and lemon juice at 6 am. The pain was much more tolerable but still just could not sleep nor sit still.

Hot shower, pain pills.

I cannot tell you what happened because the mixture makes you have to stay home tethered to the bathroom. Good thing too!

But I passed an extremely large stone. I did not think that such a size was possible! Upon more reading, I learned that stones can become very very large! So I am somewhat grateful that I was actually able to pass this chunk!

I will be taking more of the olive oil and lemon juice this evening. I've been experiencing blood once in a while also and after this passage, some burning (as you can imagine). But my kidney 'still' feels achy and I'm wondering just how many stones are in there! ???

I highly recommend taking this, I really do. It is said to help with gallstones and liver problems as well.

One wonders 'why' the medical profession does not recommend this, especially since it is readily available for pennies and pure (well I just answered my own quiry, didn't I) ?

Anyways, I high recommend this as a course of action upon first signs of achiness in the kidney region that seems to start intensifying.

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Posted by Paul (Milledgeville, GA) on 04/30/2007
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Lemon Juice & Olive Oil Remedy works! on Saturday 4/21 I awoke at about 3a.m. with the lower back pain from hell. Left kidney felt like an ice pick being jabbed in and out. Popped a pain pill I had and endured the pain until about 9 a.m. when it subsided. The rest of the weekend and the following week I had pain in my groin area from time to time. Nothing like the kidney pain so it was tolerable. Still hadn't passed the stone though. I had been online and ordered a product that I had found . It's called Uriflow , it's expensive but when you're in pain you'll try anything right ? Well after doing that I found this webpage and read the remedy recipe. Sounded too easy and too good to be true but guess what, it TOTALLY WORKED!. Friday 4/27 I read this page and bought the ingrediants on the way home and took it at 7 pm along with about 2 bottles of water. Around 9:30 PM I had the urge to urinate really bad and Bam! out popped a 6 or 7 mm sized stone. Whew what a releif. I suggest to anyone with a stone to give this a try. It's basic ingredients you can buy at the grocery store , what do you have to lose, except a kidney stone.

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Posted by Chris (Sequim, WA) on 04/24/2007
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I would like to give a synopsis of my very recent hideously painful bout with kidney stones. This started at noontime on Thursday, April 19th and escalated very quickly, just like the last bout.

4-1/2 years ago I experienced an attack while on vacation, coming on at 3 am in a motel. My husband finally had to insist I go to Emergency because he was afraid someone would think he was murdering me.

The morphin took the severest edge of this pain off but I could still feel pain, and it was shown that the stones were there but thankfully on the move, so after 4 hours in Emergency (and a whopping $2600 bill! later), I was released to wait for the passage.

About 2 hours later, 2 pretty large stones passed and instant relief -- although I was extremely tired for 2 days and we had a long ride from the Canadian border to reach our home in San Diego.

These were manufactured in my right kidney.

Last Thursday (4-1/2 years later) an attack in my left kidney started with great intensity. I opted to ride it out at home although I was literally screaming on and off for 2-1/2 days.

My friends thought I was daft not to go to Emergency but we just made changes to my insurance last month to cut back on the large increase in cost and the deductibles, etc. would pretty much negate an Emergency bill being covered. I just did not want another huge bill as I am starting a new business and ran credit up to purchase supplies!

Many are writing about not caring for the taste of the 2 oz. olive oil with 2 oz. of freshly squeezed lemon juice. For an Italian, this is very similar to an easy fresh salad dressing. My problem was that I had severe lower stomach problems (a delicate way of saying I had been drastically and totally cleaned out on Thursday which is very common during an attack). I could not even drink half a glass of water! The vomiting too was horribly intense for a day and a half!

What to do? (Severe chills and high fever accompanied my pain also.)

If you have a friend who is in the medical profession, ask for a suppository that relieves the nausea. My girlfriend is a surgical nurse and she supplied this for me. This worked so well.

I just 'could not' get into any vehicle to get to a doctor's office. This was the worst pain I have ever experienced and I was very very fatigued and getting dizzy and dehydrated.

Another thing that helped me: Perhaps it was because I 'needed' water so badly . . . I am not certain. But I just had to get in the shower! Normally I do not care for very hot showers but the hot water pounding on my back and kidney and tummy gave me temporary relief.

So I started to think: Heat 'expands' . . . Perhaps a little expansion could occur allowing better passage for the stones?

I followed with very hot soaks in the tub. Friday I took 4 hot long long soaks and 12 showers (if you can believe this). (Well at least I would be squeeky clean, if I had to go to the hospital afterall!)

Upon drying, I used a heating pad to my kidney immediately and after I had no more nausea, could keep pain pills down, so I sipped water constantly laying on my 'good' side in bed and finally sleeping in 1-hour stints.

But every hour it would flare up again, sending me in dances throughout the house almost turning myself inside out trying to escape the pain. And I applaud my husband who was so supportive and never complained about having to sleep in the recliner! nor continually have to listen to me crying out.

My husband went on line and found that 'distilled water'is the best to drink at this time. So I did.

I could only tolerate little little bits of banana or crackers and a tiny bit of milk to try to soothe my stomach.

Then slices of pears seemed easy to take.

It was also noted to take large quantities of Vitamin C downed with water to help break up the stones.

By Sunday the pain started moving into my bladder region and it was bad too.

It took 4-1/2 days to pass two rather large stones, every bit as large as the ones I passed 4 years ago. First one and an hour later, the other. They were pretty rough surfaced and a bit jagged-edged. UGH!

But afterwards I told my husband to get the lemons for me and last night I did drink the mixture. I felt no adversion taste-wise because I'm used to this mix anyways and like it.

However, I did experience within about 20 minutes a burning in my left kidney. I was so afraid that pain would start again. The burning lasted about the 2 hours until bedtime and as a precautionary, I took 2 over-the-counter pain tablets.

My feeling is that because of the jaggedness of the stones I was trying to pass, that perhaps the acidity of the lemons may have just caused a bit of the burning. I'm sure there was tenderness (or more) where these stones had been stuck and trying to pass through as some report blood in their urine. It was not bad by any means.

My feeling is that this concoction WILL work "IF" you can actually swallow and keep ANYTHING down at the time you are agonizing and writhing in pain and so nauseated.

Do not wait until you get there (again). I say 'again' for kidney stones usually reappear every few years (OH GOODY!)

I plan on drinking this mixture every month to try to ward off another attack!

I also recommend that anyone prone to these stones revamp their diet. I had totally changed the way I was eating back in October to try to alleviate health problems down the road, but evidently eating too much spinach (my favorite in salads) is not great either.

I also love coffee but had obediently cut back to a cup and a half daily but unbeknownst to me, mistakening thought 4 cups of tea a day was fine. Evidently not, according to yesterday's research. I also cut out desserts except for my 3 pieces of very dark chocolates which I daily consumed.

Seems too little, too late. Also I hardly ever eat red meat (at least not more than once a week and the portion is small).

Evidently these stones were years in the making. I have also been a very heavy milk drinker since childhood and even though I had cut back to 0% fat and to only 3 cups a day, I may cut this back to one a day and supplement with calcium pills since I am 56 now and need calcium.

I also noted that Magnesium is very important.

I will most likely continue drinking at least half my water allotment from distilled water. Seems that the minerals in tap water are not good for those prone to kidney stones. However, I feel we do need minerals to an extent, so will do a half and half and try to keep my intake to 64 to 72 oz. daily.

I do not like extremes of any kind and am leary of believing everything published.

I am pulling lists of foods to cut down on but I plan to make a little schedule for the lemon juice and olive oil.

I heard that over in the 'old country' (Italy) that this is a 'tried and true' remedy. So this is not really anything 'new'.

By the way, I feel just fine this morning! The only thing is that it may take a few more days to get my strength back from this ordeal because it felt as if a bulldozer kept running over me.

I am buying decaf coffee beans today also.

If you feel an attack coming on, I highly advise the drinking of the lemon juice with the olive oil RIGHT AWAY. Why wait? I will never wait until I get that nausea and CAN'T keep anything down again.

Better yet, do it monthly.