Tom Conklin
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- Frances (2016)
Porto (Fall 2017)
Via (2022)
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Maybe slightly related? I’m following the Global Solo Challenge which is an around the world nonstop solo sailing race. Two of the 15 (I think?) competitors have passed kidney stones during the race. Ugh, can you imagine?! Anyway I’m guessing these sailors could be prone to dehydration too but also wondering if physical stress could be a factor? Maybe lack of sleep?
Maybe, there’s not a lot of drinkable water in the oceans. In a couple of Sahel trips we were limited to 3 litres per day for all purposes. Our Bedu guides could do it with apparent ease, we struggled.Maybe slightly related? I’m following the Global Solo Challenge which is an around the world nonstop solo sailing race. Two of the 15 (I think?) competitors have passed kidney stones during the race. Ugh, can you imagine?! Anyway I’m guessing these sailors could be prone to dehydration too but also wondering if physical stress could be a factor? Maybe lack of sleep?
Yes, please leave Orujo to the professionals.Maybe, there’s not a lot of drinkable water in the oceans....
Regular readers of these columns will know that I can complete a Camino on one daily shot of Orujo but the rest of you are advised to drink water
I had a stone once, after geting dehydrated in southern France. Drink plenty. If your urine is anything other than a pale yellow you are not drinking enough, Did your consult include blood tests for the (rare) abnormalities that might make you prone to stone formation?I can't remember seeing this before so here goes. After my 2017 Camino Portuguese my wife came over from Canada and we travelled in Spain for a while. At a roundabout in Cordoba I was forced to pull over in my rental car and dry heave due to some very serious pain. This was not my first experience with kidney stones so I knew what was coming. Luckily we managed to complete our trip with no serious incident (and a lot of water) but six hours after landing home in Ottawa I was in emergency. In the ER shortly after landing they filled me up with three litres of saline so I was clearly very dehydrated. I also discovered that I actually had two stones making their way through very narrow passages. One passed quite quickly but the other took much medication and three procedures to vacate the premises. But I digress.
On all of my Caminos, one before and two after the Portuguese, I have not felt the urge to drink except on very hot days. I made sure to irrigate on my Via in 2017 and had no issues. After my most recent trip through northern Spain I made sure to stay hydrated through the first hot days on the Norte but I kind of lost my rhythm in the last couple of cooler and rainy weeks of the Primitivo. On the bus from Santiago to Madrid I felt the early stirrings of stones and passed out when we stopped in Lugo but the searing pain passed and I continue on to Madrid. I visited the ER in Madrid, was given some meds and have had no real stirrings since. Having said that, I have had an ultrasound and consultation since and I have been gifted once again with a stone in each kidney.
My point here is not to share my unfortunate medical history but to wonder if anyone else has dealt with dehydration and stones. I know everyone says the Camino provides and all, but this I was not expecting.
I had a stone once, after geting dehydrated in southern France. Drink plenty. If your urine is anything other than a pale yellow you are not drinking enough, Did your consult include blood tests for the (rare) abnormalities that might make you prone to stone formation?
I, too, had an incident while walking the Camino Frances a few years ago. I do not like water. Never have and I do believe it had a lot to do with the attack I had in the middle of the night. The EM's who spoke only Spanish told me it was a gall bladder attack. Medicine was given to me, and I continued to walk for another 4 or 5 days until I realized I need to go home before I have another attack. At home, I was referred to a Urologist and determined I had two large stones that would not pass. Surgery followed and conversations around my drinking habits was a big part of them. I try each day to drink a 28 oz. of water daily. I know it is not enough, but it is 28 oz that I never drank before. I have not had any more stone attacks and I do have a yearly checkup with my Dr.
had a kidney stone on the camino. It was awful. I had just finished biking the Meseta and I guess I didn't drink enough water prior to that. In Leon I felt the familiar pain of a kidney stone (I had my first kidney stone when I was 8 months pregnant - feel sorry for me). I was on the top bunk and quickly got down.
A danish woman took me to the hospital, what an experience. They gave me some meds and we went back to the albergue. They told me to hang tight for a couple of days in Leon and then I could leave.
After 3 days and switching albergues because of bed bugs, I woke up and started throwing up due to the pain. I went back to the hospital and it's was a terrible experience before they finally checked me in (needed me to fill in a form while I was in agony) they hooked me up to morphine. relief.
Then they spent 2 days assessing my insurance to blast the stone. 2 days wondering what was going to happen to me. Was I going to finish the camino, was I going to have to fly back to Canada or to Switzerland where my family was staying. When they finally figured out that the insurance was good, they got me up on the table and couldn't find it. They then xrayed me with ink and they still couldn't find it so they assumed I had passed it and discharged me.
I went back to the albergue and washed all of my clothing due to the bed bugs and put my backpack on the balcony in a garbage bag and told the owner. After I came back, my backpack had been thrown in the garbage - unretrievable.
At this point I was wondering if the camino was telling me to not keep going. If really felt like there were some lessons here, and I'm not sure what the hell the camino was providing. (I know now but that's for another time)
I started walking and things didn't feel great. Fast forward 5 weeks, I finished the camino, went to switzerland, then Turkey, things still weren't getting better. I got a CT scan back in Switzerland and they told me I still had the stone. Insurance said they already treated the emergency in Spain and they discharged me so I was going to have to fly back to Canada to have it taken care of.
5 weeks, and I finally passed the stone in Switzerland. Happiest day of my life (save for the birth of my children and my wedding day). I have never felt that relief before.
Thanks for asking!!
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