Hi Sally, I’ve finally discovered your website after many years of debilitating illness, adult onset epilepsy, IBS, vulvodynia after taking antibiotics , Tarlov cysts on my spine resulting in spinal surgery, and an under active thyroid that started in my late 30’s. I’m now 62. At the moment I have another bad flare up of vulvodynia and electric neurological shocks in my right calf from disc degeneration in my spine. Do you think this back problem could be a result of oxalate poisoning too? I’m hoping so as I am just gearing up to follow the low oxalate diet. Best regards from Debbie in Australia
Hi Debbie in Asutralia,
Oxalate has multiple ways to undermine the health of your bones, including your spine. Oxalate creates a calcium deficit in your blood every time you eat high oxalate meals (its common for most meals to be high). Your bones have to donate valuable calcium to keep your organs (esp. the heart) happy. Oxalate, with time, also loves to settle in the bones as deposits (imperfections disrupting the bone structure) and also the discs, tendons and the other connective tissues that maintain your spine’s structure. Oxalate deposits cause the bones to become even weaker and brittle.
I too have degenerative spine disease, but it has stabilized after several years on the low oxalate diet. I still have periods of inflammation in my spine, but think this might be part of the process of the immune system helping to remove some of the oxalate from my spine. Taking potassium citrate and calcium has helped with the stabilization too.
Good Bless you.
Hi Sally.
Can you please advise someone just starting out to remove oxalates… how much calcium citrate, magnesium citrate and potassium citrate would you recommend per day? Should it be spread out or can be taken all at once?
Thanks in advance,
Sally goes over all that information in her online groups, which you can join through this link: https://sallyknorton.com/support. Group participants get handouts summarizing starting doses and recommendations for finding your own optimum dose, as well as other useful materials for recovering successfully from oxalate toxicity. If you can’t find a time that works for you, please send a note through the contact form at https://sallyknorton.com/contact/consultation/ and tell us your time zone; we’ll try to offer a group time you can join.
Hi Sally, I’ve finally discovered your website after many years of debilitating illness, adult onset epilepsy, IBS, vulvodynia after taking antibiotics , Tarlov cysts on my spine resulting in spinal surgery, and an under active thyroid that started in my late 30’s. I’m now 62. At the moment I have another bad flare up of vulvodynia and electric neurological shocks in my right calf from disc degeneration in my spine. Do you think this back problem could be a result of oxalate poisoning too? I’m hoping so as I am just gearing up to follow the low oxalate diet. Best regards from Debbie in Australia
Hi Debbie in Asutralia,
Oxalate has multiple ways to undermine the health of your bones, including your spine. Oxalate creates a calcium deficit in your blood every time you eat high oxalate meals (its common for most meals to be high). Your bones have to donate valuable calcium to keep your organs (esp. the heart) happy. Oxalate, with time, also loves to settle in the bones as deposits (imperfections disrupting the bone structure) and also the discs, tendons and the other connective tissues that maintain your spine’s structure. Oxalate deposits cause the bones to become even weaker and brittle.
I too have degenerative spine disease, but it has stabilized after several years on the low oxalate diet. I still have periods of inflammation in my spine, but think this might be part of the process of the immune system helping to remove some of the oxalate from my spine. Taking potassium citrate and calcium has helped with the stabilization too.
Good Bless you.
Hi Sally.
Can you please advise someone just starting out to remove oxalates… how much calcium citrate, magnesium citrate and potassium citrate would you recommend per day? Should it be spread out or can be taken all at once?
Thanks in advance,
Angelique
Sally goes over all that information in her online groups, which you can join through this link: https://sallyknorton.com/support. Group participants get handouts summarizing starting doses and recommendations for finding your own optimum dose, as well as other useful materials for recovering successfully from oxalate toxicity. If you can’t find a time that works for you, please send a note through the contact form at https://sallyknorton.com/contact/consultation/ and tell us your time zone; we’ll try to offer a group time you can join.