I hesitate to post #medical disinformation but at this point I think it's clear

I have been dissolving #kidneystones with crystalized lemons

In 2023, I had to have two stones removed surgically.

For Christmas 2024, I got big boxes of "True Lemon" packets (lemon, lime and orange) as flavors to drink more warer. But I've always loved sour things so I was just tossing back packets like candy.

Jan/Feb 2025 I started noticing stinging while urinating. By spring, I had captured a ~1mm stone.

Still not realizing the connection, I came up with a homemade lemon ice #recipe that I would then add lemon packets to. I started eating this daily as a low-cal, high-flavor treat. (Each serving of the ice is ~1 lemon worth of lemon oil and juice, but I also dump....20-30?...packets on a serving. If the marketing is to be believed, this is equivalent to several lemons per day. I LOVE sour.)

To be clear, I'm also still drinking vast amounts of water.

Over the summer I started collecting more and more stones. Every week or two there'd be a day where I'd get say 5 ~1mm stones plus various tiny bits over the course of a couple hours, exactly as if a larger stone broke up and came out as pieces. (Also some other phenomenology I won't get into here.) Mostly there's no pain associated with this but that's not to say I feel nothing.

Once I noticed the connection, I experimented. No lemon for a week or two -> stones stop. Back on lemon -> stones resume. I've done that cycle a few times now under different conditions.

Clear, detailed info on kidney stones is hard to find because there are so many different chemistries and causes. And very few will go so far as to say you can *dissolve* stones.

But also, very few can be taking in as much citric acid as I am.

But here's the deal: *citric* acid helps prevent and may also dissolve (some) kidney stones. But *ascorbic* acid can cause them.

So MAYBE I'm *causing* tiny stones to grow rapidly, passing them and calling that victory.

I would love to get some X-rays to really know.