Oh so now I'm MAD I phoned my friend this morning after about 5 days of not speaking to her because we were both so busy - her DR told her to come off of atkins because it could be DAMAGING HER KIDNEYS!!!!!!!!!!! OMG.
What happened was...she had that blood test done, and it came back with a trace of ecoli (what the heck???????) anyway, he gave her some antibiotics to take - and within three days she was doubled over couldn't walk etc - so they took more blood, this time is came up with a big infection of the kidneys - so he changed her medication over and now she's getting better - but she said at one stage her urine was completely red where there was so much blood in it.
Anyway, I said to her this morning, did they actually check you for kidney stones or anything, but no, they just told her to come off of the diet as that was what was causing it.
I'm really mad.
Emma