While fishing in a large river under overhanging trees along the bank, a fully grown water moccasin dropped out of a willow tree into the flat bottom boat. It was thrashing around, hissing, randomly striking and generally pissed off. I thought for sure that I was going to get bit. My dad scoped it up in a fish net and threw it out of the boat. I hate poisonous snakes and that was pretty scary, especially because it was so unexpected.

I had the lemon lime flavor. Instructions are basically to drink it all, one glass at a time. When I came in for the procedure, the doctor asked me if I had drank all of the solution. I told him that I had and that I had learned that it is possible for me to pee out of my ass with that stuff. He just laughed and told me to count backwards from 100. Next thing I recall is waking up in the recovery room and I was really hungry after fasting for 24 hours. Then, I got to see color photographs of my gastrointestinal tract and colon. I had no issues. I am not sure that I want to repeat that procedure.

I have a friend that has regular problems of this type, like maybe 3-4 times over the last 20 years or so. He actually has a few stones saved in a pill bottle that he passed and collected in a strainer. His were kind of light brown in color. He compared the pain to a woman giving birth. The shape was not round, but rather flat and jagged. He described the original shape more like a small round object with spines in several directions and that was after having the sonic procedure to break it up. He has also had to have the surgery. I cannot imagine trying to pass that.

My friend with this ongoing issue told me that the doctor prescribed some medicine for him to decrease his uric acid level. He also changed his diet, but I don't know the details. I think it involves less fatty meat and more lemon juice. Not sure about those details though. I hadn't heard that about that tea.

If you haven't considered it already, I suggest that you look at taking eye vitamins with the AREDS formula.
I take Preservision vitamins, because my father had this exact affliction and it is hereditary.
He basically went blind with laser surgery to attempt to correct the issue.
I hope that you have better results.

If you register on the Bausch and Lomb website, they will send you a free refrigerator magnet with a grid on it that you can use to test your vision to see if you have this beginnings of this affliction. They sent me one for free and I use it about once a month. So far, I don't have that issue.