I asked my mom, who's had both children and kidney stones, which pain was worse, and she said the pain was about the same, but at least with childbirth you get a few months warning -- stones just show up and give you excruciating pain.
So it's great y'all are loosing weight (I did too!) but just be careful and drink a lot of water if you do it.
I can't imagine going from a sedentary, high-carb, overweight lifestyle to a radical diet(be it keto or whatever else the person chooses) is easy on the body.
Did you get any lab tests done before and after starting the diet? If you did, how did the results compare?
Only my normal annual blood test. Cholesterol was down after the diet, everything else was pretty much unchanged. We never caught the stone for analysis, but the diet was pinned as the most likely cause. To be fair, I don't have enough data to say it was the diet for certain, only correlations that people who go on Keto have a higher incidence of stones than those who don't.
High-protein diets (ie over 50% of kcals from protein) are neither healthy nor sustainable over more than 1-3 weeks.
I do agree though drink lots of water, it's good for you regardless of your diet.
I can't say for certain, I definitely don't have enough data to prove it. It was correlative at best.