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atusa
12-10-2009, 10:58 PM
Hello!
I am new here, I am a person with cystinuria , my kidneys have made stones from my births and first ages of life. the type of my stones is stag horn so when I was just two, both of my kidneys were on the surgical operations , I am now ok, my kidneys forgot to make stones! actually I drink gallons of water, but my main problem is something else, is cystinuria associated with other diseases, I read somewhere that cystinuria causes speech disorder, sever somatic and developmental delay, I think I am on Autism spectrum. I want to know is there any cystinuric person with this kind of problems. Or can I say my autism is the result of genetic disorder (cystinuria). Please help me to discover this enigma!

DAVIDGOLDFARB
12-12-2009, 10:39 AM
Dear Atusa,
I am not aware of an association of cystinuria with any of the other conditions that you mention: speech disorders, severe somatic and developmental delays, or autism. In fact I don't recall meeting anyone with cystinuria affected by any of those conditions. I have cared for about 80 people with cystinuria and met a lot more at meetings. We are going to be putting together a registry to learn information like this but I'm not aware of any conditions of this sort at all.
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