OT - Passing a kidney stone
I'm going to be passing a 5mm stone that's currently stuck in my ureter within the next few days. Looking for veterans that can tell me what to expect.
Is it worst in the ureter or the urethra?
Outside of the pain meds, is there anything I can do to make it more bearable?
Any other suggestions. I ended up in the ER last night because of the excruciating pain of having it taversing my ureter. Not looking forward to more of this.
Yes, I know this isn't a medical board. But, I'm utterly miserable with pain and this is my online "home" so to speak. There's something comforting about seeing the layout when you're in agony.
To drink water. My dad used to ge them. My brother gets them.
Of kidney stones. I know how it goes man.
The worst parts is when it passes through the various systems in your body (ureter-bladder). When I got my first one (I've had two or three), I don't remember ever being in as much pain in my life.
And then my second one, I drove to the hospital at 7 PM. They put me on meds, I drove home. Drove myself back at 2 AM and almost passed out at the wheel.
The part where you ACTUALLY pee it out? No pain. It's wonderful.
To help? Drink A TON of water with lemon. I mean A TON. I was going bathroom about 6-7 times an hour. Heating pad on that area when you lie down.
The audio from this scene is the best. Anytime I hear or see the word "kidney stones" I automatically say it like this guy does. I also use the same tone when I am in the grocery store looking for kidney beans.
Hurts like a MF. Character building
Actually, it's possible to have stones and not even know. I had one occasion outside of the main two where it wasn't as similar in terms of pain but I felt the twinge when passing. Hence the two, possibly three.
passing it is nothing but a relief. having it move thru your body is the worst pain i ever felt. i really thought i was having a heart attack or dying. thank god i never had another one.
you'll notice that he never claimed his wife was a veterinarian.
I'm thinking she's just some CPA with a cat penis chopping fetish.
She probably doesn't even know that there are people who would PAY HER to do this!
She's a pre-school teacher. The cat-penis thing is just a hobby she does on the weekends.
or you sleep with one eye open at all times.
you must be married to the former mrs. bobbit.....
Haha, yes I usually let her win arguments for a reason.
Yep, TONS of water. And through all of the pain it causes while moving through the system, as soon as it comes out it is instant relief.
My high school friend had kidney stone issues and he ripped a urinal off a cinder block wall while passing one of his.
That's comforting.... yeesh.
Drink a ton of water, try that lemon juice + olive oil mix, keep a heating pad on it.
If you can get through the internal parts of the stone, the peeing it out part is easy.
Prepare for the worst and hope for the best. All that jazz.
Our prayers are with you during this hard time
I don't envy you. Get well soon!
Thoughts and prayers...
No seriously those hurt, best of luck and keep in mind that this will pass, literally in this case
now maybe it was a coincidence - but someone suggested that to me when I had my first kidney stone. I've since had a couple stones.
But after drinking that concotion (which was rather vile, but we're not going for taste here!), the pain and the stone were typically gone within the next few hours.
I was drinking a couple cups of that. Mixed lemon juice with olive oil and water. I almost threw up it was so gross, but that helps.
Not me personally, but my wife had stones with both of our first two pregnancies and it was absolutely brutal. As bad as labor.
Just make sure you actually pass it. We thought she had passed one, but it stuck around and caused a couple of bad kidney infections first.
I hear they're hell.
Never had kidney stones, thank god... but on Monday I had my gallbladder removed, along with a dozen or so gallstones around 1/2 inch each + one that measured nearly 4" x 2" x 2".
Good luck.
The human body is some fucked up shit.
it sounds like you have some wonderful accent gravel to go in your landscaping.
I named it Rocky Gallstona.
Unfortunatly I didn't get to keep it. All I got was a commemerative photographic image.
Pics or it didn't happen.
You really shouldn't have asked for this. But you did.
Did you pass a potato through your man tubes?
"Dad, can you pass the potatoes please? Dad? Dad... are you crying?"
(laproscopic surgery. nice big cut under my navel. i get 3 weeks off for recovery.)
Doctor actually said I've likely been walking around with the big one growing for 20 years & asked how I was able to go that long without complaining. Said "you must be tough." The nurses all said "It must have been excruciating."
When asked what it was on a 1-10 scale, I said a 3 with flare-ups to a 6. Because I have experienced a 10. When I was unable to get up with a fractured vertebrae the EMS tried to pick me up to put me in the stair chair... then dropped me when I screamed. It felt like an ice pick had just been jabbed into my spine.
This was small potatoes.
Doctor actually said I've likely been walking around with the big one growing for 20 years & asked how I was able to go that long without complaining. Said "you must be tough." The nurses all said "It must have been excruciating."
When asked what it was on a 1-10 scale, I said a 3 with flare-ups to a 6. Because I have experienced a 10. When I was unable to get up with a fractured vertebrae the EMS tried to pick me up to put me in the stair chair... then dropped me when I screamed. It felt like an ice pick had just been jabbed into my spine.
This was small potatoes.
Lol. Can't stop laughing at my desk.
Is that like making your own pearls? Did you keep them?
Just a thought.
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My gall bladder looked like a sack of marbles when they yanked it out of me. It's amazing I wasn't in more pain in the years leading up to getting that bastard removed. After thinking it through, my gallstone problems started in high school. I just had no clue what was going on then. Weed must have been very theraputic. Maybe you can find some of that.
I had a good friend who passed many a kidney stone over the years. I decided he had it much worse than I did. He agreed.
Weed got me through a lot over the last couple decades with these stones that I only found out about 6 months ago. By the time of the surgery I couldn't go a day without it, or the nausea would be cripling. Didn't realize a lot of what I was going through was caused by gallstones, from depression, to acne, exhema, exhaustion, & back pain (I previously broke a vertebra, so I thought it was just that getting worse.) All turned out to be symptoms. I didn't say anything to my doctor until I started getting bad abdominal cramps & feared I might have re-torn a hernia I previously had repaired.
but for years leading up to it i started getting horrible back cramps. I did a lot of manual labor and also seemed to be getting constipated a lot more often, so never suspected it was anything serious.
Got worse & worse for years where only physical massage on by back (like having a girlfriend walk on it) and guzzling prune juice gave me any releif.
Finally a friend of a friend said . . "hey sounds like my brother's gall bladder problems".
1 trip to the dr. found a massively impacted gall bladder. It supossedly took them forever to remove it,
Felt a bit stupid for suffering for years in ignorance.