two of the NASTIEST WORDS in the english dictionary
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Big Old Boy
Hunter
I have felt your pain!
gunman42782
Hunter
Me too. They aint nothing to joke about for sure.Big Old Boy said:
Selena
Hunter
Here I thought it was liberal and Democrat but kidney stone qualifies as well.
JFB
Hunter
I thought I was dying! The EMS snickered I was doing the "kidney roll"
My wife has had a couple bouts that put her in the hospital both times. 2nd time they lasered 26 between both kidneys. Trust me, she does everything to prevent them.
Killed me that I couldn't do anything for her. Just watching her in pain made me feel miserable. She did the 'Kidney Roll' and cried for a few hours until the pain meds finally kicked in. Talk about being helpless.
Killed me that I couldn't do anything for her. Just watching her in pain made me feel miserable. She did the 'Kidney Roll' and cried for a few hours until the pain meds finally kicked in. Talk about being helpless.
BROKENBEAR
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Me too ...on a regular basis ..started them 5 years ago..and find I can pass them if I can relax ...FYI ...I have found that nothing but fentanil / fentanyl is the only drug that lets me relax enough to pass them ...XXX...BUT...XXX ...and this is just me ..but I hope for you sufferers too ...a hot hot tub of water instantly stops my pain but even better relaxes me enough to pass the stones ...that is til last year they had to go in to the kidney and take out a clump of 5 stones ...doesn't that shiver your timbers!
Bear
Bear
I pee-ed one out about 4 years, it was the size of a concrete block and had fish hooks all over it. I have had no further problems since then and truly sympathize with you good folks that have to deal with them on a regular bases. I think I could have bent a #5 bar of steel into a U shape.
pete44ru
Hunter
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I passed a kidney stone in 1989, but since I knew from the prolonged pain that it was coming, I started screening my water discharge - and caught that sucker in the plastic screen !
It was about the size of half a split pea, and was a golden/mineral color.
My Urologist had it analyzed, it turned out to be caused by excess uric acid - so he prescribed allopurinol (which is used to treat gout) daily for the rest of my life.
I've had a couple of UTI's over the years since then, but no kidney stones.
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I passed a kidney stone in 1989, but since I knew from the prolonged pain that it was coming, I started screening my water discharge - and caught that sucker in the plastic screen !
It was about the size of half a split pea, and was a golden/mineral color.
My Urologist had it analyzed, it turned out to be caused by excess uric acid - so he prescribed allopurinol (which is used to treat gout) daily for the rest of my life.
I've had a couple of UTI's over the years since then, but no kidney stones.
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Sturgis270
Single-Sixer
I've had two. Been some years and no others. In 2005 I donated my right kidney to my late brother. Scans had shown one starting to form. He lived another 10 years and never had a problem with a stone. Re the pain ...be very thankful for strong drugs!
Colonialgirl
Hawkeye
I had a kidney stone way back in the early 1980's ; Couldn't tell what was wrong and someone from work FINALLY
drove me to the hospital ER; They diagnosed me as a kidney stone and after peeing through a sieve for a couple of hours, the pain went away and they decided it must have been a SMALL one and I had passed it before they got the sieves out.
Never happened again, Thank the good Lord !!
drove me to the hospital ER; They diagnosed me as a kidney stone and after peeing through a sieve for a couple of hours, the pain went away and they decided it must have been a SMALL one and I had passed it before they got the sieves out.
Never happened again, Thank the good Lord !!
welder
Buckeye
Two bouts for me. Pain was tough. Passed the first one in two days, the second took 5.
My first Karate instructor was 6'2", 225 lbs. as low level belt students we didn't always pull our punches, and it never seemed to phase him. At 0400, he appears at my house holding his back, and pacing. Sent him to the ER. Yep, KIDNEY STONES! Those suckers only millimeters in size can bring big men down so quickly! Thank God I have not suffered that maladay. As a nurse, I have dosed hundreds in ER.
gramps
gramps
I had on removed surgically removed in 1982. I have a long, thick uneven scar on my left side. It looks like a shark bite. The stone was shaped like a goat head sticker.
I've had 4, 2 while I was in Alaska and 2 since I moved to Idaho. I take Hydrocodone where ever I go now. Better to catch the pain when it starts. First one woke me from a sleep. Everytime a wave of pain hit me I threw up. I've only ever caught one, but the last one was a doozy. After an exray the dr let me know what to expect. I could feel it moving through me and caught it. There are many kinds of stones. I have been lucky as mine are smooth and not nearly as painful upon discharge as some can be. Turns out I don't drink enough water. Let me tell you, I make a serious effort to drink at least two quarts a day, and more if I can.
Been there done that. Docs advice, drink more water. Works.
vito
Hunter
My first kidney stone was in 1983, and I prayed that I would never have another one. It was a gut wrenching experience, to say the least. Thirty years later, a second one, but this one literally saved my life. The pain from the stone was severe, almost unbearable. In the ER they did a CAT scan to find the exact location of the stone, and in the process found a mass on my OTHER kidney. That mass turned out to be cancer, but at an early enough stage that I had no symptoms and it was fully contained within the kidney. I had to have a nephrectomy, where my kidney was removed, but that has been almost four years now with no cancer reoccurrence. I was told that 5 year survival for kidney cancer is about 15%, but in my case, because of how early it was found, my odds are 95% that the cancer will not return. So as bad as having a kidney stone is, sometimes there is actually a silver lining, even we don't normally think of cancer as a silver lining.
welder
Buckeye
Bear Paw Jack said:
My first one woke me from a sleep too. For a moment or two I thought maybe I had been shot or stabbed. Rolled over and fell from the bed onto the floor doubled up, nauseous and hardly able to get a breath. Crawled to the car, wife drove me to the ER while I stayed rolled up in the floor. Finally got a shot of something that allowed me to speak to the Dr. He thought kidney stone but had to rule out other stuff. They insisted they needed a urine sample but it took me forever even after the shot, I just couldn't relax enough. Caught it two days later in the screen thing, looked like a brown pop bottle cap with little spurs all around, like they used to crimp on the returnable bottles. I could not believe something so small could take you to the floor and hurt so badly.
A few years ago my manager called and asked me to ride with him to pick up another employee, a truck driver who had an attack on the interstate and couldn't drive the last hour in. We picked her up and took her straight to the ER, we suspected kidney stones and sure enough that what it was.
