Posted on 05/15/2011 3:30:58 PM PDT by neverbluffer
Anyone ever have a Kidney Stone? I had this excrutiating pain in my side/back area and drove myself to the hospital.
Worst pain I ever experienced. I was like a baby screaming and crying in the hospital. Turns out, it was a kidney stone but the pain came and went in less than 2 hours.
The nurse said it is sometimes worse than giving birth to a child...
Damn isn't that true. I had a pain in my lower abdomen when we were grocery shopping last week and I was grumpy as h*ll because I was sure I was going to spend the night in ER. Thank you Lord you spared me from that one.
The first stone I had started moving as I was walking down a flight of stairs...I ended up at the bottom of the stairs and did not remember how I got their. That first one took three months to pass and was a modest 3.5mm. I then passed a 5mm stone and then had a 6.5mm one “retrieved”...we won't go into details but I decided after the procedure that all future stones will come out on their own. Since then I have passed a 8.5mm, 9mm, and a 5mm. Based on how this one feels I am guessing it is in the 5-6mm range. I tend to get one every two years...this one is over three years since my last one so maybe it is an improvement.
For me, most of the stones take around two months to pass, and since I don't take pain medications (except an occasional Tylenol) I can normally tell how things are progressing by how my body is reacting. But when the stone is actively moving I too have to PACE...no position is available to get comfortable.
Size is everything with kidney stones. A less than 4 millimeter stone can usually pass in time - with incredible wall scratching, hair pulling, sweet Jesus praying and an overpowering drive to repent all past sins and to amend one’s life. A 4 mm stone is iffy and may require lithotripsy as will anything larger. I’ve had three stones: one passed; #2 went with lithotripsy and #3 - 5 mm big is still there and the doc says don’t mess with it until it moves. Here’s the kidney stone story from hell: my best bud from high school is recovering, even as I type, from the fourth progressively intrusive procedure to remove four stones that are - wait for it - one to two INCHES in diameter. Finaly, they just opened him up, resectioned the kidney and pulled out the stones. Here’s the kicker - he had no symptoms until the stones showed up on a MRI for unrelated symptoms. God’s honest truth! Do you feel comforted now?
The first stone started moving while I was watching the first Star Wars movie in the 1970s. I had to pee 27 times in the first hour. For a couple of years I thought that was the most over-rated movie in history! It made no stinking sense!
I have had two of them. The first one, the doctor didn’t give me anything for the pain fast enough (for me) and I threatened him. Yeah, they say it is one of the worst pains you can have. On the plus side, my urologist was the same one John Wayne Bobbit (sp?) had, so we had some funny talks.
My favorite “stone” remedy: Bloody Marys! Acid in the tomato juice and lemon is for some liquid and alcohol for everything else.
Funny. When I was in college, some course, I don’t remember what, I had this mousey little guy as a professor. He was telling us about having a kidney stone.
What I remember is that as he described it to us (most were bored beyond recognition) the look on his face seemed very odd to me. He seemed completely detached, as if he were a thousand miles away.
Now I know, it was his eyes. He was remembering what it was like.
Ugh.
What about gall stones? I’m scheduled this coming Tuesday for orientation for gall bladder removal. (I’m 77+ now)
Regards,
GtG
I had gall bladder removed a few years ago. They did it as an outpatient. Not fun but much easier than dealing with kidney stones.
My Mother had gall bladder surgery back in the 60s and almost died from it. Back then it was a serious operation.
not a bad idea.
The last one I passed was the size of a grain of rice. That was a month ago.
Good luck
I passed one in the worst piss of my life.
I’m definitely right and you can read about it in a book by Carolyn Dean called the “Magnesium Miracle”. Calcium requires mag to dissolve which is what caused PLAQUE on our veins, asthma, calcium deposits on the breast...etc etc
The milk of magnesia doesn’t really have a good form of mag in it because it won’t absorb.
The best kind to take, IMO, is magnesium malate by Source Naturals.
had kidney stone but ruptured colon from infection was 100 times worse and I nearly died
I had a gall stone which in turn cause a massive pancreas infection. Which in turn screwed up my liver and kidneys and then my heart. Then I got pneumonia and respiratory failure.
They took my gall bladder but said I can still get gall stones for a repeat performance.
So drinking lots of water isn’t so bad.
Its still a serious operation. Not so much if they can do it without cutting you wide open.
They did put me to sleep but when I awoke, I had 3 tiny incisions in sort of a triangular pattern. After a couple of hours they let me go home.
I didn’t want to run a marathon afterward but still nothing like what my Mother had to go through in the 60s.
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