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...
By the way, I've talked to women who have given birth and had kidney stones. If given a choice, each of them would have opted for child birth.
In regards to kidney stones, Demerol is your friend, your best friend.
Passed a kidney stone 2 years ago. The worst pain ever and it lasted 7 days. A couple of hydromorphone injections helped a lot plus taking it in pill form every four hours. All the nurses told me the pain was like like childbirth only you don’t have to send it to college 18 years later.
Still have lots of hydromorphone pills left which I keep just in case another one comes along.
As others have posted the pain is so bad it makes you vomit about every 15 minutes.
I’ve had kidney stones and gallstones. (Yeah. I’m like a freakin’ quarry!) If childbirth hurt as bad, EVERYONE would be an only child.
When you get one, morphine is your best and only friend!
I have read where cokes/diet drinks, etc. actually leech calcium from bones, which form kidney stones. I’m trying to stay away from cokes myself. I have heard some people say that drinking them even causes slight kidney pain afterwards.
I’ve had the pleasure of giving birth to kidney stones six times. The smallest stone was 9mm and became lodged in the right ureter, which created back pressure in the right kidney that created the most exquisite pain, I’ve ever endured. It came on so quickly, that I almost passed out from the pain before I could get to an emergency room.
By the way, I’ve talked to women who have given birth and had kidney stones. If given a choice, each of them would have opted for child birth.
In regards to kidney stones, Demerol is your friend, your best friend.
I’ve had the pleasure of giving birth to kidney stones six times. The smallest stone was 9mm and became lodged in the right ureter, which created back pressure in the right kidney that created the most exquisite pain, I’ve ever endured. It came on so quickly, that I almost passed out from the pain before I could get to an emergency room.
By the way, I’ve talked to women who have given birth and had kidney stones. If given a choice, each of them would have opted for child birth.
In regards to kidney stones, Demerol is your friend, your best friend.
Try living like this. (Not me) Just passed by and saw it.
Some people live with them. Their kidneys are full of rocks.
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I’ve had the pleasure of giving birth to kidney stones six times. The smallest stone was 9mm and became lodged in the right ureter, which created back pressure in the right kidney that created the most exquisite pain, I’ve ever endured. It came on so quickly, that I almost passed out from the pain before I could get to an emergency room.
By the way, I’ve talked to women who have given birth and had kidney stones. If given a choice, each of them would have opted for child birth.
In regards to kidney stones, Demerol is your friend, your best friend.
Kidney stones run in our family. We were told to drink weak lemonade with 1/2 cup pure lemon juice added to the the gallon. Working so far.
If you have a kidney stone, and go to the ER, and you happen to be a lawyer...don’t mention that you’re a lawyer. Then all the docs will come out and worry, worry, worry about how you might get addicted to pain killers. They can worry about that for HOURS.
My Great Grandad did. He went out to the barn and roughed it out.
Tough SOB
One of the worst pains, not the worst. Close though.
The first few times I had them, the hospital would not give me pain medication until they had done a urinalysis.
The last time I was taken to a small hospital in Alabama. When I told the Dr. I had had them many times before and that I knew what it was, he went ahead and gave me pain meidcation before doing all the tests.
The pain meds help but by no means eliminate the pain.
I passed one on my wedding anniversary a few years back. Mrs. Lando had another kind of stone in mind for the occasion.
i had one once........thought i was dying at the very minimum...doctor showed me zoom picture of one and said the canal it travels is more sensitive than your nose.......not fun
Magnesium? Where did you hear that? Dissolves them huh? Please send info. PLEASE. They say if you had one you have a 75% chance of having another.
I have had two now and I can attest to the pain. Absolutely the worst 6 hours (each time) in my life. The last time I made it to the hospital at around 1:30 am, and they didn’t give me morphine until about 5am. I was about to kill someone.
Retired nurse here....I have seen big grown men cry passing a stone as small as a grain of sand. You have to use fine mesh funnels to check the urine passed to see if the stone passed also....Someone comes in with possible kidney stone in the hospital I worked at, pain medication was the first thing ordered....but that was before the GD government and some nanny’s thought doctors gave too much pain medication. Now some doctors are afraid to use the medications for fear of lawsuit or government coming after them....even oncologist. Its a shame. No virtue in pain when it can be relieved....
“The pain meds help but by no means eliminate the pain.”
That was exactly what I experienced. The morphine (?) made it easier, almost to the point I didn’t care, but it still hurt. A lot. Weird.
Milk of Magnesia- once a month
whether you feel you need it or not
Same with pepto bismol
They feed COWS with more minerals than they normally give humans. And they do it because cows are a COMMODITY WORTH MONEY
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