Posted on 10/22/2018 2:04:36 PM PDT by Kevin in California
Life will be great again when I pass this damn thing. Right now, it's giving me a break. Started this past late Friday morning while driving. Ever since then, it's been off and on pain on a level of 7 out of 10. Early this morning was an ordeal as the pain started just after midnight and lasted until about 3:30am. I had to take the day off work. Been drinking boatloads of water since Friday.
Someone said drink fresh lemonade or lemon juice. Thoughts?
BTW, this is my 3rd bout with these things so not my first rodeo. First two were on my left kidney. This one's on the right.
Like cancer, KIDNEY STONES SUCK!
Both daughters and sister have had them. All three wound up in hospital. They are a bitch. Beg for dilaudid or fentanyl.
Lemonade and tea are good as long as you don’t have other problems (i.e. diabetics shouldn’t drink tons of sweet tea).
Though the re-occurrence is largely genetic. There are things you can do to increase the likelihood of them re-occurring. Like if you eat a lot more salt and calcium and less water (since salt is one of the deposits that can build up to cause kidney stones if you’re not persistently flushing out your kidneys with water, water, & more water). So here in the south we sweat an awful lot when we’re outside during the summer. When I worked a very labor intensive full time job while I was in college, I had to eat a lot more salt and calcium (bananas are good for reducing cramps from being active in the heat) and drink a lot more water during the summer. In such a scenario you don’t increase the likelihood of kidney stones — the extra water allows you to get away with eating more salt and calcium. Then as temperatures cooled down in October I drank less water -— but sometimes didn’t reduce my salt because I had learned to like having extra salt on my foods. That’s a risky diet, kidney stone wise. Now that I finished college and work either from home or in an office, I’m outside in the intense heat usually just one day per week. Thus, I increase my water & salt intake just on day a week. (I find it best to eat more salt the day before I’ll be outside in the heat, then drink more water beginning in the morning before I go outside and continue to drink more until I’m back in the A/C.) That technique helps me keep on keepin’ on in my middle aged years as well as I did in my teens and 20’s.
So if you insist on eating a lot of salt and calcium, you’re committing yourself to drinking a lot more water or you risk having more kidney stones.
Uric acid stones are not very common. They will not show up on plain xrays but can be detected on CT.
About 85% of kidney stones are calcium oxalate. Under magnification (if any is needed) they look like tiny cockleburrs. First time I saw one I knew why that would hurt! Calcium oxalate is a mineral crystal and it has a LOT of sharp edges. Ouch!
I like straight shots.
I have had maybe 20 attacks. My Brother and Sister, Daughter and Mother have all suffered from them. The first time was around 1981. Literally bent me over double with the pain.
Most have been horrible. The last time was just awful. It lasted around 10 days and the pain came and went but was never as severe as they usually are. I always strained my urine and many of them passed but they were about the size of a coarse grain of sand.
The largest and most jagged one actually hurt the least and I just barely noticed when I passed it. The pain is in your back, not in the actual passing of them.
My current Dr. has prescribed allopurinol and I have not had one since. My Sister suffered and attack while in Hungary and the Dr. there also prescribed allopurinol.
I’m no doctor but... :)
what type? Uric acid or calcium? (I believe are the two types)
If uric - I’d recommend drinking copious amounts of water...to the point where you’re going every 15-30 minutes. Do not eat or drink anything with high levels of purines (beer is #1 enemy).
I get gout - uric acid collecting and crystallizing in my right big toe. Since I’ve cut down on beer and make sure I’m more hydrated I’ve not had another episode. The last time I did I drank loads of water (per above), after a few hours I could feel the pain melt away in the space of 1/2 hour. By the end of the day all pain was gone.
^^^ I have not found this advice ANYWHERE but it seems to work, for me at least.
My husband had kidney stones 3 times. His doctor told him to drink beer at night. He now drinks at least one or two every night. No more kidney stones for the last 12 years.
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My first attack happened in Norfolk, VA. My urologist was Dr. Fiveash who I later learned was maybe the top urologist in the country.
He said mine was phosporus but he wasn’t sure the lab was correct. He said the South was the kidney stone belt but they don’t know if it is hereditary or environment. He said to drink large quantities of water and little dairy products.
That first one was one of the worst but the stone was only a little larger than a BB.
Chanca Piedra, or otherwise known as “Stone Buster” works amazingly well. It works against gallstones and pancreatic stones, also. If you have stones it is well worth the nominal price of Chanca Piedra to get rid of them. It is also wise to take it on and off as a preventative.
A straight shot of apple cider vinegar?
Can you breathe after?
I’ve had 2 kidney stones and 5 kids. The stones were worse.
I got them a week after moving to a new state and job. Family was still at home. Tougher it out for a day then drove myself to the ER. they gave me some awesome pharmaceuticals then sent me home with an Oxy prescription.
They asked who drove me and I told them I was new in town, didn’t know a soul and drove myself. When I told them I was driving home the nurse said “do you have any idea what drugs we gave you?”
“Nope, but I do want more”
They told me to sit in a chair for four hours then I could leave. That’s what I did. Yea sure.
I wanted to go back to the family for Christmas so my uncle flew out to drive me back 600 miles. I had to teach him how to drive a stick while passing kidney stones.
I’m sure it’s been said 100% times, but MAGNESIUM.
I take it as a supplement called “Natural Calm.” Good stuff. No stones.
My kid got them in college too. He called at 4:30 am and said he had a bad pain in his lower back. I told him it was appendix or kidney stones and to have one of his roommates take him to the hospital
Then I rolled over and went back to sleep.
My Daughter told me the stones were worse too.
Prayers up for you, my FRiend. The great diarist Samuel Pepys suffered greatly from kidney stones, recovered and went on to be the head of the navy! So I have high hopes for you.
yes my kiddo had hers broken up with a laser. Too much soda!!!
Sure. It grows on ya.
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