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!
A man gets kidney stones and complains about how painful they are and that he never wants to go thru that again.
A women gives birth and says how painful it was then turns to her husband and says “Honey, let’s have another baby”....
There are different types of stones. Prevention, which includes diet changes that depend on the type.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/15604-kidney-stones-
I hear ya brother.
I right now have a 8mm stone in my left kidney, and as an airline pilot, that grounds me.
-Not real painful yet, but I have passed three prior to this one over the last 32 years. Never have I experienced such pain. Wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. Well, maybe Obama...
Catscan is tomorrow, then decisions.
My dad had one that was 9mm. Deemed to big to break up. They had to get it out surgically.
Bad news, it’s surgery. Good news, when you wake up, it’s gone.
Good luck...it will pass. Eventually.
I have been doing that once each month for years and have not had a k stone attack since.
I have had 4 attacks before she told me about the remedy. I hope it helps, KiC.
I only have taken morphine during my three previous stones, and I remember thinking, “This really doesn’t hurt any less,.. I just don’t care anymore”. -Weird.
A male relative had one that was 5/8", which is about 16 mm. They broke it up with extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. Took several sessions.
Alkalinize: raw lemon juice, raw apple cider vinegar. Although these contain weak organic acids, they produce alkaline ash when metabolized.
I suggest you add magnesium, with evening meal (as it can be very relaxing to those currently deficient. Magnesium Glycinate is well absorbed. Magnesium Oil (not an oil: = Magnesium Chloride) in water is useful. I would avoid Magnesium Oxide as sole or main form.
placemarker
A young coworker went to work while passing one. Great entertainement!
Oh man, the sweat poured off him at times!
“. . . they pass out those damned oxycontin and hydrocodone like candy . . .”
Sometimes I wish that were still true. It isn’t.
Take Magnesium. Flushes calcium. 250mg/day. At night.
Also, 100mg of Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine - NOT pyridoxal.)
I recently had lithotripsy on a 9 millimeter stone. Sadly instead of the sand the doctor hoped it would become by way of the procedure didn’t work out and I spent a weekend passing fragments. It was not pleasant! Still not as bad as shingles or childbirth but all of those are less painful than diverticulitis, which to me was the worst!
I hope you feel better quickly.
Both parents had multiple kidney stones. My brother has had one and I had one. No one told me that you could take extra-strength Excedrin, get in a hot bath and the pain from a kidney stone would go away until the next time it hurt.
After I had ‘mystery pain’ a couple of times, I talked to a doctor and at the time I was feeling fine so it was put down to a probably cyst. Probably kept that sucker for about 10 years. I don’t advise that as it grew to the size of a quarter.
Rarely had any pain after the first few times, which included while on vacation at Disney World. I insisted I could handle it and just walked a little more slowly than everyone else (including the 5 year old), drank water, upchucked occasionally.
It finally quit hurting on that trip and didn’t hurt again until years later when I had a little blood in my urine one morning. Went to the doctor, referred to a urologist and whattaya know, it’s a bouncing kidney stone the size of a quarter. Had two lithotripsies on that stone.
No problems since then but I wonder when it’s going to happen again. Lemon juice, PowerAde with potassium citrate, but can’t do anything about avoiding all the oxalate foods since I have to eat low carb for Type II D.
Go To to the health food store and get some liquid magnesium and start taking it. It’s like a miracle.
I second your statement. Chanca Piedra tea from sunfoods disolved my stone. It saved me from surgery. It has worked on other people that I told.
Prayers Up for you brother.
“ Dr. has prescribed allopurinol “
So those must have been uric acid stones.
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