Do. Not. EVER. Get. Kidney Stones.

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Just to follow up from last week. It came out today....oooooohhhhh did it come out. Massive lower back pain late friday night. Kids wondering why daddy is rolling around on the floor in the fetal position and calling his urologist at 7am on a Saturday? Long and gruesome story short. I just had it surgically removed this morning. I'm home now. Have Mon. and Tues. off to recover with massive amounts of Toradol and Darvocet. Vicadin doesn't help. Repeat. VICADIN doesn't help. 😱 If you hear any shrieking in the night, in the words of Der Schtingel, it's probably me.
And another photographic weekend come and gone.
Remember: Just say no. Somehow.
 
Thanks Steve. I'd planned on kidney stones sometime in the next few years...but I've cancelled.

Seriously...Good luck with that. Sounds a bit like hell.
 
been there - rolled on the floor...

start/keep drinking water by the gallons per day.
drink lots of cranberry juice.
even doing this i suffered a second, though much less painful, bout.

i can still hear the screams...

joe
 
Steve,
I've had kidney stones since I was 12 (now 41), they aren't fun at all. Last December I hit the motherload when one got stuck between my kidney and bladder, they had to crawl up in there and blast it out with a laser. Xrays showed 8 more so I also got lithotripsy...yeah! Drink lot's of fluids and take care.

Toradol is your friend!

BTW, my urologist's name is Dr. Winkle (serious!) 🙂

Todd
 
Apparently, this is as close as a guy gets to knowing what it's like to give birth..

Diet and exercise is the key (although genetics does play a part) is what I've been told.

Get better guy.. I hear the pain is pretty much unbearable.

Dave
 
No experience with the surgery, but real experience with passing 2 stones. Incredible pain, to the point of almost passing out. The trip to the hospital after was like a vacation. Try to never do it again. I mean try REAL hard.....

My sympathy also for your lost weekend. Been there, done that, also.

Harry
 
Steve, my god what an ordeal. For whatever reason I get them with some regularity
(and yes, I know I should be gulping cranberry juice). But I've passed so many they
seem to have their own traffic lane, so there's that initial "being shot in the back"
sensation, then just waiting around.

One time when I did end up in the emergency room the guy next to me had the same affliction. Here's the kicker--at that moment his wife was three floors up in
labor! Talk about sympathy pains.

Only someone who has experienced these things can know the severity of the pain.
It's something no one can just imagine. I hope you can avoid any recurrence of
this--at least to such an extreme.

Fred
 
Todd.Hanz said:
Steve,
I've had kidney stones since I was 12 (now 41), they aren't fun at all. Last December I hit the motherload when one got stuck between my kidney and bladder, they had to crawl up in there and blast it out with a laser. Xrays showed 8 more so I also got lithotripsy...yeah! Drink lot's of fluids and take care.

Toradol is your friend!

BTW, my urologist's name is Dr. Winkle (serious!) 🙂

Todd
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Todd, that's a good one. My dad told me that several years ago in our hometown of
Birmingham there was a urolgist named Seth Poole. Again, your experience, like
Steve's is far more serious than what I've experienced. I truly hope you never have
to go through anything that extreme again. Hell, I'm gonna down a big glass of water right now--preventive maintenance.

Fred
 
Hi Steve,

Been there before myself! When I was a new RN I always thought how bad could renal colic be as I have seen grown macho type man crying in bed! Then I got it myself! Good God! The only part of me that was not in pain was my hair! Passing out the stones is like passing out razor blades from my kidney, down the ureter and bladder and through my urethra! You have my empathy and yes, please take your prescribed medications and drink alot of water!

Regards,
Peter
 
yossarian said:
Todd, that's a good one. My dad told me that several years ago in our hometown of
Birmingham there was a urolgist named Seth Poole. Again, your experience, like
Steve's is far more serious than what I've experienced. I truly hope you never have
to go through anything that extreme again. Hell, I'm gonna down a big glass of water right now--preventive maintenance.

Fred
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You guys are cracking me up. Much appreciated!
I guess it's better than Egbert Sousé 😉
 
I was lucky. They found two of them before any pain (3 weeks ago) and used ultrasound to break them. No pain passing the fragments. Still remains to see if all is clear (next week's Xrays).

However, my mom did pass stones! So, I asked her: "Mom, what hurts more kidney stones or birth?". She screamed that "there is NO comparison. Birth is easy! The pain comes and goes and in few hours it is all over. Kidney stones is the something else". This from a woman that gave birth twice with NOT even painikillers.
 
Peter said:
Hi Steve,

Been there before myself! When I was a new RN I always thought how bad could renal colic be as I have seen grown macho type man crying in bed! Then I got it myself! Good God! The only part of me that was not in pain was my hair! Passing out the stones is like passing out razor blades from my kidney, down the ureter and bladder and through my urethra! You have my empathy and yes, please take your prescribed medications and drink alot of water!

Regards,
Peter
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Wow...you've actually made me feel better 😱

Oh, and BTW, my doc told me NOT to drink cranberry juice 😕
 
Yoiks! How I remember the pain. I also needed the laser treatment as mine wouldn't pass. The worst part of it was that for the first time in my life I realized that there are parts of my body that I had no control over.
 
dnk512 said:
I was lucky. They found two of them before any pain (3 weeks ago) and used ultrasound to break them. No pain passing the fragments. Still remains to see if all is clear (next week's Xrays).

However, my mom did pass stones! So, I asked her: "Mom, what hurts more kidney stones or birth?". She screamed that "there is NO comparison. Birth is easy! The pain comes and goes and in few hours it is all over. Kidney stones is the something else". This from a woman that gave birth twice with NOT even painikillers.
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Oh, and I was thinking this too: During labor, I gotta believe, that amidst all of that agony, screaming, insanity...somehow, there's got to be strength garnered from the thought of the eventual goal, the reward, the BIRTH. Me? I've got a bouncing baby...stone? THAT is my namesake?
 
Apologies in advance. Especially for posting this without ever having gone through it. but....

"I can pee freely now, the pain is gone!"

Kinda suprised Wierd Al never picked that one up.
 
I've been lucky. Had them almost 20 years ago, passed them, and, so far no recurrence. My wife also happens to be a nurse at a large lithotripsy center. When she came home to find me flopping like a flounder on our living room floor, she looked down at me and said: "You have a kidney stone, pick a hospital, I'll drive." While trying not to scream in pain in the ER at 3AM, the ER doc came over and asked me if it would be OK for him to give me something for the pain instead of waiting until my doctor arrived! I wanted to either grab him by his tie and smack him for asking the most stupid question ever, or kiss him. They say most guys do get them again in 5 years. My Dr. also told me to drink water, but he also said beer was good too! I'm definitely going to keep that Doc! For a small fee I'll give you guys his name.
 
About three years ago I suddenly passed a small stone with no pain except I could feel it pass. It fell on the rim of the toilet bowl, somehow. I wiped it off with some toilet paper and placed it in a 35mm film container and brought it in to my urologist. Not long after I had trouble urinating and it turned out to be a bladder stone (a kidney stone that had decended into the bladder). The surgical removal was certainly not fun but fortunately not too painful although urination was painful for about a week.
In view of the number of RFF sharing this experience it is no wonder we own vintage cameras and equipment. We are vintage folks.
Kurt M.
 
langdon auger said:
Wow...you've actually made me feel better 😱

Oh, and BTW, my doc told me NOT to drink cranberry juice 😕
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Cranberry juice is good for prevention of urinary tract infection by increasing the ph of urine but craneberry juice and apple juice contain oxalate, which increases the formation of calcium oxalate crystal. I presume your renal stones are of the oxalate type? Just drink lots of water, you cannot be wrong with that! If you are not having any heart, renal or hypertensive conditions, water intake of 2 litres a day should be fine.
 
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