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Kidney Stones

TeamblueTeamblue Member Posts: 782 ✭✭✭✭
edited May 2002 in General Discussion
Entering week four of my first kidney stone incident. I?m in the ?Thought I was well until I drove on a rough road ? stage. Kidney stones: the gift that keeps on giving.
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  • TeamblueTeamblue Member Posts: 782 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    yesterday I had 2 stones blasted with shockwaves. This week I get to pee through a strainer as I force liquids down. I have a stent in which makes it feel like I swallowed a pencil. Staying home today but maybe back to work tomorrow.
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  • TeamblueTeamblue Member Posts: 782 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have been on Vacation this last week and we went to Ga. to the hunt camp to hang feeders and set out stands. The wife and I went out to dinner last Sat. night and on the way home she got in alot of pain and asked me to take her to the ER so I did. They said she has kidney stones. Its been a week and they are not passing. She has been drinking lots of fluids but nothing. Yesterday we got home and I took her to our regular doctor. He is going to run some kind of tests to see where the stones are and what to do about them. What causes the stones and does anybody know of anything that will help the stones to pass quickly?
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  • TeamblueTeamblue Member Posts: 782 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just had my third one in eight years. This one was not very fun, but I did not miss any work; though I was pretty sour about life in general. My first one had me in the emergency room feeling like I had been gutshot. Bad, bad deal for anyone to go through. Any one here with any interesting K/S stories of their own??

    Justice through Valor 1*
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  • TeamblueTeamblue Member Posts: 782 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Anybody ever have a kidney stone? How did you deal with?

    I'm on my 3rd day of trying to pass this thing and it's hurtin like hell!!

    Anybody got any tips on making it pass sooner?
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  • TeamblueTeamblue Member Posts: 782 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    #$**#%*%~*!#$)~*$*~)$&)~@&^$_~#^$~^_(#%^~_!

    Pretty sure I've got another one. Awake at 6am with a sore back. Pain level slowly ramping up which usually means my kidney is blocked and trapped urine is making it swell up like a balloon. I'm about 50/50 on whether I pass them or if they form at the top of the ureter next to the kidney and are too big to pass. What really bites is I am out of pain killers. My urologist no longer treats men so I have to find a different one. Looking forward to a few hours of excruciating pain until I can convince some new doctor I am not a drug addict looking for pills. Using a large back massager to thump away over my right kidney to hopefully jiggle something loose. Sometimes that works. I have a really high tolerance for pain but I can't stress enough how much I hate using it.
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  • TeamblueTeamblue Member Posts: 782 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    anybody had them what do they feel like I THINK I'M GONNA FLIP OUT HERE!
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  • mcneely77mcneely77 Member Posts: 411 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Teamblue,
    So far I have been lucky. Did they tell you what causes kidney stones? I have a brother in law that swears I will end up with one from drinking so much soda (diet vernors). I don't drink alot of water and even less milk. Do you know if I am a candidate?

    Do not mistake my kindness for weakness.

    IALEFI, ASLET, NRA, and proud owner of a pair of S&W revolvers.
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  • TeamblueTeamblue Member Posts: 782 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My Doc tells me it is largely an inherited problem. Both my maternal grandfather and great-grandfather had them. He also said that diet plays a role. He asked me if I drank alot of soda, and I don't so he didn't inquire further, but did say that soda in general has "oxalates" (sp) in it that contribute to stones. Large calcium intake can also be contributory. My wife thinks mine originate in my head, but has shown sympathy during my "episodes".

    Justice through Valor 1*
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  • njretcopnjretcop Member Posts: 7,975
    edited November -1
    I have passed over two dozen since I was 24 years old, a long time age, lol. I too, was told that hereditary had a lot to do with it.

    Only one of them would not pass and they had to go into get it. The first time you urinate after that procedure you think you are going to die.

    Lately I have not been bothered with them and the doctor said that the condition might have righted itself. I hope so.

    -Charlie

    "It's the stuff dreams are made of Angel"NRA Certified Firearms InstructorMember: GOA, RKBA, NJSPBA, NJ area rep for the 2ndAMPD. njretcop@copmail.com
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  • BullzeyeBullzeye Member Posts: 3,560
    edited November -1
    Cranberry juice. Lots of it.
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  • COONASSCOONASS Member Posts: 2,068 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch the most pain I ever ever been in my life...
    Its the first time I had to be admitted in the hospital since I born..
    I thought I was going to die.........I told the er doc to cut me open with a dull rusty butter knife...........well i passed it a few days later.............ouch ouch ouch ouch

    "A man is known by the
    company his mind keeps."
    T.A. Aldrich
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  • CS8161CS8161 Member Posts: 13,596 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had kidney stones a few years ago....brutal....I was on the ground writhing in pain, went to the ER, doctor gave me 5mg of morphine, didn't make a dent in the pain, then another 5mg, finally some relief. Last year I had gall stones. The symptoms of gall stones mimic a heart attack with severe pain under the sternum and between the shoulder blades, sweating, nausea, chills. What a nightmare!

    Chris8161
    Admit nothing, deny everything, demand proof!
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  • 4wheeler4wheeler Member Posts: 3,441
    edited November -1
    I had one busted in feb. was over an inch in diameter.passed stones for 7 weeks,fun,fun,fun. i survived on pain medicine. i have been getting them since the 80`s. the first one i had, i handed my wife a gun and told her to just shoot me,she has regretted not shooting me ever since.

    "It was like that when I got here".
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  • bwabwa Member Posts: 224 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've had just one(in 1987), which was one too many. My doctor said they are very much related to mineral or calcium intake. Since the groundwater in these parts has a lot of minerals, he put me on bottled water. I've also noticed that I'll begin to get that dull ache in my kidney area if I drink too much milk, eat too much ice cream, etc. This is the calcium connection. The solution? -take another magnesium tablet right away(magnesium interacts with calcium somehow to keep it from building up -ask an expert for a more accurate explanation).

    Anyway, I haven't had one since.
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