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Kidney stone-OMG!!!
jimdeere
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I just got out of the ER. CAT scan showed a 1mm stone had passed from the kidney to the bladder. The worst pain I have had ever. I've heard people talk of them but didn't realize how bad . I can't imagine passing a large some or multiple stones.
My Saturday is shot.
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Look out sometimes they come in pairs. I have been in pain for other issues but the "stone" is as close to a 10 as you can get.
Fentanyl is your friend.
BIL has over 200 lined up to pass.
Godspeed Sir for a fast recovery, pain meds of the kind you can get on the street for 1/100th the cost might help. I sure hope your doctor ain't afraid to use the pain meds he has in his arsenal in a legal manner. The dopers have turned pain management into a nightmare for those of us actually suffering and not just trying to get dope.
I was at the doc is the box today for a real bad shoulder issue that was caused by my casting 50 pounds of 230 rounds nose bullets. I have the old HEAVY Lyamn 4- cavity mold. The shock of cutting the sprue must have got some part of my left shoulder real angry, is did not bother me 30 years ago. I suffered severe pain for almost a week, I was unable to use my left arm, the pain was not getting better.
I went to the walk in clinic today, when the doc touched "the spot" on my left shoulder I screamed like a little girl.
I got two shots, Toradol in the right but cheek and steroids in the left cheek. I asked the nurse if I had a cute butt, she said yes but a baby's is even cuter. It is the price we pay for aging.
Get well soon! Are they going to put you in a Lithotripter?
I just had an ultrasound screen of my kidneys, and bladder yesterday. It's been several weeks of pure agony at times, and a very apparent change to urination. I hope it isn't stones, but the nice lady doing the test asked me about half way through if I had ever passed a kidney stone. I know the techs can't say anything, so I'm waiting for follow up.
Gregor62, Drink tons of water in the future, it keeps your body flushing out the bad cooties.
The last one I had put me in ICU for three days and then "upstairs" for another week. They put the Central Line (with accompanying bags (yes, multiples) for the entire time. When I finally got to go home, I did not leave the house for a month.
Sepsis - yea not good. It scared me something fierce when I looked that up.
@US Military Guy , that is scary do what you can to avoid any more of them. Sepsis is a baddie for sure.
I drink at least 6, 20 ounce glasses of water every day. I've also heard cranberry juice helps clean out the bad stuff too, but I can't do cranberry anything.
I'm pretty sure I've passed stones before, there have been two occasions where I thought I was going to pass out while having a pee. I can relate to what Jim is saying on the pain levels. It sucks!
Cranberry has been shown to do nothing at all. Rest easy not drinking it. Jim, it doesn't really hurt until you are throwing up from the pain. Hope you Never Ever get there.
Yep,....kidney stones are pretty freakin' bad news on the pain scale. Thank God I've only had one!!!
Been there, done that. In fact the first time was so much fun I did it a second time. The first one was 2mm and passed within 6 hours of the excruciating pain onslaught. The second was larger and took 3 days. The doc had me scheduled for a Monday appointment to go in and get it but fortunately I passed it on Sunday. Called the docs office Monday morning and told them and they said to keep the appointment and bring in the stone. It was twice the size of the first one and they were showing it around the whole office and exclaiming that they couldn't believe I was able to pass it. I told Judy that wasn't what I wanted to be my 15 minutes of fame.😀 Bob
In my case, the stone will have a short trip.
It takes a BIG man to admit that.😆 Bob
Heck yes they hurt..right up there with broken ribs.
I truly understand the vomit from pain thing, that is 9-10 pain, nothing can describe it except you will cry out to God above. It hit me the first day after neck surgery, I tried to sit up to go pee. The waves of muscle spasms hit like Thor's hammer. I projectile vomited and pee'd myself right in the bed while trying to sit up.
I actually asked the nurses if I was dying and what was happening to me. The pain was mind altering. They assured me it was okay that I had puked all over the floor and they would change my pee soaked bedding. It was a humbling and very scary time of my life.
Being TOTALLY unable to help oneself is humiliating, a, gut wrenching experience that only those that have been there can understand. Now, when procedures hurt, I assure the caretakers I understand, I will endure the procedure as they give me compassionate loving medical care, they do want to help us get better, they truly care for our plight. Unfortunately getting better entails not having fun at times.
I was in awe of the fantastic care I received at Riverside Hospital in Columbus Ohio. The neurosurgery staff was phenomenal in caring for my useless pain wracked carcass. They truly did all they could to ease my recovery with heartfelt COMPASSION for a fellow human being in a time of great incapacitation
I suffered for five days in the hospital and nine days at home before the spasms lessened to less than mind numbing soul altering blinding pain.
Pass it soon and get better.
Hate that for you heard they can be brutal glad nothing more serious though
They are fun.
Some of the most pain I have ever had worse than getting shot or having shrapnel hit you.
I thought I was dying when I had them. I still suffer from them but I kind of make a game out of it.
I hope it doesn't hurt to laugh!
Prayers you get over it quickly.
Frankly, with the pain meds available today, I don't see any reason one should have to experience that kind of pain unless one refuses the meds. The pain med pendulum has swung too far.
Next time I pass a stone, I am going to have it mounted and set in a gold ring.
I feel your pain and hope you a fast pain free recovery
sadly been there done that fist time was 40 some years ago . i noticed I was peeing blood scared me so I went to the ER
after a short time the doc said you have kidney stones they should pass but you should take these pain meds because its going to hurt .. being young and tough I said I'm good Doc I can take it .LOL famous last words of course
well about two night's later I was awakened by the worst pain ever about 1:00 AM I barely could move it hurt so bad , I had only been married less than a year ask my wife to get me to the ER now , and seriously I crawled to the car with unbelievable pain hospital was about 12 miles maybe 15 .from us
as we pulled to the ER door a sudden complete lack of pain just hit ( I think the stone passed thru to another area ) I told my wife lets go home the pain is gone . the doc had given me a strainer to p thru at the first visit .
about two days later at work in a porta potty I could feel a blockage working its way thru it so I used the strainer to catch it , It was about the size of of a bb but all jagged no wonder I was bleeding and it hurt LOL never took it back it they wanted to see what it made of to help me out
after that if a doc said here take these pain pills just in case I took them 😉
I have had a couple more battles with them over the years but the first was by far the worst by miles
Thought I was having a heart attack one Saturday morning. My wife took me to the hospital emergency room and the nurse said she gave me more morphine than she'd been giving cancer patients and it didn't do a thing for relieving the pain. The young trainee emergency room doctor thought it was a heart attack and later an old doctor came walking in took a look at me and said he's got a kidney stone. I expected something the size of a bowling ball to come rolling out when it did but it was as fine as a grain of sand. After it passed there's no more pain just went away. They were going to keep me overnight and I said why I'm not hurting now? I was a bit tired but I felt great due to all the drugs so I went on home.
Wow this has me thinking I should be drinking a LOT more water than I do. 😲
That's one thing I never "get" at the doctor's office. You come in with a broken bone or something cut off and they ask "how bad is the pain, on a scale of one to ten?"
I've had horrific injuries, and never considered them to be near a ten. I mean come on... a ten? Are you kidding me? That would mean it's hurting me to DEATH. I'm not recovering from that pain, much less the injury.
Is that what we're talking here? You'd rather chainsaw the top of your own head off to make the pain stop? That's got me mildly alarmed here. Where's my water glass?
Having had more than my share of stones, they say the pain is comparable to a woman giving birth.
What I can not understand is, that if childbirth is THAT painful, what makes a woman want a SECOND child?
Or more???
Thought I was going to die with the first one.
They can be very bad. Friend just had them, he was in the hospital for a week. They put in some stints that is waiting to get removed.
Just don’t do like what my mother did. She had them but back then they removed them surgically. She kept the stones in a specimen jar that I found cleaning out her room after she passed away. That was gross.
I hate that 1-10 scale too. Back in '87 I was one of three guys that helped drag a fella out of a burning airplane that had crashed. You ever see a guy on fire and still conscious? There's your '10', right there. Ever since then nothing I've experienced even approached a 3.
I thought they could bust them up now with ultrasound?? or am I just having a senior moment???
About 15 years ago one of my co-workers had the ultrasound treatment for his kidney stones. The major pains diminished but for a week he said it felt like he was peeing sandpaper. Bob
Agree Sam, right up there with gs wounds and similar violence that’s been visited upon my body. Not fun. About all I can do for mine when I feel one coming on is hydrate constantly and hope they find their “happy place” and leave me alone for awhile.
Try driving to urgent care at 2:00 a.m. while doubled over and throwing up.
You won't have any problems passing it from you bladder. The real pain comes when it's passing down your ureter. You may feel it passing from your bladder but it'll not be anything like before.
Drink water. The ureter may be irritated for a little while but it'll heal. The issue for you is since your body is producing stones there are probably more in your future.
As bowling ball reference in a thread above. Years ago I was on the mountain guiding Elk hunters and passed one.
I have always referred to it that I thought I was passing a 16 lb bowling ball, covered with course grit sandpaper, but when it went out the end and into the dirt, I have never in my life before or since felt such a feeling on immediate relief.
A week or so later, I told my Dr about it and described it as above, he loudly laughed and said "it wasn't bigger than a grain of sand."
Have never had a reoccurrence and very thankful for that
Mule
I have suffered through 2 episodes of kidney stones. With the current denials and all the hoops you have to endure to get any kind of working pain killers, I learned a long time ago to never throw any of those sort of meds away.
I have a full bottle of legally prescribed __________ for the just in case another one of these hits me.
I posted my last one here a couple years ago. My cat scan showed both kidneys looked like King Solomon's mine! 😕
First one landed me in the ER at 3 am many years ago. After a ten minute stint in the waiting room, feeling like I had to puke, pee, and crap all at the same time. Sweating profusely and trouble breathing from pain, they put me on the fast track to go back. Nurse told me he was giving me two shots, one for the nausea and the other for pain. He injected the first syringe into the IV line and I was praying for relief as I had been doubled over better part of two hours. I intently watched as he only injected half the second one and removed it from the line. I remember screaming "you didn't give me all of it you son of a *". He looked up with a grin and told me that was a flush to keep the tubing from crystalizing. Then comes the cocktail. Twenty minutes later he came back to check on me, I was stoned out of my gourd. Spent three days admitted, unit the urologist sent me home to drink beer and take hydrocodone until it passed. Worst feeling ever, and when it passed the pain leaves like a fart in the breeze.
“sent me home to drink beer and take hydrocodone”
Paul, can I have the name of your doctor?😀
Wife didn't like it. Made me drink water.
I've had them twice. Not fun. Pain is def a 10 or near it. Never been to the doc for them tho.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Well, in my case, the second go round, I'm not sure I would have noticed my head being sawed off. I passed out and it was the only relief I got.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Lord have mercy. Been there done that. HORRIBLE PAIN!! The first time I had an episode I remember laying on the floor in a fetal position in my living room. I was living alone and I tried to get to the phone to do 911 but I couldn't move. I really thought I was dying! After about 30 minutes, I was hoping my dying was going to be quick! I'm serious. Now I look back and it's funny! 😋😂😋
So I do feel for you!
some comedian do not remember which one made a comment . giving birth cant be that bad .
you kick a man in the family jewels real hard and a woman giving birth a year later the lady may be ready to have another kid the fellow well he wants no part of being kicked again ever that sums it up