So i have kidney stones
 

First of all **** kidney stones. Second of all why do I have to deal with this third I went almost 2 days without eating fourth I had to deal with the fact that I had to wait nine hours till i got checked on but the good thing is I'm on the mend. Also I get to watch the chiefs game without using my time off time.

You pass it yet? How's your back feel?

Flomax will do the trick.

back fine now but trying to focus back on being me again. flomax i should try that.

I use Flomax it can help. Worth trying.

God, I feel for ya. Had them last year myself. Wound up in the emergency room. Passed them so all was well, but it made it a big PITA to get my FAA Medical.

Watch your corn hole bud

I've had two. Those are no fun. The last one I passed. I had to shout it out using karate kiai. It came out with such force that it chipped the ceramic of the commode I used. That stone was about the size of a .22 bullet.

I typically grab some pure cranberry juice from like a hippie grocery store and cut it with some water to help with the UI track infection that you'll probably get. Yeah it's bitter as hell but it works out really well.

I never had any myself but I hear they are painful as ****. I know my buddy got/gets them all the time. I believe it was from his eating habits which I don't think have changed.

My dad had them, my brother had them and my cousin had them. I've never had one. Knock on wood! Get better, nut!

My wife has had 2 kids and 2 kidney stones. She would tell you that kidney stones are much worse in terms of pain.

I have had to have 2 of them removed, I wasn't able to pass them. Last one I pulled my own stint out (Dr told me I could, or I could do an office visit and have him do it). That is not something to do if you are faint of heart. Pulling a 5-6' rope from your "pee hole" is not fun.

Couple shots of pure lemon juice a day till no issues and then weekly will help.

Quit dark soda and tea. Drink more water too.

Oh man, I feel for you. I had some 6 years ago and had to hit the ER to have them removed. They were not going to pass on their own. I was on a business trip in Baltimore and ended up in some 3rd world country shit hole hospital. I woke up and had blood rolling out my Johnson. The hack doctor had botched the operation.

I flew home and had to go to the local hospital and have them go in for round two. This doc got them, but I woke up and had about two inches of plastic tubing hanging out of my Johnson.

Turns out it had to be there to help the flow or something, until things healed, can't remember exactly. I went in about a week later for a follow up and was informed I had to pull it out myself at home. I asked the doc if I should pull it out slowly, or give it a crank, like I'm starting a lawn mower. He said do it slow.



I got home, took some Advil, waited an hour and went to work on it. 24 inches later, it was out. Not a great experience to say the least.

I had to have mine surgically removed too. Ever since then I “got religion” about water. And drink it constantly so it never happens again

When they pulled my stint I started crying. Needed a towel so I could keep crying into it. I think I’ve cried about 3-4x in life and that was one

You have my sympathy sir. Drink lots of water and cut out the soft drinks!

My wife has had 4 removal procedures for stones this year.

When she went in to get stint removed the nurses were late because they were doing the same for another patient before her. Wife said the guy was screaming and sounded like someone was being violently murdered.

When nurse came in she apologized for the delay but they had to pull in the entire staff to help subdue the guy while his was being removed. He had apparently been molested as a child and was having extreme PTSD from having the stint removed.

Was this guy you??

“stent”.

It was Prison Bitch. Obviously.

You must have had a stint in the urology or cardiology department.

If you’re a candidate, use lithotripsy. You get sedation, 4000 shocks and (most importantly) no stent.

Efficacy is about 85%. Unless your stone burden is high you need percutaneous neph procedure. But unless you need that and your not in danger of going septic, it’s lithotripsy all the way.

A little stint here, a little stint there…

So, why do people get kidney stones? I've never had one myself. Is it drinking too much pop or energy drinks or something like that?

Sometimes it hereditary. Sometimes infection. Sometimes it’s too much green leafy type foods. The introduction of high fructose corn syrup into everything is another cause. But folks simply don’t hydrate enough. Especially since the pandemic. Water fountains were closed and going everywhere in a mask didn’t exactly make it easy to get enough water through the day.

Stone analysis is usually done on the fragments to determine type. After that, consultation with your physician can give insight into your diet and what to avoid.

Sooo....drink lots of water to avid kidney stones. Got it.

I put stint because that was how bitch had it and didn't want to confuse him.

Nut isn’t a woman, so bawan’s tale is probably closest to what the poor bastard is experiencing. The object of the game, is to get the stone out of the channel of our our friends cock. However, sometimes said stones are covered with barbs, that don’t exactly pass out as smoothly as one would wish. Here is where the pain becomes excruciatingly worse.
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Medications can cause it as well. My wife's blood pressure medicine was causing her kidneys to dump too much calcium which caused her stones.

High sodium diet can cause this as well. But usual suspects are tea and soda.

Ironically I encountered mine trying to get healthier. I had drank 2 of the 2 liter bottles of mountain dew per day for about 20 years. Decided to give it up and started drinking Gatorade and water.

During the rehydration and sort of re inflation of my kidneys, it dislodged a stone while I was at work.

I had gone to the restroom before the stabbing pain started, and I thought I was having a diabetic problem, because it looked like I was pissing pure sugar.

It turned out to be a sort of sand related to this, and when I went back into the truck to resume unloading, the constant twisting and turning finally dislodged the stone and it felt like a knife in my back being dragged and twisted.

I was pale, sweaty, couldn't get a good deep breath, and my boss who was so a good friend was asking me questions and I told him about pissing what looked Ike sugar earlier, and he told me it was a kidney stone and that I should go to the ER.

Well my no Insurance having ass didn't go, and I had to pass that ****er at home. Most painful 8 hours of my life.

Damn, this thread is scary. Drink more water, folks. Less soda.

Nut have you tried drinking some Mt Dew Rise for immunity and focus??

Dealt with this about 3 years ago and it was just awful. Worst pain I've ever experienced in my life.

Had a woman tell me it was worse for her than giving birth.

Don’t take drinking water for granite

High fructose corn syrup is one of the biggest causes of oxalate buildup, that's true. But there's more to it than that, especially if somebody is pre-disposed to getting them. You should see the list they gave my wife - it's pretty long.

My urologist (male) refers to it as “childbirth for men”


I didn’t know what was happening to me as I’d never heard of a kidney stone. I had increasing pain in my nuts and I thought I might have Louie Aguilar ball cancer. When it hit me I was rolling face down in our master bath puking like a dog. My 4 year old came in and I thought “imma gonna f**img die in front of my kid”

Rushed to ER. Doc said it’s a kidney stone, they get several a week in there. Hit me with morphine, I started to fall asleep and BAM. Screaming my head off, 3 male nurses pinning me to the bed.

It’s indescribable

Do you eat a lot of cheese? That is what I found out to be my reason for da stones. I have been in serious pain twice from these kidney stones. The first time I really thought, well this is it. Something has failed internally and I'm toast. That's how bad the pain was. After 12 hours I went to the ER at 3 am and these mother ****ers made me wait until 8 am before they took me in. There was just me and some elderly lady in a wheel chair in the waiting room. They did a scan and told me I had da stones. Gave me a prescription that made the pain go away almost instantly. I passed the stone the next morning. Warm water makes the pain go away. The second time I knew what to do. Jump in the bathtub in as warm of water as you can handle. The pain goes away with the heat and I believe breaks in down so (in my case) it passes quickly. The most pain I have ever been it. I don't eat pizzas anymore. It's not worth it. :thumb:

Do you want piss sand? Because that's how you get piss sand.

ROFL

No, it is to avoid dark soda and tea.

I have ask pretty much all of my chronic kidney stone patients what specialist have recommended to avoid them and for some it just doesn’t matter and it gets to a point they don’t even feel them , I see one girl mid 30s every few months the most I have counted in 1 visit was 7 stones all stacked up in the ureter up to 1.5 cm and she felt no pain.

I felt like a pussy passing my 2mm stone lol .

Drinking water was the one thing I heard the most , also heard drinking more beer but not sure how official that recommendation is.

Yikes. The dreaded steinstrasse (stonestreet). I’ve seen those take up the entire mid/distal ureter.

The human ureters are pretty amazing. Average of 3mm circumference I’ve seen stones as large 2.3cm in circumference formed in them. Crazy stuff.

If you have chronic stones, especially if they're large or have consistently gotten larger since you first started having them, ask your doctor to make sure your calcium levels are normal. It's not common but in some cases it's not because of anything you're doing, your body is just betraying you like a no-good rat bastard.

I had a guy with one over 2.5 and I think I must of asked him “are you sure you are not feeling any pain” so often he was definitely looking at me like I was a little crazy , I think it was a f/u post lithotripsy.

Water water water!!!!!

****, this thread is terrifying (as I get a glass of water)

It’s worse than gout, trust me.

Is it worse than pancreatitis? That shit is worse than death.

I never had pancreatitis, but somebody told me it’s worse than gout lol. The individual never had kidney stones to compare. I have heard terrible things about pancreatitis.

I don't fear much, but two of my uncommon, weird fears would be:

1. Having to pass a kidney stone

2. Sink holes.

Yes. Yes it is.

Hopefully I never get a stone. If it's even half as bad as pancreatitis it is too much. If more painful than pancreatitis then death might be better option.

I think kidney stones might be slightly more acute but pancreatitis to me would seem more constant both suck for different reasons, stone pain tends to come in waves so you get a bit of a break but might be harder to control with meds , morphine didn’t really help me at all , never had pancreatitis though so absolutely just guessing and every case is different but by far the worst pain I ever had was nerve pain constant/acute/no relief.

Remove the kidneys. No kidneys. No kidney stones. Haha

Well then, I should be good. I drink a lot of water and a lot of beer. :D

I just happened to see an article about stones with a pic of one under a microscope.

Feast your eyes.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FA8shxjWEAojtd5.jpg


My wife has given birth 3 times, a couple of ectopic pregnancies, but kidney stones were the worst thing she has ever went through. The drive to the ER sucked.

Had it for the first time in the spring. Had it during the middle of school.
Had to leave my classroom and students mid-period. Brutal. As STaylor said, worst pain of my life. They gave me morphine and it did nothing. If it really is as bad as childbirth than good bless women everywhere. Feeling for you.

I've had kidney stones twice. First time wasn't bad. Wasn't sure what happened. Back just felt funny. Felt like I had to pee big time. Did. Something did not feel right. But it passed. Second time. Got the same wierd feeling in lower back. Much worse symptoms. Much worse. Took a couple-three days to pass. Brutal. Passsed in a blood clot. Wierd feeling. But glad it was over. Didn't dig the stone out of the blood clot, but would be surprised if it had words on it when looked at under the microscope. But that image is what is suspected it looked like on it's travels from my kidneys to my bladder. Pure torture!!!

Driving myself to the ER wasn’t a smart choice.

Ya, i had to have one removed. It was so intense that i actually passed out from the pain at one point. Or so im told.

Feel for ya, bud.

OMFG

How in the hell?

My wife was curled up in a ball screaming and moaning the 35 minute drive up (we live in BFE).

3:30 in the morning no less. :eek:

My situation was exactly the same, I was curled up screaming but around 2 AM while my wife drove to the ER

Sounds about right , only 4 min drive though after waking up the wife to confirm that me pacing around the room at 1am looked like kidney stone she didn’t seem to interested in getting out of bed , Hippocratic oath doesn’t extend to husbands apparently.

Having shitty teeth and the fear of kidney stones (horror stories from coworkers) was enough to make me give up the sugar water.

shit but i drink tea to not drink soda. i don't like water. plus the drink mix i like is hard to find.

I don't get how people "don't like water". My wife says this shit all the time and uses it as justification for drinking gallons of sugar water.

Uhhhhh then what do you expect to happen?

Don't like water? LMAO Over 60% of your body is water. Don't hate yourself, nut. Try one of those water flavor things where you put a couple drops of fruit flavor in it. You gotta drink enough daily water, it's incredibly important.

Learn to like it or you're gonna be pissing boulders the rest of your life. Pass a couple more of them kidney stones and there won't be much left of your dick to jerk off.

Pancreatitis is much worse than gout and very different.
I've had both, pancreatitis once from too much alcohol and gout about 8-9 times.

Gout is prolonged burning pain and inability to get rid of it. It's like having shards of glass lodged in your joints. Mine has been on toes, elbow and ankle at different flareups.

Pancreatitus is a mother ****er of sudden incredible pain that cuts across your abdomen for 30-60 seconds, feels like someone is twisting your upper GI into knots, takes your breath away, made me cry, and then goes away only to repeat this numerous times per hour for 16-28 hours. Your pancreas goes through spasms.

I don't want or need to get stones for comparison. I'll take everone's word on the pain.

Pancreatitis was a 15 on a 1-10 scale. I never want that again, ever. Not even for $5,000,000

I drink a gallon of water a day. No way I’m risking this.

What are you referring to, soda or tea?

Foods and beverage that are high in oxalate can lead to the formation of calcium oxalate stones, which are the majority of stone types. Leafy greens, tea, and chocolate all contain high levels of oxalate.

I've had them three times. I never found Flomax to be terribly effective, and some of its side effects suck.

Increased water intake and decreasing soda and tea consumption as SupDock mentioned, is the best course of action.

Oh shit.

Be careful pal.

Big nasty jack off shoot neoghbors dog dead across road.

You can’t leave ammo in that cannon.


Now joke over…everyone I know that’s had these says they’re awful. I’ve see some tough dudes crawling on the floor with them.

i don't think i have anymore but pooped enough time to power me to belize. i feel so tired.

I've had two kidney stones the past decade myself. Painful things, those are. Had to go to the ER for morphine to pass them both times.

In my 20s and 30s I had on average one kidney stone per year. Passed them all. Painful.

Stopped drinking soda…

My kidney stones were less frequent, but much larger! Couldn’t pass em. Lithotripsy and stents. Terrible!

Went back on soda, and now they’re smaller again.

Doc said I’d have fewer as I got older as the kidneys naturally filter less well and it’s true! Probably one every 5 years now.

I’ll take it!

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