Kidney stone-OMG!!!
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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mrs102: 31515757824027/comments/31515759391899
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.
Try driving to urgent care at 2:00 a.m. while doubled over and throwing up.
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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.
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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
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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! 😕
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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 bitch". 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.
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“sent me home to drink beer and take hydrocodone”
Paul, can I have the name of your doctor?😀
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Wife didn't like it. Made me drink water.
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I've had them twice. Not fun. Pain is def a 10 or near it. Never been to the doc for them tho.
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Nanuq907: 31515757824027/comments/31515769484699
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?
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.
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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!
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pickenup: 31515757824027/comments/31515745778459
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.
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
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I've had a Kidney Stone, and I've also taken more than one shot to the Family Jewels. Pretty tough to say which I would rather have again.
I'm personally requesting "Thank You Sir, I'll pass on both. All good here."
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One thing is, if I get another one, I’ll pretty muck know what’s happening. The hydrocodone is squirreled away in the gun safe for the future, if needed.
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Had them 4 times. Last time they analyzed one and found out what kind of stone it was. I take a Potassium Citrate pill twice a day and havent had a stone since. Had to raise the pH of my urine I guess. Two tipss to ER I dont forget the pill. Had several surgerys and part of my lip removed, nothing like the pain of a kidney stone passing.
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dreher: 31515757824027/comments/31515748591259
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!
This is an accurate description.
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Had them three time. Always got too big to pass before diagnosed so they've had to take them out.
Last go round told young urologists that the water here is extra hard -- like HS chem teacher ran tap water through a distiller and it still had so much lime it was still buffered. He just laughed and said maybe he'd set up practice in right spot.
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OK :
Had one many years back when was living in Tucson ,mil dropped me @ a e.r. , a few yours later ? no relief , still waiting on help from a Dr. ? ,got up and walked out : went home to suffer it out !
Worse pain ever !!!!! Dangit !!!!
Thanks !!!
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