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Passed my first Kidney stone this week
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May 11, 2024, 9:05 AM
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if this is what childbirth feels like, we should have been extinct years ago.
Anyway, glad it was 'just' a kidney stone. As bad as they are, they come and go.
Happy Saturday!
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Re: Passed my first Kidney stone this week
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Feb 20, 2013, 2:57 PM
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I had one but they ultracsounded it. My Dr. has a female frend w several children who tells her passing the sone in worth than giving birth.
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Re: Passed my first Kidney stone this week
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May 11, 2024, 9:31 AM
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Congratulations on your first stone. Been there and done that. Not fun. Hopefully it’s the only one you ever pass.🤞
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Re: Passed my first Kidney stone this week
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May 11, 2024, 9:41 AM
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WELCOME to the club of all those who live in the valley of the shadow. Be forewarned never compare kidney stone pain with childbirth pain within the hearing range of a woman who has birthed a child. It will not go well with you. As a male it is the worse pain I have ever experienced and unspeakable joy when you see your stone at the bottom of the toilet bowl. Glad it has passed for you and hope this is your only visitation of these little spiky shaped pain delivery surprises of life. I have had three over my 71 years.
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Re: Passed my first Kidney stone this week
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May 11, 2024, 9:42 AM
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Passed about 5 or 6 since my late 20s. I’m 73 and just had 3 (2 on one side) all were lodged and they were laserd. A stint was placed in my kidneys and went down through my bladder and “out” the rest of the way. Not fun….wouldn’t wish on anyone. Good luck to you!
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Yep. When it is so bad that you have to
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May 11, 2024, 9:46 AM
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throw up because of it, that’s a special kind of pain.
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Passed them 19 years ago
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May 11, 2024, 10:12 AM
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Lawd have mercy!! The only relief was Cranberry & Vodka, till the antibiotics kicked in.
One of my friend's wife had both of their children, with no drugs, and when she got kidney stones, she said it was the most painful thing in her life, worse than child birth.
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I woke up about 4am and it felt like I'd been shot in the lower back with a 45.
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May 11, 2024, 10:35 AM
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Went into the bathroom and dry-heaved from pain. My (ex)wife tried to help me down the stairs and we ended up at the bottom in a pile. I crawled into the back seat of the car screaming for her to go, go, go to the hospital because I'm dying. I had no clue what was going on. I stumbled through the Emergency Room doors yelling for someone to please help me...
I'll never forget the older black nurse with grey hair calmly saying "it's probably a kidney stone".
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Re: I woke up about 4am and it felt like I'd been shot in the lower back with a 45.
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May 12, 2024, 10:58 PM
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I was in my home office. Walked down the hallway to take a leak. Five steps later and I was a heap at the top of the steps. Wife couldn't understand why I was screaming tomgk.tomthe hospital. The only pain I've had that compares was when I had my back fusion. They fused my l5 s1 vertebrae with a cage, two rods and some screws. The next morning, the nurses told me to get up. I was going.to use the walker and walk the hallway. There was a commotion, which I lost. After much cursing and screaming, I showed my ### that day, I can tell you. Do not EVER want to go through that again.
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Have passed 2 over the years, not fun!***
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May 11, 2024, 10:36 AM
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Re: Have passed 2 over the years, not fun!***
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May 11, 2024, 11:27 AM
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PSA: Had one in each kidney lithotripsed into small pieces last fall. They had grown too big to pass and never moved so no pain to speak of. But.....the reason they formed turned out to be high blood calcium levels caused by a faulty parathyroid. Seeing a surgeon in July to discuss removing it. We have 4 of them. So far no real symptoms from the parathyroid but over time it can cause kidney stones and brittle bones, especially for women.
PS: High calcium in the blood means it's leaching from bones.
Wrong board I know.
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Re: Passed my first Kidney stone this week
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May 11, 2024, 11:42 AM
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Went to the emergency in Atlanta at 1:30 AM on March 13 ...... all the symptoms of when I had a 12mm stone in 2008 that was lithotripsied. They did a ll the CT scans, morphine, and a few other injections and the docvtor confirmed it was a 5mm stone ..... size of a popcorn kernel. Prescribed a pain killer, but wound up taking only three of those pills and Flowmax to dialate the urinary track. Said I would pass it in 3 - 5 days. Also gave me a strainer to pee through. On the 7th day morning, I was going to call, my urologist here in Greenville and suddenly that morning a dark colored stone popped out. No indication or pain to alert me it was about to pass. It was smooth unlike some of the calcium stones that look like sand spurs. No fun for sure!
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Had my first, and hopefully only one when I was only 15 years old. No idea what
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May 11, 2024, 12:48 PM
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caused it, but it felt like a barbed boulder was moving around my bladder until it finally plinked into the toilet, and was merely a black speck that looked like a miniature cockleburr. How the heck could something that small cause so much pain?
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Re: Passed my first Kidney stone this week
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May 11, 2024, 12:59 PM
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In 2004 I had one. I had to have lithotripsy to bust it up. We went to fatz cafe that night to eat cause it was Valentine’s. I got home and the first wave hit me and it was pretty mild. It went away for a few minutes and came back worse but not terrible. It quit for a min then came back the third time and I immediately became the biggest wuss you’ve ever seen. I thought I was gonna tough it out and that lasted about an hour then my butt went to the ER. I’ve broken my arms 4 times with two metal plates in my left arm and have had stitches countless times and none of that would even hold a candle to kidney stone pain. I don’t wish that stuff on my worst enemies.
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Re: Passed my first Kidney stone this week
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May 11, 2024, 1:10 PM
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Mine started at night too after dinner and I became nauseous, so my fist thought was food poisoning (which is almost never the case). I threw up a little and as the night went on the pain in the stomach started moving around toward my side and back. I then knew exactly what is was.
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Re: Passed my first Kidney stone this week
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May 11, 2024, 2:57 PM
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Yep. That’s how mine started. I forgot about that part. I thought something I ate had tore my stomach up. Oh was I wrong.
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Re: Passed my first Kidney stone this week
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May 12, 2024, 8:47 PM
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As a lady who has experienced both (one with a failed epidural), I can tell you a kidney stone is worse. By far
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Re: Passed my first Kidney stone this week
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May 11, 2024, 1:59 PM
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Ive had 4 of them 
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Re: Passed my first Kidney stone this week
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May 11, 2024, 2:18 PM
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Just think, there are plenty of people walking around with stones who don't even have a clue. Until the time comes and ....OUCH.
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Had a kidney stone in 2008 and suprisingly none since
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May 11, 2024, 2:28 PM
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But have also had a couple of cases of bad gout in foot. Stones and gout are a result of uric acid buildup. Weird that the stone was a sharp pain in my lower right back for a couple of days, then suddenly disappeared after I passed it. Never had pain leave instantly like that. The gout took about a week to completely ease up.
Had to cut back on red meat and sweet tea, which was hard to do and seemed unAmerican. Who doesn't love burgers and hotdogs and sweet tea? Also had to drink more water since my acid buildups were in the summer when I was getting dehydrated. I try to drink enough water to where the urine isn't yellow.
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Re: Passed my first Kidney stone this week
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May 11, 2024, 2:37 PM
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Had one when I was 17 years old and it was the worst pain I've ever felt. Luckily I haven't had one since
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Re: Passed my first Kidney stone this week
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May 11, 2024, 3:23 PM
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Sorry! I don't wish that on anyone.
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Re: Passed my first Kidney stone this week
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May 12, 2024, 7:21 PM
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Sitting in the emergency room I was contemplating if 16 years of drinking sweet tea, which I love, was worth a night of terrible pain and another week of a little inconvenience. I haven't decided yet and until then I and drinking half and half!
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Passed multiple couple months back. Worst pain of my life and wasnt close.
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May 12, 2024, 8:44 PM
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There is no way to describe the pain. Thank God for drugs.
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I have had nine kidney stones. Two scoped.
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May 12, 2024, 8:46 PM
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The real pain is when it moves from the kidney to the bladder. Finally passing a stone is one of the greatest things that will ever happen to you. I would not wish a kidney stone on my worst enemy.
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Re: Passed my first Kidney stone this week
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May 12, 2024, 9:04 PM
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I used to work with a guy who had them frequently. By frequently, I mean about 4 a year for the first couple of years I knew him, then it got real bad and he was having as many as 3-4 per month. Poor guy would be on his knees in pain at work and his wife would have to drive him to the doctor. They have never been able to figure out why he has so many but I believe it has slowed down some for him again. His dad had multiple stones but not nearly as many so they do think there may be some hereditary effect. I’ve been very fortunate to have never had one but I just can’t imagine what this guy goes through. I’ve seen them put some strong men on their knees.
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