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Offline Eagler

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« on: July 31, 2003, 02:27:46 PM »
had my first one this morning - woke me up about 5am

got to enjoy it until about 8:30 - when it finally passed

if one female nurse said "now you know what we go through to have a baby"  - ten said it.
everytime I turned around, one was telling me that crap.

the good news is they said if you have one, more than likely you'll have more -- can't wait.
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« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2003, 02:29:25 PM »
I feel your pain. I've had 2. 10 years apart almost to the day. Getting close to the next one...cripes.
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« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2003, 02:30:58 PM »
Thanks to military spending on research and development, it is now an outpatient procedure.
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« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2003, 02:33:08 PM »
Yea, well I'll tell ya women who have had children and a kidney stone tell me they'd rather have a kid anyday. I've had two myself and now I walk around with a bottle of water everyday.

Last time I had a stone got a cystoscopy procedure 3 times within a week. Man that sux.
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« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2003, 02:35:58 PM »
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Thanks to military spending on research and development, it is now an outpatient procedure.


Military?  Can you expand on this?
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« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2003, 02:36:49 PM »
Just be glad it only hit you for a few hours then passed.  I had one that took 48 hours to make its way to freedom.  Damn narcotics did NOTHING to help that pain.
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« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2003, 02:39:19 PM »
I spend 5 days in the hospital with one, lol, doped up on morpine and coden, then the pain was gone and a BB sized thingy was in my Pee strainer... that was about 8 years ago and I have not had one since... BUT MY GOD... the pain was terible.
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« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2003, 02:42:03 PM »
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Military?  Can you expand on this?


The procedure used to break up stones was first developed by the military. It once required surgery and an overnight stay.
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« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2003, 02:47:52 PM »
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The procedure used to break up stones was first developed by the military. It once required surgery and an overnight stay.


Did the military develop this procedure as a result of developing some unrelated technology, or were they purposely trying?  What is the procedure?
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« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2003, 02:51:04 PM »
The name of the procedure I got a few years ago was 'lithotripsy' if memory serves.  I got a spinal, then I was submerged in a stainless steel hot tub, and then shocked the stone to grains with focused sound waves.  Probably some sort of sonar offshoot.  

Peed in a strainer for a few days to weigh the debris, no overnite in the hospital, but I stayed in the hotel across from the hospital so I could go in to get checked the next morning.
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« Reply #10 on: July 31, 2003, 02:52:08 PM »
Dunno, saw it on discovery, they didn't get into specifics. I can only guess it might be used as a weapon to extract someone out of a bunker. If they can aim it on a stone, a shot to someone's brain in that bunker might persuade them to come out. Or just kill them. They didn't say what the military used it for though, I can just guess.
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« Reply #11 on: July 31, 2003, 02:58:18 PM »
cc, was just curious.  McGroin, define "got a spinal".
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« Reply #12 on: July 31, 2003, 03:04:07 PM »
They inject a drug into your spine and all goes numb from there down.
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« Reply #13 on: July 31, 2003, 03:16:13 PM »
Ug.  Sorry I asked.  No more medical talk, I am getting queezy.  :eek:
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« Reply #14 on: July 31, 2003, 03:35:59 PM »
I guess Kidney stone are Renal Calculi ?

If so the Nurse lied :)  according to my wife it easier to give birth (2 time in her case) than supporting a "kidnay stone"
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