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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: mrblack on January 06, 2004, 11:23:21 AM
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Anyone here had kidney stones?
I am going in thursday for (Check spelling) lippotrypsy
Am wondering if anyone has had that done?
I will be under general anestiasiea(spelling LOL)
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You do realize that once they put you under, "They" are going to implant a chip so as to keep better track of your location dont you?
There is nowhere you will be able to hide.
I've been trying to dig mine out but I havn't been able to find it yet.
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Worst most painfull thing I have ever lived through.
I spent 5 days in the hospital, on heavy drugs, the strong stuff I can not remeber what it was would wear off after about 6 hours but they would only give it to me every 7 hours so I would get sick and puke from the pain, they would give me Moriphine but it would only last about 15 minutes and I would be hitting that nurse button again.
Like getting kicked in the nuts every 15 minutes for 5 days. lol.
They did not offer any procedures to me... bastages.
The best part? my doctor could not tell me how to prevent them, or give any read advise.... I **** you not all he said is "these things can happen"
The nurse lost the stone so they could not find out what it was made off..
I changed docs right after and have not had another....
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Originally posted by GtoRA2
Worst most painfull thing I have ever lived through.
I spent 5 days in the hospital, on heavy drugs, the strong stuff I can not remeber what it was would wear off after about 6 hours but they would only give it to me every 7 hours so I would get sick and puke from the pain, they would give me Moriphine but it would only last about 15 minutes and I would be hitting that nurse button again.
Like getting kicked in the nuts every 15 minutes for 5 days. lol.
They did not offer any procedures to me... bastages.
The best part? my doctor could not tell me how to prevent them, or give any read advise.... I **** you not all he said is "these things can happen"
The nurse lost the stone so they could not find out what it was made off..
I changed docs right after and have not had another....
Way to allay mrblack's fears, GTO.
LOL!
mrblack, don't read that post above!
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If you want to spell check your post cut it out and paste it to
http://www.spellcheck.net
Then once you have made all the corrections cut it out and repaste it to this BB and post it.
That is if you care.
Kidney stones are not fun. I have not had the pleasure of passing one but a guy I know has and he said it was like dragging a glass covered stick out of your......
welll you get the idea.
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Habu
Are you talking to me? I could care less about spelling most of the time...
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banana,
I am just trying to let him know what he could be in for...
Hmmm well I was going to say I would have wanted to know.... but now I am not so sure... lol
I had no choice really I was in so much pain I had to go to the hospital so knowing would not have changed much...
Mrblack, ignore my first post, is was all good... Good pain killers and hot nurses! I mean it.... really.
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I think he was talking to me LOL.
No worries though .
I just can't believe they are going to have put me under for this.
very risky I think but they say It's better so I wont feel the pain of the procedure and flinch.
Oh and good news I have another dang stone parked in my other kidney:D
Can't waite for it to make it grand entrance into my unrinary tract:mad:
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Originally posted by banana
Way to allay mrblack's fears, GTO.
LOL!
mrblack, don't read that post above!
LOL...no kidding.
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Yeah and imagine I had to live it.
It sucked...
The nurses where not hot either....
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I transported a guy who I was positive had a stone, took him to the hospital, left him in bed. A few hours later we brought another pt in to the same hospital and the stone guy was gone, I asked the nurse if they admitted him, she says "No, he died in surgery about an hour after you left, turns out he had an anurism on his left decending aorta, ruptured and he bled to death."
No point to this, just sharing a story.
Good luck! My dad has had about a dozen stones, found out that Toradol (a non-narcotic, non-steroid anti-inflamitory drug, "nsaid")
WOrkes way better than narc's for the pain. Usualy they are made of calcium, so try cutting back on high calcium laden food like milk. Drink lots, and lots of water,. This will sometimes flush them out before they get big enough to cause pain.
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*chuckles* Yeah, Mr.Black. I've had them never had the proceedure though. But yeah, I've been shot, blown up run the whole gamut of injuries. There's no pain like kidney stone pain.
I've had several episodes over the past 10 years or so, they transported me on the first one. I had no idea what was going on thought I was dying. After that you kinda no what to expect. It's one of those things were even the slightest twinge in a kidney makes you pause mid-step and think.."Oh ***** not again."
My nurse last time I was hospitalized came in and said she'd had seven children through natural childbirth, ie..no painkillers and stones and she'd take childbirth anytime. They say it's much worse for a man then a woman. I actually envy you getting the operation I can't imagine the pain to be worse than having to try to pass them.
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Sundiver!
"Oh ***** not again."
That is SOOO true.. .lol everytime I get a little pain I head for the water cooler and drink like 8 glasses!!
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I have made it part of my daily routine to drink a at least half gallon of water every day for the last few years. I had a stone building for at least that long. As a reaction to a concern about trace blood in urine I underwent a procedure where some sort of sodium dye is injected into the blood and a series of x-rays are taken over a 15 minute period to track the dye as it leaves the blood through the kidneys and is stored in the bladder. The result indicated a stone in right kidney 4 mms in diameter. A year later it passed after growing another 2 mms. The doctor performing the tests remarked how about how large my ureters were. I told him I drank water like a horse in the desert.
I knew it was coming as I awoke one night in a strange discomfort. The pain intensified for a few minutes to where I woke my wife up and told her I was in pain. I rocked back and fourth for a few minutes and the pain subsided and ceased. It wasnt the worst pain Ive ever had but its location was very uncomfortable. I figure thats when the stone began its transition from kidney to bladder. Took about a week for the whole ordeal, and stone, to pass.
My doctor has had stones and he immediately prescribed 30 of Limbaughs little buddies and over the next week I drank at least twenty gallons of water in a drug induced splendor.
One morning I went to pee and noticed a little constriction in flow followed by a very alarming drop of blood and then "PLOP" out that little meteor looking speciman plopped. Was a bit bigger than a BB with a rough and spikey trexture. I was euphoric and I still had a dozen oxycontins left. Im certain that by drinking alot of water daily resulted in a larger than normal ureter diameter which allowed a 6mm stone to pass with relatively little discomfort.
Thats my K-Stone story. If you have a predisposition for stones then drink LOTS of water Now and keep doing it.
Good luck
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And yeah, they gave me a combo of Toradol and Nubain last time, seems the Toradol helps increase the effects of the narcotics. Now I hate IV's but oh man when that pain went away.
Yeager, Oxycontin must be some good stuff if you were able to pass a 6mm stone at home.
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Sundiver, In my experience, oxycontin is the most pleasurable euphoric drug I have taken. There is no doubt that the oxycontin made it a very less painful experience for me. No doubt.
On a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the least pain) I never went past a 3 after the initial episode of waking up in the middle of the night, without any pain meds. That little episode was a 8 on the pain scale.
Definately, if pain is headed your way, get to a doctor and get some oxycontin.
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Hmm...lots better stories than mine. I had them about 6 yrs ago. They diagnosed me and gave me some morphine, sent me home to pass them. I never even noticed when I passed them they were so small. But the pain that night....oh Lord I'll never forget that, was like having a knife in your guts being twisted while someone kicked you in the kidneys for good measure. My wife and I had gone to a large dinner that night at a great steakhouse.
The pain caused such nausea that the great herkin' 25 oz Texas T-Bone that I'd consumed came up with some beans, taters, whiskey and everything else I'd eaten or drank in the last 5 years. What a miserable night. I thought it was a bad flu until the wife had had enough and took me into ER...
Speaking of which...I have to arrange gall bladder surgery now. Anyone have any info on that?
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My father had them cut out... must be 30 years ago now. IIRC, they put him completely under and his recovery was under a week (couple days in the hospital).
Still has the scar - other than that, cant lend any personal experience.
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Good luck, mrblack. I've had two kidney stones 20 years apart. The first was quick and mercifully brief. Was going to take daughter back to college, but got a pain I couldn't believe or relieve.
Wound up on the bedroom floor in fetal position for awhile, then went to the bathroom and (thank heaven) passed it. Ugly little thing like a bumpy bb. Drove the daughter to college, took the stone to doc Monday, and stone was confirmed.
Probable cause was thought to be drinking too much milk, or milkshakes, or ice cream, so cut that back, but found after the second stone 20 years later nobody yet knows what really causes kidney stones.
Second stone was more gradual misery. Was heading for beach, had to turn around and go to an emergency room. Tests confirmed the stone, fairly large, and I got that zapper machine that you may be referring to.
Not many around. Fortunate to have one at Walter Reed in D.C. Was scheduled to go in the morning the terrorists slammed the airliner into the Pentagon, but I hadn't stopped my aspirin therapy for the required week, so I had delayed appointment.
A week later I went in, had the procedure, was out in half a day. Procedure was painless, but ... still had to pass the stone fragments! That hurt as much as a regular kidney stone, but after a couple painful bouts, the frags were all finally gone and the relief was worth whatever treatment was necessary.
I had been given given oxycontin in the interim, but the only one I took made me so nauseated (worst barfing I can remember in years) I never took another.
Kidney stones elicit a lot of sympathy, and rightly so. As the saying goes, with a kidney stone you are not dying, but wish you were.
As others have said, drinking lots of water seems to be best therapy, although you have to pee all the time. Better flushed than crushed with stone pain, that's for sure. Best of luck, you'll be all fixed soon.
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My boss Bill Knapp used to tell me, "Don't let those surgeons near you with a knife."
Les
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a few years back my little brother had them. they told him that thay could break them up with ultra-sound, but since he had no insurance they gave him a pain perscription and sent him on his way.
he stayed with us for about a week while they passed. never seen him cry from physical pain before that (since he was a kid anyway).
he said "it feels like pissing a handfull of diamonds"
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shreck me, they never tell you about these things. I'm going to drink loads of water from now on. I know pain after being circumcized at 15, but I'm not keen on having to compare that to kidney stones. Water cooler here I come...
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Well good news I gave birth to a baby kidney stone last night.
4.5mm .
It was rather odd looking and rubbery?
But I don't have to have the procedure and thats good.
Bad thing they found another one in my right kidney LOL.
Oh well maybe it will take it's time and give me some rest :aok
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Originally posted by Yeager
I have made it part of my daily routine to drink a at least half gallon of water every day for the last few years. I had a stone building for at least that long. As a reaction to a concern about trace blood in urine I underwent a procedure where some sort of sodium dye is injected into the blood and a series of x-rays are taken over a 15 minute period to track the dye as it leaves the blood through the kidneys and is stored in the bladder. The result indicated a stone in right kidney 4 mms in diameter. A year later it passed after growing another 2 mms. The doctor performing the tests remarked how about how large my ureters were. I told him I drank water like a horse in the desert.
I knew it was coming as I awoke one night in a strange discomfort. The pain intensified for a few minutes to where I woke my wife up and told her I was in pain. I rocked back and fourth for a few minutes and the pain subsided and ceased. It wasnt the worst pain Ive ever had but its location was very uncomfortable. I figure thats when the stone began its transition from kidney to bladder. Took about a week for the whole ordeal, and stone, to pass.
My doctor has had stones and he immediately prescribed 30 of Limbaughs little buddies and over the next week I drank at least twenty gallons of water in a drug induced splendor.
One morning I went to pee and noticed a little constriction in flow followed by a very alarming drop of blood and then "PLOP" out that little meteor looking speciman plopped. Was a bit bigger than a BB with a rough and spikey trexture. I was euphoric and I still had a dozen oxycontins left. Im certain that by drinking alot of water daily resulted in a larger than normal ureter diameter which allowed a 6mm stone to pass with relatively little discomfort.
Thats my K-Stone story. If you have a predisposition for stones then drink LOTS of water Now and keep doing it.
Good luck
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"Limbaughs little buddies"
LOL! Great story, thanks for sharing it.
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Originally posted by Dowding
shreck me, they never tell you about these things. I'm going to drink loads of water from now on. I know pain after being circumcized at 15, but I'm not keen on having to compare that to kidney stones. Water cooler here I come...
Not that its any of my business, my why on Gods earth were you circumsized at age 15 !?
{Are you sure they didn't just cut off excess skin around your neck? :rofl :p }
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Congrats, mrblack, glad you passed that kidney stone and dodged the surgery. Hopefully the other stone will pass too.
Apparently if people were x-rayed for kidney stones routinely, many more people would be surprised to know they have them.
The idea seems to be to let nature do its thing and not go looking for trouble until the carrier starts having problems.
Makes sense to me. Gotta be alert, but no sense fretting prematurely. Meanwhile, keep up the water consumption, but even with that, be careful not to overdo it. Like anything else, stories pop up now and then about someone drinking too much water.
Everything in moderation and balance, right? If we only knew exactly what that balance is.
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Rofl, a bunch of grown men congratulating each other for giving birth to a kidney stone.
I gave birth to a big log of crap today.
Aww, what the hell. Congrats mrblack. :D
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Originally posted by Tarmac
Rofl, a bunch of grown men congratulating each other for giving birth to a kidney stone.
I gave birth to a big log of crap today.
Aww, what the hell. Congrats mrblack. :D
A spitting image of you I'm sure LOL J/K:aok
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Actually, I'm wondering if it takes after you. Ya see, the big guy was all corny, kinda like your joke. :p
Glad everything worked out ok for you though.
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I don't know what's worse, the past few posts...or the fact I'm still laughing my bellybutton off to them :p :lol :rofl
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If a post by me suddenly appears and it seems to not be finished ignore it lol
Musta pressed wrong key when nephew sent me a ms message lol
Just saying hope all's well etc
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Very funny Ripsnort. It was fashionable to be Jewish at that time. ;)