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Offline mrblack

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« on: January 06, 2004, 11:23:21 AM »
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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« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2004, 11:26:45 AM »
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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I had one about 5 years ago.
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2004, 11:32:23 AM »
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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Re: I had one about 5 years ago.
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2004, 11:49:38 AM »
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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....



Way to allay mrblack's fears, GTO.

LOL!

mrblack, don't read that post above!

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« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2004, 11:50:01 AM »
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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« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2004, 12:23:25 PM »
Habu
 Are you talking to me?  I could care less about spelling most of the time...

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« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2004, 12:25:16 PM »
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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« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2004, 12:28:01 PM »
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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Re: Re: I had one about 5 years ago.
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2004, 12:49:16 PM »
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Way to allay mrblack's fears, GTO.

LOL!

mrblack, don't read that post above!


LOL...no kidding.
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« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2004, 01:13:41 PM »
Yeah and imagine I had to live it.

It sucked...

The nurses where not hot either....

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« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2004, 01:47:16 PM »
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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« Reply #11 on: January 06, 2004, 01:59:38 PM »
*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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« Reply #12 on: January 06, 2004, 02:09:29 PM »
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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« Reply #13 on: January 06, 2004, 02:13:16 PM »
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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« Reply #14 on: January 06, 2004, 02:16:49 PM »
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.