Kidney stones

Well that sucks....

 

Ever had the doctor go up your pee hole while awake with nurse standing there to remove the stint from bladder to kidney he installed when he went up your pee hole to remove the stones 2 weeks before. Wow, talk about the bloody pee.

 

Getting my catheter removed wasn't exactly fun times.......

 

I guess, I didn't get it. My understanding is if you had chicken pox you got the shingles virus just lurking, waiting..ready to strike when you least expect it.

 

Just reading up on it. It won't prevent it, but makes it more bearable

 

Oxycontin made it bearable.

 

Christ. I had an outie before I started reading this thread but it has now turned into an innie... F me....

 

Wow! Good thing you didn't have Hemorrhoids too! LOL

 

Some tubes are tinier than others

 

Bump.

Pain started 2 months ago, but wasnt crazy bad. Intermittent lower back pain turned into a burning urinary infection. Went to the clinic and got that resolved with antibiotic. Sent me to get a CT scan and they found a 4mm stone. Started taking flomax. Had intermittent piercing groin pain for a few weeks.

They said it was still in my ureter during the scan so i thought the worst of the pain was still to come, but this popped out this morning. What a relief. I hope that was the only one.

I was chugging water. Carried around a 1 gallon jug everywhere for weeks. Mixed in lots of lemon juice, stone breaker, and some apple cider vinegar. Not sure if it helped but maybe it did for me.

I may have it tested to see what type of stone it is. I think i got it from being dehydrated for an extended period of time over the last 6 months.

 

I had a kidney stone when I was 10 years old. The worst part about that is none of the doctors suspected it was a kidney stone because that doesn’t happen to kids usually. I suffered with that pain for longer than I had to because of that. On top of that, they put me through a lot of unnecessary and painful testing while they figured it out.
Turns out my mom passed it to me in utero. I was the first kid ever to undergo lithotripsy which is a concentrated shockwave that breaks the stone inside of you and allows it to pass.
After that experience, I could say that not too much bothers me anymore.

 

Dang that's nuts. Did your mom have the kidney stone pain during pregnancy?

 

She didn’t have a kidney stone- it manifested more like “gravel” or sand for her. Which means she had something pretty serious going on with her kidneys at the time she was pregnant with me. That’s the part that transferred to me.
Luckily, I don’t have kidney problems or deal with kidney stones. She would have been 69 years old today. RIP

 

Lemon juice for dissolving kidney stones from the inside. Then a somewhat regular diet of lemon juice to ward them off.

 

My kidney stone(s) story goes like this. Late January 2024 I start getting this weird pain in my back that came and went. Then over the next couple days the pain gets worse and worse. I'm standing in the the living room at 1 am because at that point the pain was getting so bad that I was contemplating going to the ER. Then I blacked out from the pain. Somehow my wife got me into the car and rushed me to the ER. I generally have a very high pain tolerance but this was crippling. I got checked in and was given the "good meds" I went and I had an MRI and they were super surprised at what they found. 5 kidney stones around 14mm in size. They also said the pain was because my right kidney had started to go into failure. I had 3 in my right kidney and 2 in my left. I spent the next 2 months having 2 different surgeries and stents placed between my kidneys and bladder. The surgeries were both done through the pee hole and involved a laser blasting the stones. There is nothing, and I mean nothing that will mentally prepare you for the sight of peeing straight blood and sand after the surgery. Luckily I was out for the surgeries, but the stent removal I was wide awake. As if I hadn't been through enough already the stent removal was the most humiliating thing I have ever had to do. I go in, and the nurse says, you need to strip down completely. Then I get set up in one of those beds with the stirrups. They strap my legs in the stirrups and I'm just laying there spread eagle butt naked. The go up the pee hole, past the prostate and into the bladder and then grab the stent and pull it out. I felt every inch of that thing coming out and it was 14 inches long.

 

About eight years ago, I had my first (and only) kidney stone. Around 8:00pm on a Friday night, I started feeling a little discomfort in my side. By 8:30, I was in so much pain it was making me vomit. My (at the time) live in girlfriend said it might be my appendix because that was around where the pain was coming from. She drove me to the ER. Once they got me in the back, the doctor came in and saw me slowly pacing back and forth (because that was slightly less painful than laying on the gurney). He said, "You're doing what we doctors call the kidney stone dance." They hooked me up to a morphine IV drip and within seconds, all was right in the world. They determined that I had a 5mm stone in my ureter. To put it into perspective, that's roughly the diameter of a .22LR bullet. He said it appeared to be moving, slowly but moving. As long as it was moving along, they won't go in and remove it, just let it run its course.

After a few days, the pain lessened. The doctor told me what to watch out for when its ready to pass. He said that where the ureter enters the bladder, there's a lot of nerve endings that get stimulated by the stone. So it'll feel like a UTI where you just got done urinating, and it immediately feels like you have to go again, even though you don't. Well that happened the next Friday at work. When I got home, after a couple beers, I went use the bathroom and while going, the pee stream was interrupted. There was a stop in flow, then it started back up again. When I was done, I could feel something was lodged in my urethra. I thought, "Its in there! The nightmare is almost over!" I started slamming water until I really had to go again. I was able to catch the little bugger in the screen trap thingy that the doctor gave me. Luckily, my stone was smooth, like a pebble. Not chrystalized like a shard of glass like some horror stories I've heard of.

The source of my stone? Peanuts. While in the ER, the doctor was asking me about any recent changes in my diet. He asked if I'd been eating a lot of this, or a lot of that. Then he mentioned peanuts. Four weeks prior to the onset, I was looking for something to snack on at work that wasn't totally unhealthy. So I got a 5-pound bag of in the shell peanuts that I would start on Monday and finish the bag by Friday, so a pound per day for four weeks. I'm not saying everyone will suffer the same fate eating peanuts like that, but that's what did it for me.

 

Peanuts, interesting. I wonder if they were salted and it was dehydrating you. I don’t wish this on anyone. It’s not a fun experience. The morphine or dilauded (synthetic) is a nice warm pic me up though. Both of mine were calcium deposits.

 

Yes, they were salted. I doubt it was dehydration as I always drink a lot of water. And of course, all of our bodies are different. Someone else might be able to eat 5 pounds a day and not have an issue, I just wasn't that guy.

 

Peanuts have a high oxalate content. Not as high as almonds, but pretty high. If your stones are calcium formed it's likely from excess oxalates. That's what my nightmare stones were caused from. I now have to drink at a minimum 4 liters of water every day.