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NWPirate · Jan 15, 2025

IMXPLRN said: ↑

I would love to pass that after what I went through around this time last year. Cliff notes:
Started having weird lower back pains, it came and went, I kind of figured it was a stone. I had an 1/4" one 11 years prior and it passed no problem.
A couple days later I find myself on the floor in my living room, don't really remember falling. Apparently I blacked out from the pain. That was enough. Off to the ER I go.
I get to the ER and I'm in really bad shape, they give me some good pain meds and a CT scan.
Doctor comes out and says I have five, (yes 5) 5/8" - 3/4" kidney stones and my right kidney has started to go into failure because they were blocking the flow. Great. No one on earth can pass a stone that big let alone 5.
Surgery is scheduled and I learn this will all happen in 3 phases.
Surgery # 1, scheduled for 2.5 weeks after my initial lower back pain. (So I'm living with this nightmare pain for that long and they won't prescribe me anything more than ibuprofen 800. They tell me if I need anything more I need to go to the ER). I have surgery and everything goes great. They ram a scope up my peehole go past my prostate through my bladder, and into my right kidney. The scope has a laser in it and they basically blast all the stones into sand and very small fragments. They install a stent in between my right kidney and bladder to help hold open my ureter so everything can pass. When I wake up I can tell there is something inside me. It doesn't hurt but it feels weird. I will have this stent for the next month. It literally makes you have to pee almost immediately after drinking anything. Shit just flows straight through.

I'm sent home and warned about this but nothing and I mean nothing prepares you for peeing blood and sand for weeks on end. And the pain. At least it isn't kidney failure pain, but wow it burns for a couple weeks.

Surgery # 2, scheduled for 1 month after the first one. Same procedure but on the left kidney, except they remove the stent from my right kidney and then put one in on the left. Thankfully I'm asleep for these surgeries. I wake up and same thing as last time. I get to keep the stent for a month and pee blood and sand, blah blah blah blah.

So now it's like 2 months since this all started and I am free from stones. I have adjusted my diet accordingly and upped my water intake to prevent this in the future.
Now it's time for the final procedure.
Stent removal.
Oh? What's this?
This happens while I'm awake?
FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUU!!!!!
I'm not ok with this, but I want this damn thing out. It's super uncomfortable.
I go in for my procedure and right off the bat the nurse says, you need to get naked. No socks, no shirt. 100% naked.
OK.
I undress and then she has me lay on this table.
Did I mention it's like 60 degrees in the room?
I lay down and she folds these things out. Oh, I must be getting my pap smear. WTF.
So there I am laying on the table with my legs up in stirrups, spread eagle, completely naked.
I then get to lay there for what seemed like hours, super uncomfortable and cold.
The doctor comes in and then wants to have a discussion with me about the procedure and what I'm going to feel etc.
Great.
I'm still sitting here butt naked.
So now he straps my legs into the stirrups and keeps reminding me to stay relaxed.
Then he pulls out this scope thing that has a grabber at the end of it.
And
It goes straight into my peehole.
Good times, that burns and hurts like hell. But he was right it only hurts for a a little bit and then that pain turns into massive pressure. Likely from getting said peehole stretched out.
He's talking to me the whole time, Ok, we're now about to pass the prostate. Relax please.
Relax.
CHRIS, the scope is stuck near your prostate because you are too tense and your prostate is grabbing the scope. I can't move it until you relax.
So I relax and it literally feels like someone pinching you inside really hard with a red hot poker. That is crazy painful.
We get passed the prostate and now enter the kidney. He sees the end of the stent and deploys the grabber, then warns me. This is the most unpleasant part but it's over in 10 seconds.
And with that, I live the longest 10 seconds of my life where he pulls the stent out. I can feel every inch of it leaving my body. It literally feels like I'm being pull started like a lawnmower. And the whole time I'm thinking, I wonder why it feels like its so long.
Well.
Because it is. My assumption was it was like 4 or 5 inches long. This thing was 14 inches long.
The stent now is out. The doctor and nurse leave no room for small talk and literally look at me, ask if I'm good and then say have a nice day and leave. I clean up, get dressed and walk out of that place. I feel absolutely embarrassed and almost ashamed. Basically violated. LOL. I never want to deal with that shame again. LOL.

I have a picture of the stent, but won't post it unless people really are curoius.
Click to expand...

BlackNBlu said: ↑

Holy shit. Negative on the stent pics. Just no.
I cannot UNREAD that. I should not have read that.
I need brain bleach.
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Same here.
I want to go back in time and not read that post.

Please

nobodyintexas · Jan 15, 2025

IMXPLRN said: ↑

I would love to pass that after what I went through around this time last year. Cliff notes:
Started having weird lower back pains, it came and went, I kind of figured it was a stone. I had an 1/4" one 11 years prior and it passed no problem.
A couple days later I find myself on the floor in my living room, don't really remember falling. Apparently I blacked out from the pain. That was enough. Off to the ER I go.
I get to the ER and I'm in really bad shape, they give me some good pain meds and a CT scan.
Doctor comes out and says I have five, (yes 5) 5/8" - 3/4" kidney stones and my right kidney has started to go into failure because they were blocking the flow. Great. No one on earth can pass a stone that big let alone 5.
Surgery is scheduled and I learn this will all happen in 3 phases.
Surgery # 1, scheduled for 2.5 weeks after my initial lower back pain. (So I'm living with this nightmare pain for that long and they won't prescribe me anything more than ibuprofen 800. They tell me if I need anything more I need to go to the ER). I have surgery and everything goes great. They ram a scope up my peehole go past my prostate through my bladder, and into my right kidney. The scope has a laser in it and they basically blast all the stones into sand and very small fragments. They install a stent in between my right kidney and bladder to help hold open my ureter so everything can pass. When I wake up I can tell there is something inside me. It doesn't hurt but it feels weird. I will have this stent for the next month. It literally makes you have to pee almost immediately after drinking anything. Shit just flows straight through.

I'm sent home and warned about this but nothing and I mean nothing prepares you for peeing blood and sand for weeks on end. And the pain. At least it isn't kidney failure pain, but wow it burns for a couple weeks.

Surgery # 2, scheduled for 1 month after the first one. Same procedure but on the left kidney, except they remove the stent from my right kidney and then put one in on the left. Thankfully I'm asleep for these surgeries. I wake up and same thing as last time. I get to keep the stent for a month and pee blood and sand, blah blah blah blah.

So now it's like 2 months since this all started and I am free from stones. I have adjusted my diet accordingly and upped my water intake to prevent this in the future.
Now it's time for the final procedure.
Stent removal.
Oh? What's this?
This happens while I'm awake?
FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUU!!!!!
I'm not ok with this, but I want this damn thing out. It's super uncomfortable.
I go in for my procedure and right off the bat the nurse says, you need to get naked. No socks, no shirt. 100% naked.
OK.
I undress and then she has me lay on this table.
Did I mention it's like 60 degrees in the room?
I lay down and she folds these things out. Oh, I must be getting my pap smear. WTF.
So there I am laying on the table with my legs up in stirrups, spread eagle, completely naked.
I then get to lay there for what seemed like hours, super uncomfortable and cold.
The doctor comes in and then wants to have a discussion with me about the procedure and what I'm going to feel etc.
Great.
I'm still sitting here butt naked.
So now he straps my legs into the stirrups and keeps reminding me to stay relaxed.
Then he pulls out this scope thing that has a grabber at the end of it.
And
It goes straight into my peehole.
Good times, that burns and hurts like hell. But he was right it only hurts for a a little bit and then that pain turns into massive pressure. Likely from getting said peehole stretched out.
He's talking to me the whole time, Ok, we're now about to pass the prostate. Relax please.
Relax.
CHRIS, the scope is stuck near your prostate because you are too tense and your prostate is grabbing the scope. I can't move it until you relax.
So I relax and it literally feels like someone pinching you inside really hard with a red hot poker. That is crazy painful.
We get passed the prostate and now enter the kidney. He sees the end of the stent and deploys the grabber, then warns me. This is the most unpleasant part but it's over in 10 seconds.
And with that, I live the longest 10 seconds of my life where he pulls the stent out. I can feel every inch of it leaving my body. It literally feels like I'm being pull started like a lawnmower. And the whole time I'm thinking, I wonder why it feels like its so long.
Well.
Because it is. My assumption was it was like 4 or 5 inches long. This thing was 14 inches long.
The stent now is out. The doctor and nurse leave no room for small talk and literally look at me, ask if I'm good and then say have a nice day and leave. I clean up, get dressed and walk out of that place. I feel absolutely embarrassed and almost ashamed. Basically violated. LOL. I never want to deal with that shame again. LOL.

I have a picture of the stent, but won't post it unless people really are curoius.
Click to expand...

That could be a scene in the next SAW movie

1794TX · Jan 15, 2025

IMXPLRN said: ↑

I would love to pass that after what I went through around this time last year. Cliff notes:
Started having weird lower back pains, it came and went, I kind of figured it was a stone. I had an 1/4" one 11 years prior and it passed no problem.
A couple days later I find myself on the floor in my living room, don't really remember falling. Apparently I blacked out from the pain. That was enough. Off to the ER I go.
I get to the ER and I'm in really bad shape, they give me some good pain meds and a CT scan.
Doctor comes out and says I have five, (yes 5) 5/8" - 3/4" kidney stones and my right kidney has started to go into failure because they were blocking the flow. Great. No one on earth can pass a stone that big let alone 5.
Surgery is scheduled and I learn this will all happen in 3 phases.
Surgery # 1, scheduled for 2.5 weeks after my initial lower back pain. (So I'm living with this nightmare pain for that long and they won't prescribe me anything more than ibuprofen 800. They tell me if I need anything more I need to go to the ER). I have surgery and everything goes great. They ram a scope up my peehole go past my prostate through my bladder, and into my right kidney. The scope has a laser in it and they basically blast all the stones into sand and very small fragments. They install a stent in between my right kidney and bladder to help hold open my ureter so everything can pass. When I wake up I can tell there is something inside me. It doesn't hurt but it feels weird. I will have this stent for the next month. It literally makes you have to pee almost immediately after drinking anything. Shit just flows straight through.

I'm sent home and warned about this but nothing and I mean nothing prepares you for peeing blood and sand for weeks on end. And the pain. At least it isn't kidney failure pain, but wow it burns for a couple weeks.

Surgery # 2, scheduled for 1 month after the first one. Same procedure but on the left kidney, except they remove the stent from my right kidney and then put one in on the left. Thankfully I'm asleep for these surgeries. I wake up and same thing as last time. I get to keep the stent for a month and pee blood and sand, blah blah blah blah.

So now it's like 2 months since this all started and I am free from stones. I have adjusted my diet accordingly and upped my water intake to prevent this in the future.
Now it's time for the final procedure.
Stent removal.
Oh? What's this?
This happens while I'm awake?
FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUU!!!!!
I'm not ok with this, but I want this damn thing out. It's super uncomfortable.
I go in for my procedure and right off the bat the nurse says, you need to get naked. No socks, no shirt. 100% naked.
OK.
I undress and then she has me lay on this table.
Did I mention it's like 60 degrees in the room?
I lay down and she folds these things out. Oh, I must be getting my pap smear. WTF.
So there I am laying on the table with my legs up in stirrups, spread eagle, completely naked.
I then get to lay there for what seemed like hours, super uncomfortable and cold.
The doctor comes in and then wants to have a discussion with me about the procedure and what I'm going to feel etc.
Great.
I'm still sitting here butt naked.
So now he straps my legs into the stirrups and keeps reminding me to stay relaxed.
Then he pulls out this scope thing that has a grabber at the end of it.
And
It goes straight into my peehole.
Good times, that burns and hurts like hell. But he was right it only hurts for a a little bit and then that pain turns into massive pressure. Likely from getting said peehole stretched out.
He's talking to me the whole time, Ok, we're now about to pass the prostate. Relax please.
Relax.
CHRIS, the scope is stuck near your prostate because you are too tense and your prostate is grabbing the scope. I can't move it until you relax.
So I relax and it literally feels like someone pinching you inside really hard with a red hot poker. That is crazy painful.
We get passed the prostate and now enter the kidney. He sees the end of the stent and deploys the grabber, then warns me. This is the most unpleasant part but it's over in 10 seconds.
And with that, I live the longest 10 seconds of my life where he pulls the stent out. I can feel every inch of it leaving my body. It literally feels like I'm being pull started like a lawnmower. And the whole time I'm thinking, I wonder why it feels like its so long.
Well.
Because it is. My assumption was it was like 4 or 5 inches long. This thing was 14 inches long.
The stent now is out. The doctor and nurse leave no room for small talk and literally look at me, ask if I'm good and then say have a nice day and leave. I clean up, get dressed and walk out of that place. I feel absolutely embarrassed and almost ashamed. Basically violated. LOL. I never want to deal with that shame again. LOL.

I have a picture of the stent, but won't post it unless people really are curoius.
Click to expand...

Also, up in the toolbar above the text window, this little icon lets you put a 'spoiler' in your post, which hides a pic or text behind a button...

Like this

You can also just copy the code and put whatever you need to hide between the first ] and second [.

OldGuy03 · Jan 15, 2025

IMXPLRN said: ↑

I would love to pass that after what I went through around this time last year. Cliff notes:
Started having weird lower back pains, it came and went, I kind of figured it was a stone. I had an 1/4" one 11 years prior and it passed no problem.
A couple days later I find myself on the floor in my living room, don't really remember falling. Apparently I blacked out from the pain. That was enough. Off to the ER I go.
I get to the ER and I'm in really bad shape, they give me some good pain meds and a CT scan.
Doctor comes out and says I have five, (yes 5) 5/8" - 3/4" kidney stones and my right kidney has started to go into failure because they were blocking the flow. Great. No one on earth can pass a stone that big let alone 5.
Surgery is scheduled and I learn this will all happen in 3 phases.
Surgery # 1, scheduled for 2.5 weeks after my initial lower back pain. (So I'm living with this nightmare pain for that long and they won't prescribe me anything more than ibuprofen 800. They tell me if I need anything more I need to go to the ER). I have surgery and everything goes great. They ram a scope up my peehole go past my prostate through my bladder, and into my right kidney. The scope has a laser in it and they basically blast all the stones into sand and very small fragments. They install a stent in between my right kidney and bladder to help hold open my ureter so everything can pass. When I wake up I can tell there is something inside me. It doesn't hurt but it feels weird. I will have this stent for the next month. It literally makes you have to pee almost immediately after drinking anything. Shit just flows straight through.

I'm sent home and warned about this but nothing and I mean nothing prepares you for peeing blood and sand for weeks on end. And the pain. At least it isn't kidney failure pain, but wow it burns for a couple weeks.

Surgery # 2, scheduled for 1 month after the first one. Same procedure but on the left kidney, except they remove the stent from my right kidney and then put one in on the left. Thankfully I'm asleep for these surgeries. I wake up and same thing as last time. I get to keep the stent for a month and pee blood and sand, blah blah blah blah.

So now it's like 2 months since this all started and I am free from stones. I have adjusted my diet accordingly and upped my water intake to prevent this in the future.
Now it's time for the final procedure.
Stent removal.
Oh? What's this?
This happens while I'm awake?
FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUU!!!!!
I'm not ok with this, but I want this damn thing out. It's super uncomfortable.
I go in for my procedure and right off the bat the nurse says, you need to get naked. No socks, no shirt. 100% naked.
OK.
I undress and then she has me lay on this table.
Did I mention it's like 60 degrees in the room?
I lay down and she folds these things out. Oh, I must be getting my pap smear. WTF.
So there I am laying on the table with my legs up in stirrups, spread eagle, completely naked.
I then get to lay there for what seemed like hours, super uncomfortable and cold.
The doctor comes in and then wants to have a discussion with me about the procedure and what I'm going to feel etc.
Great.
I'm still sitting here butt naked.
So now he straps my legs into the stirrups and keeps reminding me to stay relaxed.
Then he pulls out this scope thing that has a grabber at the end of it.
And
It goes straight into my peehole.
Good times, that burns and hurts like hell. But he was right it only hurts for a a little bit and then that pain turns into massive pressure. Likely from getting said peehole stretched out.
He's talking to me the whole time, Ok, we're now about to pass the prostate. Relax please.
Relax.
CHRIS, the scope is stuck near your prostate because you are too tense and your prostate is grabbing the scope. I can't move it until you relax.
So I relax and it literally feels like someone pinching you inside really hard with a red hot poker. That is crazy painful.
We get passed the prostate and now enter the kidney. He sees the end of the stent and deploys the grabber, then warns me. This is the most unpleasant part but it's over in 10 seconds.
And with that, I live the longest 10 seconds of my life where he pulls the stent out. I can feel every inch of it leaving my body. It literally feels like I'm being pull started like a lawnmower. And the whole time I'm thinking, I wonder why it feels like its so long.
Well.
Because it is. My assumption was it was like 4 or 5 inches long. This thing was 14 inches long.
The stent now is out. The doctor and nurse leave no room for small talk and literally look at me, ask if I'm good and then say have a nice day and leave. I clean up, get dressed and walk out of that place. I feel absolutely embarrassed and almost ashamed. Basically violated. LOL. I never want to deal with that shame again. LOL.

I have a picture of the stent, but won't post it unless people really are curoius.
Click to expand...

Just the cliff notes you say?

OldGuy03 · Jan 15, 2025

1794TX said: ↑

Also, up in the toolbar above the text window, this little icon lets you put a 'spoiler' in your post, which hides a pic or text behind a button...

Like this

You can also just copy the code and put whatever you need to hide between the first ] and second [.
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I never knew how y'all were adding in spoilers. Thanks.

LarryDangerfield · Jan 15, 2025

IMXPLRN said: ↑

I would love to pass that after what I went through around this time last year. Cliff notes:
Started having weird lower back pains, it came and went, I kind of figured it was a stone. I had an 1/4" one 11 years prior and it passed no problem.
A couple days later I find myself on the floor in my living room, don't really remember falling. Apparently I blacked out from the pain. That was enough. Off to the ER I go.
I get to the ER and I'm in really bad shape, they give me some good pain meds and a CT scan.
Doctor comes out and says I have five, (yes 5) 5/8" - 3/4" kidney stones and my right kidney has started to go into failure because they were blocking the flow. Great. No one on earth can pass a stone that big let alone 5.
Surgery is scheduled and I learn this will all happen in 3 phases.
Surgery # 1, scheduled for 2.5 weeks after my initial lower back pain. (So I'm living with this nightmare pain for that long and they won't prescribe me anything more than ibuprofen 800. They tell me if I need anything more I need to go to the ER). I have surgery and everything goes great. They ram a scope up my peehole go past my prostate through my bladder, and into my right kidney. The scope has a laser in it and they basically blast all the stones into sand and very small fragments. They install a stent in between my right kidney and bladder to help hold open my ureter so everything can pass. When I wake up I can tell there is something inside me. It doesn't hurt but it feels weird. I will have this stent for the next month. It literally makes you have to pee almost immediately after drinking anything. Shit just flows straight through.

I'm sent home and warned about this but nothing and I mean nothing prepares you for peeing blood and sand for weeks on end. And the pain. At least it isn't kidney failure pain, but wow it burns for a couple weeks.

Surgery # 2, scheduled for 1 month after the first one. Same procedure but on the left kidney, except they remove the stent from my right kidney and then put one in on the left. Thankfully I'm asleep for these surgeries. I wake up and same thing as last time. I get to keep the stent for a month and pee blood and sand, blah blah blah blah.

So now it's like 2 months since this all started and I am free from stones. I have adjusted my diet accordingly and upped my water intake to prevent this in the future.
Now it's time for the final procedure.
Stent removal.
Oh? What's this?
This happens while I'm awake?
FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUU!!!!!
I'm not ok with this, but I want this damn thing out. It's super uncomfortable.
I go in for my procedure and right off the bat the nurse says, you need to get naked. No socks, no shirt. 100% naked.
OK.
I undress and then she has me lay on this table.
Did I mention it's like 60 degrees in the room?
I lay down and she folds these things out. Oh, I must be getting my pap smear. WTF.
So there I am laying on the table with my legs up in stirrups, spread eagle, completely naked.
I then get to lay there for what seemed like hours, super uncomfortable and cold.
The doctor comes in and then wants to have a discussion with me about the procedure and what I'm going to feel etc.
Great.
I'm still sitting here butt naked.
So now he straps my legs into the stirrups and keeps reminding me to stay relaxed.
Then he pulls out this scope thing that has a grabber at the end of it.
And
It goes straight into my peehole.
Good times, that burns and hurts like hell. But he was right it only hurts for a a little bit and then that pain turns into massive pressure. Likely from getting said peehole stretched out.
He's talking to me the whole time, Ok, we're now about to pass the prostate. Relax please.
Relax.
CHRIS, the scope is stuck near your prostate because you are too tense and your prostate is grabbing the scope. I can't move it until you relax.
So I relax and it literally feels like someone pinching you inside really hard with a red hot poker. That is crazy painful.
We get passed the prostate and now enter the kidney. He sees the end of the stent and deploys the grabber, then warns me. This is the most unpleasant part but it's over in 10 seconds.
And with that, I live the longest 10 seconds of my life where he pulls the stent out. I can feel every inch of it leaving my body. It literally feels like I'm being pull started like a lawnmower. And the whole time I'm thinking, I wonder why it feels like its so long.
Well.
Because it is. My assumption was it was like 4 or 5 inches long. This thing was 14 inches long.
The stent now is out. The doctor and nurse leave no room for small talk and literally look at me, ask if I'm good and then say have a nice day and leave. I clean up, get dressed and walk out of that place. I feel absolutely embarrassed and almost ashamed. Basically violated. LOL. I never want to deal with that shame again. LOL.

I have a picture of the stent, but won't post it unless people really are curoius.
Click to expand...

I'm sorry that you had to go through that and God I hope I never do lol. I say you should post the picture

OldGuy03 · Jan 15, 2025

LarryDangerfield said: ↑

I'm sorry that you had to go through that and God I hope I never do lol. I say you should post the picture
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yep.

nobodyintexas · Jan 15, 2025

IMXPLRN said: ↑

I would love to pass that after what I went through around this time last year. Cliff notes:
Started having weird lower back pains, it came and went, I kind of figured it was a stone. I had an 1/4" one 11 years prior and it passed no problem.
A couple days later I find myself on the floor in my living room, don't really remember falling. Apparently I blacked out from the pain. That was enough. Off to the ER I go.
I get to the ER and I'm in really bad shape, they give me some good pain meds and a CT scan.
Doctor comes out and says I have five, (yes 5) 5/8" - 3/4" kidney stones and my right kidney has started to go into failure because they were blocking the flow. Great. No one on earth can pass a stone that big let alone 5.
Surgery is scheduled and I learn this will all happen in 3 phases.
Surgery # 1, scheduled for 2.5 weeks after my initial lower back pain. (So I'm living with this nightmare pain for that long and they won't prescribe me anything more than ibuprofen 800. They tell me if I need anything more I need to go to the ER). I have surgery and everything goes great. They ram a scope up my peehole go past my prostate through my bladder, and into my right kidney. The scope has a laser in it and they basically blast all the stones into sand and very small fragments. They install a stent in between my right kidney and bladder to help hold open my ureter so everything can pass. When I wake up I can tell there is something inside me. It doesn't hurt but it feels weird. I will have this stent for the next month. It literally makes you have to pee almost immediately after drinking anything. Shit just flows straight through.

I'm sent home and warned about this but nothing and I mean nothing prepares you for peeing blood and sand for weeks on end. And the pain. At least it isn't kidney failure pain, but wow it burns for a couple weeks.

Surgery # 2, scheduled for 1 month after the first one. Same procedure but on the left kidney, except they remove the stent from my right kidney and then put one in on the left. Thankfully I'm asleep for these surgeries. I wake up and same thing as last time. I get to keep the stent for a month and pee blood and sand, blah blah blah blah.

So now it's like 2 months since this all started and I am free from stones. I have adjusted my diet accordingly and upped my water intake to prevent this in the future.
Now it's time for the final procedure.
Stent removal.
Oh? What's this?
This happens while I'm awake?
FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUU!!!!!
I'm not ok with this, but I want this damn thing out. It's super uncomfortable.
I go in for my procedure and right off the bat the nurse says, you need to get naked. No socks, no shirt. 100% naked.
OK.
I undress and then she has me lay on this table.
Did I mention it's like 60 degrees in the room?
I lay down and she folds these things out. Oh, I must be getting my pap smear. WTF.
So there I am laying on the table with my legs up in stirrups, spread eagle, completely naked.
I then get to lay there for what seemed like hours, super uncomfortable and cold.
The doctor comes in and then wants to have a discussion with me about the procedure and what I'm going to feel etc.
Great.
I'm still sitting here butt naked.
So now he straps my legs into the stirrups and keeps reminding me to stay relaxed.
Then he pulls out this scope thing that has a grabber at the end of it.
And
It goes straight into my peehole.
Good times, that burns and hurts like hell. But he was right it only hurts for a a little bit and then that pain turns into massive pressure. Likely from getting said peehole stretched out.
He's talking to me the whole time, Ok, we're now about to pass the prostate. Relax please.
Relax.
CHRIS, the scope is stuck near your prostate because you are too tense and your prostate is grabbing the scope. I can't move it until you relax.
So I relax and it literally feels like someone pinching you inside really hard with a red hot poker. That is crazy painful.
We get passed the prostate and now enter the kidney. He sees the end of the stent and deploys the grabber, then warns me. This is the most unpleasant part but it's over in 10 seconds.
And with that, I live the longest 10 seconds of my life where he pulls the stent out. I can feel every inch of it leaving my body. It literally feels like I'm being pull started like a lawnmower. And the whole time I'm thinking, I wonder why it feels like its so long.
Well.
Because it is. My assumption was it was like 4 or 5 inches long. This thing was 14 inches long.
The stent now is out. The doctor and nurse leave no room for small talk and literally look at me, ask if I'm good and then say have a nice day and leave. I clean up, get dressed and walk out of that place. I feel absolutely embarrassed and almost ashamed. Basically violated. LOL. I never want to deal with that shame again. LOL.

I have a picture of the stent, but won't post it unless people really are curoius.
Click to expand...

I was going to make a smarmy comment about how Bacon would prevent that.

but, I'm better than that.

IMXPLRN · Jan 15, 2025

Here's a pic of the stent. It's the light blue thing with the curled ends.

BlackNBlu · Jan 15, 2025

nobodyintexas said: ↑

I was going to make a smarmy comment about how Bacon would prevent that.

but, I'm better than that.
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^^^^THIS^^^^

Definitely not looking at the weiner stent pic.

OldGuy03 · Jan 15, 2025

nobodyintexas said: ↑

I was going to make a smarmy comment about how Bacon would prevent that.

but, I'm better than that.
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apparently not.

T-Rex266 · Jan 15, 2025

I’ll allow it

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IMXPLRN said: ↑

I would love to pass that after what I went through around this time last year. Cliff notes:
Started having weird lower back pains, it came and went, I kind of figured it was a stone. I had an 1/4" one 11 years prior and it passed no problem.
A couple days later I find myself on the floor in my living room, don't really remember falling. Apparently I blacked out from the pain. That was enough. Off to the ER I go.
I get to the ER and I'm in really bad shape, they give me some good pain meds and a CT scan.
Doctor comes out and says I have five, (yes 5) 5/8" - 3/4" kidney stones and my right kidney has started to go into failure because they were blocking the flow. Great. No one on earth can pass a stone that big let alone 5.
Surgery is scheduled and I learn this will all happen in 3 phases.
Surgery # 1, scheduled for 2.5 weeks after my initial lower back pain. (So I'm living with this nightmare pain for that long and they won't prescribe me anything more than ibuprofen 800. They tell me if I need anything more I need to go to the ER). I have surgery and everything goes great. They ram a scope up my peehole go past my prostate through my bladder, and into my right kidney. The scope has a laser in it and they basically blast all the stones into sand and very small fragments. They install a stent in between my right kidney and bladder to help hold open my ureter so everything can pass. When I wake up I can tell there is something inside me. It doesn't hurt but it feels weird. I will have this stent for the next month. It literally makes you have to pee almost immediately after drinking anything. Shit just flows straight through.

I'm sent home and warned about this but nothing and I mean nothing prepares you for peeing blood and sand for weeks on end. And the pain. At least it isn't kidney failure pain, but wow it burns for a couple weeks.

Surgery # 2, scheduled for 1 month after the first one. Same procedure but on the left kidney, except they remove the stent from my right kidney and then put one in on the left. Thankfully I'm asleep for these surgeries. I wake up and same thing as last time. I get to keep the stent for a month and pee blood and sand, blah blah blah blah.

So now it's like 2 months since this all started and I am free from stones. I have adjusted my diet accordingly and upped my water intake to prevent this in the future.
Now it's time for the final procedure.
Stent removal.
Oh? What's this?
This happens while I'm awake?
FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUU!!!!!
I'm not ok with this, but I want this damn thing out. It's super uncomfortable.
I go in for my procedure and right off the bat the nurse says, you need to get naked. No socks, no shirt. 100% naked.
OK.
I undress and then she has me lay on this table.
Did I mention it's like 60 degrees in the room?
I lay down and she folds these things out. Oh, I must be getting my pap smear. WTF.
So there I am laying on the table with my legs up in stirrups, spread eagle, completely naked.
I then get to lay there for what seemed like hours, super uncomfortable and cold.
The doctor comes in and then wants to have a discussion with me about the procedure and what I'm going to feel etc.
Great.
I'm still sitting here butt naked.
So now he straps my legs into the stirrups and keeps reminding me to stay relaxed.
Then he pulls out this scope thing that has a grabber at the end of it.
And
It goes straight into my peehole.
Good times, that burns and hurts like hell. But he was right it only hurts for a a little bit and then that pain turns into massive pressure. Likely from getting said peehole stretched out.
He's talking to me the whole time, Ok, we're now about to pass the prostate. Relax please.
Relax.
CHRIS, the scope is stuck near your prostate because you are too tense and your prostate is grabbing the scope. I can't move it until you relax.
So I relax and it literally feels like someone pinching you inside really hard with a red hot poker. That is crazy painful.
We get passed the prostate and now enter the kidney. He sees the end of the stent and deploys the grabber, then warns me. This is the most unpleasant part but it's over in 10 seconds.
And with that, I live the longest 10 seconds of my life where he pulls the stent out. I can feel every inch of it leaving my body. It literally feels like I'm being pull started like a lawnmower. And the whole time I'm thinking, I wonder why it feels like its so long.
Well.
Because it is. My assumption was it was like 4 or 5 inches long. This thing was 14 inches long.
The stent now is out. The doctor and nurse leave no room for small talk and literally look at me, ask if I'm good and then say have a nice day and leave. I clean up, get dressed and walk out of that place. I feel absolutely embarrassed and almost ashamed. Basically violated. LOL. I never want to deal with that shame again. LOL.

I have a picture of the stent, but won't post it unless people really are curoius.
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And I thought having a recurrent hernia was bad.

Where's my water?

WAtundra4x4 · Jan 15, 2025

IMXPLRN said: ↑

I would love to pass that after what I went through around this time last year. Cliff notes:
Started having weird lower back pains, it came and went, I kind of figured it was a stone. I had an 1/4" one 11 years prior and it passed no problem.
A couple days later I find myself on the floor in my living room, don't really remember falling. Apparently I blacked out from the pain. That was enough. Off to the ER I go.
I get to the ER and I'm in really bad shape, they give me some good pain meds and a CT scan.
Doctor comes out and says I have five, (yes 5) 5/8" - 3/4" kidney stones and my right kidney has started to go into failure because they were blocking the flow. Great. No one on earth can pass a stone that big let alone 5.
Surgery is scheduled and I learn this will all happen in 3 phases.
Surgery # 1, scheduled for 2.5 weeks after my initial lower back pain. (So I'm living with this nightmare pain for that long and they won't prescribe me anything more than ibuprofen 800. They tell me if I need anything more I need to go to the ER). I have surgery and everything goes great. They ram a scope up my peehole go past my prostate through my bladder, and into my right kidney. The scope has a laser in it and they basically blast all the stones into sand and very small fragments. They install a stent in between my right kidney and bladder to help hold open my ureter so everything can pass. When I wake up I can tell there is something inside me. It doesn't hurt but it feels weird. I will have this stent for the next month. It literally makes you have to pee almost immediately after drinking anything. Shit just flows straight through.

I'm sent home and warned about this but nothing and I mean nothing prepares you for peeing blood and sand for weeks on end. And the pain. At least it isn't kidney failure pain, but wow it burns for a couple weeks.

Surgery # 2, scheduled for 1 month after the first one. Same procedure but on the left kidney, except they remove the stent from my right kidney and then put one in on the left. Thankfully I'm asleep for these surgeries. I wake up and same thing as last time. I get to keep the stent for a month and pee blood and sand, blah blah blah blah.

So now it's like 2 months since this all started and I am free from stones. I have adjusted my diet accordingly and upped my water intake to prevent this in the future.
Now it's time for the final procedure.
Stent removal.
Oh? What's this?
This happens while I'm awake?
FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUU!!!!!
I'm not ok with this, but I want this damn thing out. It's super uncomfortable.
I go in for my procedure and right off the bat the nurse says, you need to get naked. No socks, no shirt. 100% naked.
OK.
I undress and then she has me lay on this table.
Did I mention it's like 60 degrees in the room?
I lay down and she folds these things out. Oh, I must be getting my pap smear. WTF.
So there I am laying on the table with my legs up in stirrups, spread eagle, completely naked.
I then get to lay there for what seemed like hours, super uncomfortable and cold.
The doctor comes in and then wants to have a discussion with me about the procedure and what I'm going to feel etc.
Great.
I'm still sitting here butt naked.
So now he straps my legs into the stirrups and keeps reminding me to stay relaxed.
Then he pulls out this scope thing that has a grabber at the end of it.
And
It goes straight into my peehole.
Good times, that burns and hurts like hell. But he was right it only hurts for a a little bit and then that pain turns into massive pressure. Likely from getting said peehole stretched out.
He's talking to me the whole time, Ok, we're now about to pass the prostate. Relax please.
Relax.
CHRIS, the scope is stuck near your prostate because you are too tense and your prostate is grabbing the scope. I can't move it until you relax.
So I relax and it literally feels like someone pinching you inside really hard with a red hot poker. That is crazy painful.
We get passed the prostate and now enter the kidney. He sees the end of the stent and deploys the grabber, then warns me. This is the most unpleasant part but it's over in 10 seconds.
And with that, I live the longest 10 seconds of my life where he pulls the stent out. I can feel every inch of it leaving my body. It literally feels like I'm being pull started like a lawnmower. And the whole time I'm thinking, I wonder why it feels like its so long.
Well.
Because it is. My assumption was it was like 4 or 5 inches long. This thing was 14 inches long.
The stent now is out. The doctor and nurse leave no room for small talk and literally look at me, ask if I'm good and then say have a nice day and leave. I clean up, get dressed and walk out of that place. I feel absolutely embarrassed and almost ashamed. Basically violated. LOL. I never want to deal with that shame again. LOL.

I have a picture of the stent, but won't post it unless people really are curoius.
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Damn, f¥€k, he’ll, damn…. That hurts just reading it. Thanks for sharing, I was grossed out by the photos but your story brings a whole new level of agony.

Heal well and no revisits.

Florida AF · Jan 15, 2025

1794TX said: ↑

Here and there.

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I have that cup in Khaki.. love my Bucees stops!

nobodyintexas said: ↑

and yes...Volquartsen.
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Great, another tab now open... Good luck with the battle, do not! I repeat do not use alka seltzer!!!

OldGuy03 · Jan 15, 2025

T-Rex266 said: ↑

I’ll allow it

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Until he shows up at your house to take your daughter on a date.

1794TX · Jan 15, 2025

OldGuy03 said: ↑

Until he shows up at your house to take your daughter on a date.
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And invites your wife to Chapparone.

AZBoatHauler · Jan 15, 2025

Azblue said: ↑

Yeah, no shit. Good thing I drink a gallon or 2 of Miller Lite every day. Hopefully keep those away.
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Beer might be safer than our hard ass water.

Azblue · Jan 15, 2025

AZBoatHauler said: ↑

Beer might be safer than our hard ass water.
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Very true.

Randy Morton · Jan 15, 2025

kirkb said: ↑

What Is Spam Made Of?
Spam contains six ingredients: a mixture of pork and ham meat, salt, water, potato starch, sugar, and sodium nitrite, a food preservative added to bacon, hot dogs, cured meats, sausage, and smoked fish. Aside from adding potato starch in the 1990s, Spam's recipe is relatively unchanged.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

Sorry, had to be done.

OldGuy03 · Jan 15, 2025

She's home. Here's the short list of mods I'm already looking at.

On the way:
second set of wheels with studded tires.
18" black discount tire 8 spoke wheel wrapped in a 255/55/18 nokian studded winter tire.

on the list:
blackout chrome window trim overlay kit. (Note that the above photo displays both the wheel set and window trim).

22 volt solutions plug and play remote start

I have also learned that the HU will connect via Bluetooth for music, calls and texts but is not fully CarPlay functional as we can't connect Google maps or Mirror the phones screen for hands free use. So I'll need an Integration Kit to give me access to 100% CarPlay functionality.

Darker tint

NWPirate · Jan 15, 2025

OldGuy03 said: ↑

She's home here's a short list of mods I'm already looking at.

On the way:
second set of wheels with studded tires.
18" black discount tire 8 spoke wheel wrapped in a 255/55/18 nokian studded winter tire.

on the list:
blackout chrome window trim overlay kit. (Note that the above photo displays both the wheel set and window trim).

22 volt solutions plug and play remote start

I have also learned that the HU will connect via Bluetooth for music, calls and texts but is not fully CarPlay functional as we can't connect Google maps or Mirror the phones screen for hands free use. So I'll need an Integration Kit to give me access to 100% CarPlay functionality.
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Congrats!
Picked up a 3rd vehicle? I must of missed that

T-Rex266 · Jan 15, 2025

IMXPLRN said: ↑

Here's a pic of the stent. It's the light blue thing with the curled ends.

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JFC

T-Rex266 · Jan 15, 2025

OldGuy03 said: ↑

Until he shows up at your house to take your daughter on a date.
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Warreng · Jan 15, 2025

OldGuy03 said: ↑

She's home. Here's the short list of mods I'm already looking at.

On the way:
second set of wheels with studded tires.
18" black discount tire 8 spoke wheel wrapped in a 255/55/18 nokian studded winter tire.

on the list:
blackout chrome window trim overlay kit. (Note that the above photo displays both the wheel set and window trim).

22 volt solutions plug and play remote start

I have also learned that the HU will connect via Bluetooth for music, calls and texts but is not fully CarPlay functional as we can't connect Google maps or Mirror the phones screen for hands free use. So I'll need an Integration Kit to give me access to 100% CarPlay functionality.

Datker tint
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Nice!
A Porsche Panamera would be my winter beater if I had FU money.

OldGuy03 · Jan 15, 2025

NWPirate said: ↑

Congrats!
Picked up a 3rd vehicle? I must of missed that
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Yeah. I posted about it in the what did you buy thread. We had been looking for a good used truck for my upcoming 16 year old. After much ado talked the wife into getting her a new car instead and we are going to sell the sequoia to the kiddo. Keeps the beloved 1st gen in the driveway. Wife is happy, secretly so am I, and we get to help our daughter learn what it's like to earn things.

OldGuy03 · Jan 15, 2025

Warreng said: ↑

Nice!
A Porsche Panamera would be my winter beater if I had FU money.
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a panorama would be sick. having owned Volkswagens in the past, I'm not gonna be startled when I realize how over engineered everything is.

NWPirate · Jan 15, 2025

OldGuy03 said: ↑

Yeah. Had been looking for a good used truck for my upcoming 16 year old. After much ado talked the wife into getting her a new car instead and we are going to sell the sequoia to the kiddo. Keeps the beloved 1st gen in the driveway. Wife is happy, and secretly so am I.
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Nice dude, what year is the Porsche?

Azblue · Jan 15, 2025

OldGuy03 said: ↑

She's home. Here's the short list of mods I'm already looking at.

On the way:
second set of wheels with studded tires.
18" black discount tire 8 spoke wheel wrapped in a 255/55/18 nokian studded winter tire.

on the list:
blackout chrome window trim overlay kit. (Note that the above photo displays both the wheel set and window trim).

22 volt solutions plug and play remote start

I have also learned that the HU will connect via Bluetooth for music, calls and texts but is not fully CarPlay functional as we can't connect Google maps or Mirror the phones screen for hands free use. So I'll need an Integration Kit to give me access to 100% CarPlay functionality.

Darker tint
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How big of a lift you need to put 35s on that thing?

T-Rex266 · Jan 15, 2025

Azblue said: ↑

How big of a lift you need to put 35s on that thing?
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35’s are outplayed. Go 40’s

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