Kidney Stones (horror stories anyone?)

[JCMach1]

9mm and stuck in my ureter. It has made it to the bottom 1/3, but I have been in constant pain since Saturday.

The worst part is that he wants me to try to pop it out naturally. However, if it doesn't do that in the next 10 days I will get the SCOPE up the YOU KNOW WHERE.

At least it is a lovely egg shape.

:(

[MissHoneychurch]

1. ...

:hug:

I hope you get rid of the kidney stones faster than in 10 days!!!

[JCMach1]

2. you and me both...

[Skittles]

3. you want I should kick some kidney stone ass, JCMACH

just be thankful it doesn't have antlers

tell me "he" gave you some pain medication

[JCMach1]

4. Opiates are essentially illegal in the UAE so I

only get COX-2 stuff.

So yes, I get to enjoy every minute of the pain.

[bobmorr1]

5. 1 cm stone

I had a 1 cm. stone blocking the ureter also. Had to have lithotripsy. Thats where they bombard it in a tub of water. You're put under anesthetic and they bombard it for about 1 hr. I than had to have a stent. This was between the kidney and bladder. Everytime you had to pee it felt like a knife in your side. The stent really sucked. That was to keep the ureter opened while the sand from bombarding was passed out. A 9 mm. is large, ask about lithotripsy. Less damage that way.

[JCMach1]

9. It has reached the bottom 1/3 where blasting isn't as effective

and since some flow is getting through he doesn't yet want to do the scope.

[peekaloo]

6. My father kept a couple of "trophies".

While going through his belongings I found a couple of plastic bottles that the doctors had given him as a "memento". One of those tiny beasts is easily the size of the fingernail on my ring finger (can't quite make out the Dr.'s scribble on the label on actual size). :scared:

My dad never admitted to being in pain but I still remember the night he passed this thing because he came to my bedroom door (I was in high school) around 1 a.m. and asked me to take him to the hospital.

Later on in his life he would travel to Gainesville where they would use a laser to break up the stones to make the exit a "little" less painful. :-( (He kept one of those small ones, too.)

I feel for ya.

[MorningGlow]

7. Lovely little beggars, aren't they?

I haven't had the pleasure of their company, but I have had to minister to Mr. MG several times when he had some. I particularly enjoyed the projectile vomiting in the middle of the night. Oh yeah, and the trip to the doctor that took twice as long because I had to stop every half a mile so he could barf on the side of the road. HE particularly enjoyed the Vicodin. ;)

He is now a big, BIG proponent of drinking water. Hasn't had any kidney-stone incidents in several years, thank goodness.

Just remember, JC--this, too, shall pass. But not before you curse it from here to the moon and back...good luck...

[ThomCat]

8. My last one was 12mm.

x(

With all the pain I'm in every day, and all the pain I've been in for years now, I have still never ever felt anything even close to as painful as the after-effects of that stone. After the laser surgery to finally break it up, after bleeding for over a month because of the stent they had to leave in, when the doctor finally pulled out that stent I SCREAMED for half an hour.

The local anesthetic and my own narcotic painkillers didn't do a damned thing to deaden that pain.

:(

[JCMach1]

10. So sorry Thom

OUCH!!!

[mockmonkey]

11. The Stent

It was the worst pain I have ever had when they went in for the stent. The stones coming out were a breeze compared to the stent removal.

The Doctor was training someone and I wasn't about to look at the garden hose?? they were using to get at it. When they hit the sphincter OH! GOD!!

The nurse said, "Oh, I forgot to tell you about that part." I'm glad he did forget. But next time I hope that they can put me under. Numbing Gel just doesn't go far enough.

After the removal I had to pee constantly. I couldn't even get to the parking lot without making another stop.

I think I will end up getting stones again. I dehydrate very easily.

[ThomCat]

15. Yes, I think I'll get another one too.

:(

I've had two so far. Because of my meds, and because my chronic fatigue has me sleeping often for long stretches at a time (over 24 hours at a time regularly) without hydrating, I'm going to be getting stones every few years.

I just hope neither of us ever get big stones ever again, and never, ever need stents inserted again to help them pass. :hug:

[Hell Hath No Fury]

12. Try ONE MONTH to pass a stone!

I had no idea I was passing a kidney stone -- I had turned over in bed, felt a sharp pain in my flank, and my back went into total spasm. I thought I had just tweaked my back really bad. Spent the first week unable to move much, then figured it was time to get to the doctor when I started to hallucinate a bit because I had only been able to sleep around 2 hours a night due to the pain during that week. Doc checked me out, concluded I had tweaked my back, and gave me some meds to relax my back. The first meds did squat, went back for something differant -- 30 milligrams of Valium finaly got the spasams under control and got me to sleep. I was two weeks into this thing and I felt like truck had run over me.

Things got weird when my pee turned dark.

First Doc said, "Time to see a urologist."

My problme? NO INSURANCE.

I had to find a urolgist to see me with no insurance, and one that could see me fast. I lucked out, found my guy, and had an appointment within a week. Testing showed I had a kidney stone, around 2/3 of the way on its journey. Since I was kind of close, the decision was made for me to ride it out for another week to see if I could pass it.

I knew things were moving when the damed thing hid my bladder. Yeegads are bladder spasms painful. :cry: The spams were so bad it felt like someone was trying to pull my girlie bits back inside. After two more very painful days it hit the urethra, which was kind of gross. I was riding a scooter at the time and I could feel it just sitting there, stabbing me with every bump in the road. :(

Four weeks after rolling over in bed I finally passed that fucking thing. When it came out I saw why I had had such an ordeal -- there were two stones, each around the size of a piece of jasmine rice, and they had formed together to create a "y" shape. When I touched the stones, they felt just like coral. :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:

All I have to do it think about kindey stones and my back does a little spasm.

And, sadly, that one kidney stone, five years ago, is the reason I am uninsurable today.

Good luck with yours -- drink water, water, and then some more water. Heck, if I had the scope option, I'd take it! You get good drugs and it's over and done with in a flash.

[yellowdogintexas]

20. sounds a lot like mine but thankfully mine was smaller but also like coral

I had my first attack on Columbus Day weekend and passed my stone the Monday after Thanksgiving.

Same syndrome flank pain, then I had tea colored urine 48 hours later. However no more pain so I figured I had passed the stone.

Next attack x 2 weeks later and I ended up in the E room and got some excellent drugs.

had xrays, etc. my doc couldn't find the stone, so we thought I had passed it.

another attack about 10 days later and my doc got me right over to the urologist, who found the stone on the xray, about 3 inches from my bladder. Said it was slipping down the ureter and getting stuck each time I had colic.

I was taking a trip over Thanksgiving so he gave me heavy duty Tylenol #4 in case I got sick on the plane, and told me to come to my next appointment with a suitcase packed because if I had not passed it by then he was going in after it.

I passed the stone the morning of the appointment. Caught it in the little mesh cup. It was an ugly scratchy mother too.

I had a baby 2 years later, w/o drugs. That was a breeze compared to a kidney stone.

[JCMach1]

24. He's given me 10days to pass it on my own

:(

Thank the diety mine is egg-shaped.

[hippywife]

13. Too many!

I throw them at the rate of about once every 1.5 years. x(

[ThomCat]

18. Oh wow!

:cry:

You have my full sympathy. :hug:

I hope you can somehow make them stop.

[hippywife]

31. Hi, Sweetpea!

Don't worry about me, babe. I have few problems compared to some as yourself. I hope things are going better for you these days.

:hug:

[JCMach1]

25. Oh my

[elleng]

29. Oh NO, hw! How awful!

Had gall stones, and NOTHING WHATSOEVER like these kid stones I've been reading about. Saw a bunch of gallsts on x/ray/mri, and said, OK folks, remove the whole shebang. No Probs at all.

Water Water everywhere, hw!

[mikeytherat]

14. Most unbearable pain I've ever experienced, and I've had TWO compound fractures!

Pumped full of morphine, and I still bent the stainless steel exam table from gripping it with my hands.

mikey_the_rat

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. Hubby had one. It was horrendous poor guy. I hope your resolves soon!

[madrchsod]

17. i had a heart attack and i had kidney stone

kidney stone pain was worse. catheters and scopes are so much fun....be sure to ask for opiates

[JCMach1]

26. There are NO opiates in the UAE

:(

[yellowdogintexas]

19. I would deliver twins w/o drugs before I would have another stone, given

the choice.

If your stone is in the bottom 1/3, you will get it out w/o surgery, I think. They turn and get stuck which causes urine to back up into your kidney and that is why it hurts so much. Mine felt like I had a steel rod in my back.

However you will be sedated for the scope up the you know what.

Mine was rough and craggy, but once it got into my bladder, I was home free.

I carried Tylenol #4 around with me everywhere I went for YEARS in fear of another attack, and I never enjoyed caving after that either for fear of an attack of renal colic while 4 hours deep underground.

Drink LOTS and LOTS of water!!!

[hunter]

21. I had one once, and not for long. I drank lots of water and it passed.

I think it's a toss up between that and my worst lying on the bathroom floor in the dark puking my guts up and I don't want to move so kill me now migraine but a hell of a lot more focused and intense too.

I'm so sorry for you and I cringe in sympathy.

[Kali]

22. shot of morphine

mine whizzed (pun?) right out


ahhhh, drugs they are what's for dinner

[Manifestor_of_Light]

23. I had a bunch of attacks last year.

Got an ultrasound. One big one in a kidney. The pain was on the left side of my waist, about 3 inches to the left of my navel. I had the usual guts out of control on both ends from the pain overriding everything.

It was ALMOST as bad as the ovarian cyst that popped and I ended up in the E.R.

I have not had lithotripsy.

Am drinking lots more water!!

[REP]

27. I pass them every 30-45 days

I had to have one removed from the lower pole of my left kidney - that was a scope, laser, basket, etc not only in the ureter but down in the kidney as well. Tore the ureter and I had a double-j stent in place for what seemed like forever. Husband claims I was screaming when anesthesia wore off; I think I was just moaning loudly.

[ThomCat]

28. That has to be disabling.

:(

Wow. I am so very sorry. I can't even imagine having stones that often.

[MissMillie]

30. 2 full weeks after being diagnosed

they did have to go up and take it out.

The good news about when they do that is that they usually go up into the kidneys and flush those out too, so you'll be clear from any new stones for a while.

[susanr516]

32. I've never had a kidney stone

But every friend who has suffered with them tells me it is the worst pain they ever experienced. Sending my sympathies and lots of good vibes for a quick passage. :hug: