Kidney Stone

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Maybe some of you have been through the drill. Quite the kick in the nuts. Nuff to make a grown man cry. Not quite "just shoot me and make it stop" territory. Odd thing was the doctor said not to do any activities where a sudden sharp pain would cause a problem. He freaked out a bit when I mentioned running a chainsaw near my chest. He had a valid point. There are times when you wouldn't want to involuntarily flinch! Once the stone is passed the risk is gone.

Been a long time since I was so grateful for pain meds.
 
Haven't had that yet. A few times a year the gout kicks in and I can't walk, put a sock on or even have a bed sheet touching my foot (feet). Excruciating pain. Work is totally out of the question for about a week when that happens. Best I can do it get to a chair from the bed.
I can relate to what you are going through to some extent. Lets hope it is over soon.
 
Kidney stones would be awful !

In 2019 I had my 2nd episode w/ shingles. It lasted for 5 weeks.
My doctor gave me ever increasingly strong pain meds.

When we got to Morphine (3 increasing strengths), I encountered some problems.
Because of the opioid epidemic, Congress in their infinite wisdom, dictated that I had to pick-up the Rx from the doctor's office, & then take it to the pharmacy in-person ! ! !

I could barely walk, let alone drive.
Twice I considered calling 911 & asking if they would drive me the 30 miles to the doctor.

(Later my doctor actually testified in Congress about how stupid this stipulation was !)
  • The doctor explained to me a couple times, this doesn’t eliminate the pain, it just “takes the edge off”.
  • The Morphine really screwed up my digestive / bowel system. I actually stopped the Morphine before the pain ceased..

  • Recommendation: Get the Shingles Vaccine ! ! !
 
I had a kidney stone in my late twenties. I went from mild back pain to I think I'm going to die. I have a pretty high pain tolerance so when my brother got the call to drive me to the hospital and saw me rocking back and forth in pain he was quite worried. I saw a triage nurse in the Emergency Department who guessed it was a kidney stone based on the level and location of the pain as well as the rapid onset. She gave me a shot of dilaudid and a urine specimen cup and sent me back to the waiting area because there were sick kids ahead of me who the docs see first. About 10 minutes later I peed out an almost BB-sized stone shaped like a crescent moon. It was slicing and dicing me all the way from kidney to the end of the hose haha. She said it was abnormally large and wasn't surprised that I was in so much pain. Haven't had one since and I'm 47 now.
 
rocking back and forth in pain - I hear ya - my style was more like a squirming motion with leg and feet shuffling trying to find any position to lessen the pain. Scared my wife. Haven't conclusively passed the stone yet but the pain subsided. ? I'm in a sort of limbo right now.

Maybe google made a mistake and those are really pictures of woodworking or mining implements :)
 
I had a kidney stone last summer, after my first visit to the hospital they sent me home with some pain meds and told me it should pass. A full week later, it hadn’t moved a bit, and the pain was getting far worse. I went back to the hospital, they measured it again and decided it was actually twice the size they had told me originally. it had my ureter blocked so badly that my left kidney was not functioning very much at all, so they took me to surgery in a hurry and removed it.

Last weekend, my father had a kidney stone, exact repeat of my story except that he didn’t wait a week to go back to the hospital, it only took him three days before he couldn’t tolerate the pain anymore. Now he is at home recovering. Fortunately I don’t think he had any kidney damage, because stone wasn’t stuck for quite as long. They still mis-measured it badly the first time though.

Last time I had pain anything near that bad was 10 years ago when I had appendicitis, and I’m not sure that was even as painful as the kidney stone was.
 
It was May 2020 and I was climbing and trimming a tree in my own front yard when I started feeling uncomfortable... like maybe I was getting sick or was kicked in the gut. I rappelled to ground and told my wife I wasn't feeling well and laid down. The pain came in waves and was beyond excruciating and felt like it was everywhere inside my abdominal area from front to back in the left center. Moving made it worse. Called the doctor and he said it's either a back spasm or a stone... called a friend who verified the ER was jammed with Covid cases and so I decided to see if I could get thru it. 24 hours later, the pain was mostly gone... 2 days later, I am fine... but I didn't pass the stone... I had no idea why not. I forgot about it... unbelievable, but it took 11 months to get from the kidney to the "door" ... blood in urine first... passed 2 days later. Not fun.

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I'd do thorough research for preventative care; it seems some intakes and foods increase the chance of this major health crisis. Those who are not health focused these days are asking for trouble. But it's about balance in diet and life. I had a friend who had atherosclerosis who had stents put in went on a plant based diet. He was dead within a year with stage 4 cancer coming first. An older brother went a similar path, with mouth cancer and high levels of pain requiring a huge amount of care, plant based diet when the family always did well with quality meat, eggs and dairy. I consume a lot of quality herbs and healthy veggies too, but would not want to do without the animal products. And losing weight has become a fetish, people think that if they are not svelte they are not healthy; not true at all.
 
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