Kidney stones

I ended up in the emergency room last night with kidney stones. Sweet jebus it hurts. I don't recommend this to anyone.

Well I guess I can cross them off my bucket list.

At work, we get sent out any time someone dials 911 for a medical problem.

I have never seen anyone in more pain than kidney stone patients. This includes motorcycle accidents, broken teeth and amputations.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I have had several run ins with those damn things and E36 M3 oh dear do they ever hurt.

True story: went to a Lamaze class with the ex, the FemiNazi running the class says 'there is no way a man can understand the pain of childbirth'. Ex points at me, says 'he's had kidney stones'. FemiNazi: 'I take that back'.

Had 'em once at 22. Yep, smash my balls flat with a rock so I will pass out! Never had them again.

My son got them at 19, haven't had them since.

Curmudgeon, peeing a bowling ball with spikes?

Curmudgeon wrote: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I have had several run ins with those damn things and E36 M3 oh dear do they ever hurt. True story: went to a Lamaze class with the ex, the FemiNazi running the class says 'there is no way a man can understand the pain of childbirth'. Ex points at me, says 'he's had kidney stones'. FemiNazi: 'I take that back'.

My Wife had both of our kids naturally and has had kidney stones. She said the kidney stones where worse. At least I'm getting lots of sympathy.

I had one maybe 10 years ago, my late 30s:

8:15 - Drop DD#2 off at school, feeling a mite queasy, unknown cause.

8:21 - Major twinge throughout entire middle of body and decide to head home.

8:32 - Park car haphazardly in driveway, stumble to door doubled over. Ring own doorbell.

8:44 - Fetal position in back seat of van with wife driving me to ER. Feels like red hot rusty wire being shoved through abdomen from back to front, slightly off center.

9:07 - Stumble up to ER desk gasping, point to navel and small of back with 2 hands; nurse says "I bet you're passing a kidney stone!"

9:42 - Radiology confirms.

10:05 - On a gurney in the hall with IV morphine starting up.

????? - Vaguely aware of surroundings.

12:40 - Instantly have to urinate worse than I ever had to in my life. Lurch to feet, drag morphine stand into closest bathroom.

12:44 - Kneel in front of toilet staring confusedly at own nonfunctioning penis.

12:48 - Reach into suddenly yellow toilet bowl to retrieve chunk of rock larger than the engagement stone I gave my wife. Somehow remember to wash hands before leaving.

12:50 - Blessed relief.

I never even got admitted and spent the entire time on a gurney in the hall of the ER. My poor wife remembers the ????? interlude as including a couple of hours listening to some junkie trying to wheedle the doctor into refilling an oxy prescription.

To this day, if I really have to urinate heavily, I can feel the length of the tube between my left kidney and my bladder.

914Driver wrote: Had 'em once at 22. Yep, smash my balls flat with a rock so I will pass out! Never had them again. My son got them at 19, haven't had them since. Curmudgeon, peeing a bowling ball with spikes?

That's close. Holy cow those things hurt. First time I had an attack I was at work, I came straight up off my chair. Instant nausea, I ran to the toilet and vomited. It hurt so bad that I was sweating, it dripped off my nose and made a pufddle on the floor.

I had dozens (yes, DOZENS) of them when I was 16. Urinary tract, among other things, got destroyed in a car wreck and I had catheters (yes again, plural) in place for almost an entire year. Basically had a constant UTI while the catheters were there. The result was lots of kidney stones and it was miserable until everything healed up. I completely feel for you and hope you pass it soon!

Dealing with gallstone now. 15mm. Hoping to hear from the surgeon shortly.

I had them when I was 25 or so. I got them 2 days after being laid off and loosing my insurance. Nothing like curling up in a ball on the bathroom floor in a pool of your own vomit.

Its the only thing in my life that I've ever seen take down my old man.

Duke wrote: I had one maybe 10 years ago, my late 30s: 8:15 - Drop DD#2 off at school, feeling a mite queasy, unknown cause. 8:21 - Major twinge throughout entire middle of body and decide to head home. 8:32 - Park car haphazardly in driveway, stumble to door doubled over. Ring own doorbell. 8:44 - Fetal position in back seat of van with wife driving me to ER. Feels like red hot rusty wire being shoved through abdomen from back to front, slightly off center. 9:07 - Stumble up to ER desk gasping, point to navel and small of back with 2 hands; nurse says "I bet you're passing a kidney stone!" 9:42 - Radiology confirms. 10:05 - On a gurney in the hall with IV morphine starting up. ????? - Vaguely aware of surroundings. 12:40 - Instantly have to urinate worse than I ever had to in my life. Lurch to feet, drag morphine stand into closest bathroom. 12:44 - Kneel in front of toilet staring confusedly at own nonfunctioning penis. 12:48 - Reach into suddenly yellow toilet bowl to retrieve chunk of rock larger than the engagement stone I gave my wife. Somehow remember to wash hands before leaving. 12:50 - Blessed relief. I never even got admitted and spent the entire time on a gurney in the hall of the ER. My poor wife remembers the ????? interlude as including a couple of hours listening to some junkie trying to wheedle the doctor into refilling an oxy prescription. To this day, if I really have to urinate heavily, I can feel the length of the tube between my left kidney and my bladder.

This is my story, almost to the tee.

After talking to my urologists, he said women who went through labor and had kidney stones said kidney stones were worse.

Mine were the uric acid type, caused by dehydration. I used to laugh at the guys who drank lots of water all the time, then I started shedding kidney stones. I had several attacks over a period of about 5 years. I now stay hydrated all the time.

Curmudgeon wrote: Mine were the uric acid type, caused by dehydration. I used to laugh at the guys who drank lots of water all the time, then I started shedding kidney stones. I had several attacks over a period of about 5 years. I now stay hydrated all the time.

I've never had them, but thank you for reinforcing my desire to drink at least 3 liters of water day.

health reports suggest peanuts in the diet can help break up the crystalization process of a stone before they reach dangerous size.... interesting reading.

My brother in law just had one. Sure got a lot of mileage out of his suffering.

Hey, thats what family is there for!

My wife has a condition called renal tubular acidosis. Basically body doesn't properly store potassium, so the calcium builds and causes chronic kidney stones. Literally hundreds. We go to the ER about 2x/yr for that.

Another one in the been there/done that camp. Woke up at ~3 am with severe pain. Got better, then worse, then better.....then worse! Was in the car going to the ER before 7 am. Got in a bed (same thing as y'all above -- got diagnosed as they are checking me in!) got drugs started, then a CT scan to confirm. Took 3 or 4 days for it to pass......and had the random pain/random vomiting the whole time. At least the drugs lessened the frequency of those.

I think I hugged every woman who had children for a year afterwards........amazing that women have more than 1 kid!

I've had one... occasionally I get twinges to make me think I have may have another one. The one I had got lodged at the top of my bladder, so it never made it far enough that i had to go through the misery of passing it. Eventually, the urologist went up the "out hole" and broke it up with a laser and removed it. Having the stone lodged above my bladder was painful at times, but I can imagine passing the stone would have been much worse.

Five rounds of stones, worst was last summer, of the two this- E.R. doc says " Yes you have a kidney stone also it shows a growth on your kidney and a gall stone" Also no insurance, was laid off a month before so it was 10,473.71 out of my pocket. Morphine and Tordahl will put me to sleep, no more pain.

I had one 5 years ago. While at work, in about an hour I went from ... I think I need to lay down in my office floor, to I am going home, to take me to the ER! They hooked up an IV with Dilaudid and the pain was gone ... That was maybe 6 hrs in the ER and an $8500 bill to my insurance. I never saw the stone even though I peed in a strainer for a week. My urologist said that it could stay in the bladder for years.

Three months later, I am in Germany and I start feeling the same pain, by then I knew what it was. Went to the ER on a Sunday in Munich ... and was out in 3 hours or so and $300 euro. Peed the stone two days later and never caught it. I just got a CT Scan for an unrelated issue and the lady asked me if I suffered from my kidneys ... she said I have one stone in each kidney @1mm each, great.

J

z31maniac wrote:

Curmudgeon wrote: Mine were the uric acid type, caused by dehydration. I used to laugh at the guys who drank lots of water all the time, then I started shedding kidney stones. I had several attacks over a period of about 5 years. I now stay hydrated all the time.

I've never had them, but thank you for reinforcing my desire to drink at least 3 liters of water day.

I already crave water all damn day as it is. Maybe that is why I have never had one. God, I hope I never get any, it sounds like the worst pain ever. I think I would rather get shot in the arm or leg or something.

Also been there some that . Woke u at like 4 am on my birthday one year and it felt like somebody tied my you know what's in a knot. I didn't want to go to the er button wife made me when I started dry heaving and had tears in my eyes lol. Everyone was like "oh happy birthday, oh I'm sorry." When they looked at my chart

Coworker has something similar to Mndsm's wife. He used to have surgery every few years. Now he sits in a tub and they blast the little buggers with ultrasonics, they run out like sand.

Thank you techno geeks!