Owwwww, Kidney Stone

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Originally Posted by The Cone of Silence

I have a kidney stone. It's my first....brought on from a lifestyle of never drinking enough water.

I thought "I know what, I'll see if anyone on the forum has any experience" and I'm not sure whether I'm glad that I did nor not. Outstanding horror stories, folks.

So, after a CT scan to figure out why I had quite so much claret in my water, they found a stone in my left kidney of around 6mm in diameter....and a benign tumor in my right one. Doc isn't sure which is causing the haematuria but says that flushing out the stone is the first thing to do.

It's been a week - I'm drinking GALLONS of water and while I have no back pain anymore (never really had a lot anyway), I doubt I've passed the stone because from what you lot are telling me, it's horrendously painful when it comes out the front door.

How long does it take to flush the buggers out? Everytime I go for a wee it's like playing Russian Roulette.

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some don't

i had to have a cystoscopy as mine became lodged in the top of the bladder and they couldnt find it after all manner of scans

nearly a week of pain on a scale i hadnt experienced before

into hospital for day surgery for a cystoscopy under full anaesthesia thankfully

when they found it they shoved another tool up and cut the valve, pulled the stone out and put in a stint that i had to go back in and get removed two weeks later under full anaesthesia.

pain on a scale i haven't experienced before, to the point i couldnt get a breath, i kid you not for many hours after.

taking a leak was like passing pure acid disguised as blood for the first few hours.

going back to get the stint out took some doing i can tell you...

i drink a lot of water these days :p

If you have stinging nettles in the garden, pick some leaves and make a brew. Or, pick up a box from the store.

Alot of people are swearing by it. 1 cup a day for a few weeks, every few months, and you'll never see them again.

My sympathies...

Had one a few years ago, took only minutes from the first twinge to gasping pain... then about 20 minutes later at the local GP clinic it was so intense that I could not think/reason/comprehend exactly what I was feeling, - except it HURT.

Carted me off to a hospital where they pumped me full of something that sent me off to sleepy-land. (Either the pain reduced to bearable or I was'nt worrying about it..or anything)

X-rayed or scanned (hazy memories) and found it in the kidney on the way out, surgery scheduled for next day if it had'nt passed.

Despite "all" urine being filtered... it must have slipped past the eagle-eyed (foreign-born) Nurses... and I reckon the surgeon was a bit P'd off (sorry, pun just happened) 'cos I was passing blood-coloured water for over a week.

Beats Cardiac proceedures for getting 'sympathy' from ICU Nurses :p :p :p

Now drink more water than I used to...

The wife has had several attacks of the dreaded stones and got told by an older GP to go home with 6L of Coke (fuul strenght) let in go flat and then get it down your neck as quick as possible. Then in the next breath said you really shouldn't drink that much Coke. She tried it and hasn't had a problem since was several years ago now. Can image it would dissolvve them considering I have used it for degreaser in the past just to see if it really works.

Zacc

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Originally Posted by incisor

... and put in a stint that i had to go back in and get removed two weeks later ...<snip>
going back to get the stint out took some doing i can tell you...

i drink a lot of water these days :p

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So Inc you had a stint in for a stent??? :o

Or should that have been a stent in for a stint? ;)

I'm going to have a glass of water now!

Either way, it was a rotten stunt.

When I passed the stones the Dr told me that it is one of the more severe pains that the human body can experience. In some cases the pain leave marks in the hearth.
I have marks in mine.
The thing that really made me very upset was that I have to endure the pain without pain killers because the emergency Dr was under the impression that I was after free drugs :mad:

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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

So Inc you had a stint in for a stent??? :o

Or should that have been a stent in for a stint? ;)

I'm going to have a glass of water now!

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segh!