Thread: Owwwww, Kidney Stone

The first time I had a kidney stone I was in the Charlie Gardiner hospital in Subiaco. They put me straight on a diet of beer. They reckoned there was nothing like beer to flush the system thru. So the doc actually prescribed me beer. I HAD TO drink at least two bottles a day - not stubbies, 750 ml bottles. More if I wanted to. but I struggled to get thru the two a day.

The guy in the bed next to had come in from a small place on the trans Australia railway line, and had had his bottle of Johnnie Walker confiscated. He was not impressed! Reckoned it was favouritism.

BTW - it worked. The stone did come out after a day or two. But there were more waiting ... as I found out a few years later.

Willem

there you go Hymie get stuck into it for your birthday and I will have one here for you also

Mrs ho har

Beer, now there's a thought!!!!
I'll have to drink a fair bit, it's a 7 to 9mm stone

Originally Posted by willem

The first time I had a kidney stone I was in the Charlie Gardiner hospital in Subiaco. They put me straight on a diet of beer. They reckoned there was nothing like beer to flush the system thru. So the doc actually prescribed me beer. I HAD TO drink at least two bottles a day - not stubbies, 750 ml bottles. More if I wanted to. but I struggled to get thru the two a day.

The guy in the bed next to had come in from a small place on the trans Australia railway line, and had had his bottle of Johnnie Walker confiscated. He was not impressed! Reckoned it was favouritism.

BTW - it worked. The stone did come out after a day or two. But there were more waiting ... as I found out a few years later.

Willem

So I'll never have to much trouble passing kidney stones then, cause I like beer

Originally Posted by The ho har's

he told me after he went over the railway line the hosp couldn't find any stones so we assume he passed them after crossing the railway line


Mrs ho har

Exactly the same thing happened to me, extreme pain, could hardly walk to the car, 5 mins after railway line and I was walking into the hospital cool as a cucumber. Evidence of passing a stone but no actual stone.

I don't think mine was a real bad one but I get gout and it is much worse than my kidney stone.

WoooHooo, all gone!!!
Had a Cystoscopy and the mongrel was blasted by a Laser, I'm just about back on my feet too!

Funny - last weekend, I had a pancreatic attack at 4:00am. Woke up in huge amount of pain, wife called doctor, then an ambulance.

First question they all ask is "on a scale of 1 to 10, how bad is the pain".

Easy one that - it's worse than passing a kidney stone. Been there, done that. Didnt think anything could be worse, but I was wrong.

So, a mixture of morphine & valium, no eating or drinking anything for 4 days, massive amounts of IV fluid, and things are looking better.

Now just have to wait until next week to see what the surgeon has to say...

That's not bad, 2 weeks to see a surgeon.
I'm still waiting for my "Urgent" Urologists appointment from the original episode on April 26th!
It's only been 3 weeks since I was admitted to hospital in Warragul, transferred to Monash for surgery and 5 days in there getting bumped off the surgery list before being sent home on a course of Endone and Indicid.
Mmmmmm Endone, no wonder people get hooked on the stuff.