I passed a kidney stone! Ask the MAN anything!

[GOPFighter]

Yeah, yeah, I started vomiting and didn't know why, then the pain in my lower abdomen got pretty damn intense. I didn't know what the hell was going on. Went to the doctor and had blood and urine tested. The doctor said those frightening words: your passing a kidney stone. Be prepared for some pain!

It took 30 hours of complete damn misery to pass and it hurt like HELL, but - hey - I'm tough...'cause I'm a LIBERAL and after years of ridicule and insults and vilification by neo-cons and fascists, I can face ANYTHING head on without cringing or batting an eye.

Of course I may vomit and cry like a colicky baby at times.....

:headbang:

[Guarionex]

1. did it go out your dick?

or is there a way to have surgery to remov eit...

I'm scared...I drink a lot of coke.....

[mark414]

9. drink beer instead

studies have shown that drinking about a beer a day reduces your risk...

[Fescue4u]

2. How'd ya like the morphine?

I'm an old hand at those damn things.

I get about one a year for the last 10 years.

[GOPFighter]

4. No morphine, just ...

...plenty of Tylenol 3. I was a loony head case for a few hours after it passed.

[Nikia]

3. Did they tell you that it is more painful for men?

Because it has further to go. When I had my kidney stone, they told me that it probably wouldn't be too much more painful going out the urethra since female's have short urethras. They were right. The stone was much more painful when it was going through the ureter (I believe that is the correct part) than when I urinated it out. I suppose that it could have had something to do with the pain pills though.

[GOPFighter]

6. Yeah,

...the passage from the kidney to the bladder was the worst. Everything after that was a piece of cake (or the meds!).

[yellowdogintexas]

17. that is when I was the sickest. Once the thing dropped into my

bladder, I was home free.

I hope I never get one of those big staghorn ones that has to be ultrasaounded out, though. ugh.

[TexasProgresive]

18. My Dad passed several stones

and always said it was more painful then having a baby. I said how would you know did you ever have a baby. A few years ago I was in the OBGYN wing of a hospital and told this story at the nurses station. One of the nurses said she passed a stone and was the mother of 3 kids. She said she'd rather have 3 more kids then pass another stone.

[GCP]

5. I thought they could zap them with ultrasound and make them break up

to be able to pass them easier. Why didn't your doc order it for you - some kind of sadist?

[crimson333]

8. they usually only break a stone up if it is to big to pass on its own

I have had 18 of them and 3 surgerys

[GOPFighter]

10. Mine was too small to break up

Gee, suddenly I don't feel so tough....

Hey, You da' man!

[crimson333]

12. I would gladly be a wimp

if It meant I wouldn't have another one

[roguevalley]

14. they are finding with that treatment that it can destroy organs such

as the liver. I would NEVER recommend that. My uncle found out the hard way how much that hurts, ultra sound vibrations. (sitting in a tank of water treatment one)

[mark414]

7. oh shit

you are a trooper man, i hope i NEVER have to go through that

[warrens]

11. I've passed about, oh, 200 fragments

Including one the size of a gold nugget.

I feel for ya. My insides are so stretched now I barely feel them. The blood is the tipoff.

[roguevalley]

13. Huggies

>>Of course I may vomit and cry like a colicky baby at times.....

BWAHAHAHAHA! Please note I am laughing WITH you, not AT you, honey bunny

This is, according to my uncle, the closest a man can feel to child birth. Get well soon, honey. My 88 year old aunt just passed one two days ago. You are in good dem company.

[yellowdogintexas]

15. now you know what labor is like, except labor is easier

had a stone and had a baby without drugs.
I was begging for drugs with the kidney stone.
Baby was much easier/

[ScreamingMeemie]

16. Poor baby! Glad it's out. That's just awful.

Feel better? :hug: