I'm pretty sure I have a kidney stone

[MissMillie]

I've had one before, and this pain is too familiar.

Dammit! I'm going to spend the weekend in pain. This SUCKS!

[Maine-ah]

1. lots of water!

:hi:

[Qanisqineq]

2. ooh, I just had one today!

I went to the ER and they gave me fluids and tordol (?). I've had quite a few in the past few years but this one was especially painful. Every doctor I see gives different advice but this one told me to drink less water (I drink A LOT) and more gatorade. I don't like gatorade but with as many stones as I get, it's worth a try.

I knew one was coming the past few days because my bladder felt like it was always full but I never really had to go. While I was at the vet today, BOOM it hit. Ouch.

[MissMillie]

3. do yours pass quickly?

the last time I had one it lingered for 2 weeks, and the doctor finally decided to go in and get it.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

4. I've had some that pass in a day...

but the whopper I had four years took over a month to pass! Turns out it was two stones the size of rice grains that had fused in the shape of a "y" and it was coming out the wrong way.

That was the longest month of my life...

Hope yours passes quickly.

[Arugula Latte]

19. Ouch! A breach birth kidneystone ...

:scared:

[Qanisqineq]

15. I haven't passed it yet

I've had a few blasted while in my kidney and one that got stuck in my ureter until they went in and pulled it out. I hope yours passes quickly!

[Javaman]

5. How do you know? Do you rattle when you walk?

:shrug:

[Midlodemocrat]

6. Get some strong pain killers to get you throught the weekend.

[flamingyouth]

7. Ugh - take care

Once you've had one, you know that pain all too well. x(

Holding good thoughts for you. :hug:

[ThomCat]

8. Ouch. I'm sorry.

:(


I'm right there with you though. I'm pretty sure I'm growing my third. x(

Mine tend to be a relatively bearable pain until they get big, and I already take painkillers ever day for other reasons so that makes my stones easy to ignore until the urologist can deal with them.

I hope yours shatters easily and passes painlessly.

[ashling]

9. Two words:

more phine

[jobycom]

10. There's a virus going around here that feels like that.

I'm in Austin. Several people at my work have caught this thing. It starts off with a pain in the kidney area. One co-worker who had kidney stones in the past thought he was having another. Others thought they had gotten a tumor. After a few days, other muscles began aching, and a few days later coughing and congestion occured. The lines at the urgent care clinics are supposed to be long.

Just fyi.

[dannofoot]

11. My urologist has me

drinking the fresh-squeezed juice of one whole lemon every day - he says that it has been proven to help prevent the formation of stones.

I had 3 bouts with stones the past year - I'll try anything.

[REP]

13. Some Stones; Not CaOx or Apatite

Ask me how I know (I'm a consecutive stone former; pass them about every 30-45 days).

[hippywife]

14. Wow!

I've been passing them at the rate of one every 1.5 years for the past 20 years and I thought I had it bad. I would lose my mind if I was passing them at the rate you are.

And you are right. That lemon juice thing is for uric acid stones.

:hi: fellow sufferer!

[REP]

23. Daily Lemonade, Though ... Not A Bad Idea!

I adore lemonade, especially Trader Joe's ginger lemonade, so my urologist had me try it anyway on the theory it couldn't hurt plus it can help with citrate levels (they have no idea why I form so many stones, especially apatite, since I'm *very* acidic and apatite usually doesn't form in acidic environments).

Wouldn't be a great if the stones we formed were rubies and emeralds? Sure, wheddelite and whewellite are rare, but not that exciting! :hi:

[huskerlaw]

12. Ugh.

Been there, done that...not pleasant.

I'm sure you know the drill. Water and drugs.

All of mine have passed by themselves, some more quickly than others. The last one didn't even hurt until it was almost out. :shrug:

Best of luck!

[Taverner]

16. Yikes....

[xchrom]

17. worst. pain. i've. ever. had.

one thing i did was drink olive oil and lemon juice.


it's supposed to be unlikely though to get another one.

i wonder why you are getting two?

good news is though -- i got some morphine out of it. -- we -- not the stone -- my trip to the doctor cause i was unable to walk because of the pain. mmmm -- morphine - that was nice.

[MissMillie]

21. that's not what I heard

the urologist that removed my last kidney stone told me that if you have one, you have an 80% chance of getting a second one.

[CatholicEdHead]

18. Been there done that

Two Litotripisies before 30. I drink 5-6 glasses of water at work each day. If not I pop them out every 6-9 months. Most of my recent ones have been smaller ones which hurt a bit but pass without much of a notice.

[Orsino]

20. I'm sorry. I found that...

...a good painkiller and Jane Austen DVDs can help pass the time pleasantly.

[MissMillie]

22. update: doc confirms it

pain meds and water

if it's not gone by monday, they'll check to see if it's something that they'll need to go and get.

[wildhorses]

24. so sorry

:hug: