Dang! Another freaking kidney stone

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I feel for ya Fishy!
I have been lucky and only passed one so far - and that was 1 to many!
Hope ya feel better soon.

Later,
Bruce B.
 
Rod Master said:
I know how you fell i have past over thirty of them little basterds
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WOW! I hope you have a high tolerance for pain. Did they ever have you pee through a strainer to catch it so they could analyze what is causing them?

7071DartGTReg said:
I feel for ya Fishy!
I have been lucky and only passed one so far - and that was 1 to many!
Hope ya feel better soon.

Later,
Bruce B.
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Thanks Bruce. Hope you never get another.
 
I feel yo pain..... I get them maybe once or twice a year. Such a joy.
Good luck.... may they pass quickly and uneventfully.


-RPM
 
I have kidney stones also. Think I have one stuck in me. Really painful to urinate. And now I am getting the sharp stinging pains through my intestines again. They come and go. I just recently finished antibiotics and the pain was gone but this morning and last night it started to return. it is very, very, painful.
 
After suffering for years with those things, I switched from coffee to tea and got rid of all of the pain. When I look at the used coffee filter I imagine all those grinds being in my kidneys. It might by psychosomatic but it works. I do miss the coffee though LOL.
 
My poor Dad has had at least two a year for the last 45 years! They have done numerous surgeries over the years and have yet to find a cause. It has been a plague on the poor guy. He never has let him beat him though, rarely missed a day of work over it.

I hope you guys have better luck!
 
Tracy, Sure hope it all comes out in the end for you. I've been lucky and have never had one. A friend of mine suffers from them and they bring him to his knees.
 
There are different types of stones (3 I think), one of them is caused by tea. Another is caused by dehydration and the other is caused by bad luck (genetics). I'm not a doctor and I don't play one on TV, so I can't remember the names, but if you get one, try to catch it, fish it out or what ever you have to do to get it analized to find out which level of hell you are currently in. Mine were the dehydration kind (with a little of the bad luck mixed in), but it was enough to make me give up drinking tea, gatoraid, soda, almost anything with sugar and make me hyper-aware of the color of my urine at any given moment! Spending a few days curled up sleeping around the base of the toilet will certainly give you the motivation to change your lifestyle!!

Also, Flowmax helps. See if your dr will give you a sample. When I took it there was no generic, so it was like, $90 for a month's supply, but you only need to take it when you feel a stone, it "opens you up" and helps it pass.
 
Had kidney stone attacks ever other month, finally had one anilized and found had a lot of uric acid in it. started taking APO-ALLOPURINOL for it, its for gout.I haven't had a stone in 7 years.
 
Aw, fer crumb's sake. Sorry to read it. I get them too—calcium oxalate ones, the most common kind. See here for my tale of woe. After the most recent one in '08, they sent me to a dietitician who explained exactly what is going on: oxalates will bind with calcium. If there's calcium in what I'm eating with the oxalates, they'll bind in my gut and be eliminated, no problem. If there's insufficient calcium in what I'm eating, the oxalates will bind with calcium in the kidney and cause stones. So cut oxalates to a minimum: no more tea (herbal is ok), no more spinach or rhubarb or other dark green leafies (chard, watercress, etc — anything cabbage-related is fine, tho, as are crucifers and other vegetables), cut peanuts and tree nuts to a minimum, be reasonable with the amount of chocolate I eat, and eat or drink dairy or take a calcium tablet just before eating any green vegetables (they all contain oxalates). So far so good (knock wood).
 
Wow sounds like I'm real lucky compared to a few guys that have them a lot. 2006 was the first one I ever had and they had me catch it in a strainer when it came out and analyzed it and it was because of a medicine I was taking. They switched meds and I haven't had one until 6 weeks ago I had one in the left kidney and now one in the right kidney. I'm seeing a diff. doc than I was in 06 and this one never said anything about trying to catch it for analyzing. Wish he would. If this happens again I'm going to say something to him and see if I can get a strainer to catch it.

I rarely drink coffee or soda. Mostly water and fruit juice but a little Gatorade here and there and a cup of green tea every morning. I have been a chocolate hog lately so maybe I better back off of that. I can't say my diet is the best. I should look at that too.

Swetpt I do have problems with Gout on and off and lately it's got a lot worse so I made an appt. next month to see a specialist about that. I'll mention the stones to him and see what he says.

Thanks to everyone with suggestions on what to eat and drink and watch for and the well wishes.
 
I have had them and they are no fun.

If you fill your tub with as hot of water as you can stand and then lay in it the pain goes away temporary.
 
KP said:
I have had them and they are no fun.

If you fill your tub with as hot of water as you can stand and then lay in it the pain goes away temporary.
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The pain only seems to come in episodes lasting a few minutes to 1/2 hr. The doc said that's when it's on the move. When it hits it hits real hard so I'm not sure I could even manage to get the water run and in the tub.
 
Hello Fishy68 my brother. I pass them on occasion. I know I'm about to pass one when I feel a pain run up the right side of my body through my right lung.(deferred pain). Then I get a pain in my nuts, then it moves to my lower back. It takes some, more than a couple weeks, to pass. I feel your pain. MMG
 
The first time I had a stone I went to emergancy, the nurse walked up to me and said I know what your problem is , I have had stones and gave birth and would choose birth over having stones anyday. When you get those pains that knock you to the floor its your body trying to push out the stone just like labour.
 
MoparMuscleGuy said:
Hello Fishy68 my brother. I pass them on occasion. I know I'm about to pass one when I feel a pain run up the right side of my body through my right lung.(deferred pain). Then I get a pain in my nuts, then it moves to my lower back. It takes some, more than a couple weeks, to pass. I feel your pain. MMG
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Hey Chris. I never realized what it was since I already have a lot of back pain from some degenerated discs. Wasn't until I noticed my pee looked like coffee that I knew something was up.

SWETPT said:
The first time I had a stone I went to emergancy, the nurse walked up to me and said I know what your problem is , I have had stones and gave birth and would choose birth over having stones anyday. When you get those pains that knock you to the floor its your body trying to push out the stone just like labour.
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Wow and I thought giving birth would be worse. You confirmed what the doc said about how it's when your trying to push it out that the pain is awful. It's had me doubled over in the floor for quite a while several times. Yesterday I had to go to the hardware store and it hit me half way home. Lucky it was only a 2 mile drive as I barely made it.
 
Drink BEER, at least three bottles, its a natural dieretic, at the same time it relaxes the urinary track so that you can pass the stone! It worked with me many a times. That's a fact! GOOD LUCK!
 
Once passed a 5.5mm stone. Had 12 hours of pain. Two days later I peed it out. I took it to the urologist on my next visit and he was very surprised that I had passed it.
 
KP said:
These Things Can Make A Grown Man Cry...
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Ain't that the truth!

73dust said:
Drink BEER, at least three bottles, its a natural dieretic, at the same time it relaxes the urinary track so that you can pass the stone! It worked with me many a times. That's a fact! GOOD LUCK!
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LOL... I'm a church deacon so I don't think that'd look too good but thanks for the suggestion. I don't surprise me that it'd work though as beer is relaxing.

cudadriver said:
Once passed a 5.5mm stone. Had 12 hours of pain. Two days later I peed it out. I took it to the urologist on my next visit and he was very surprised that I had passed it.
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That's how big they said my last one was. They didn't mention the size of this one and I forgot to ask. Sounds like yours pretty well kept moving until you passed it. All I've had seem to move for awhile then stop and then take off again without warning. The last one I had took me 4 weeks to pass. It'd move a little then stop for maybe 3 or 4 days they move some more and so on until it finally came out.
 
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