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So...kidney stones. Those things suck amiright? (1 Viewer)

rascal said:
belljr said:
wait until one get stuck on your bladder and needs to be medically removed......
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Mine got stuck in my ureter (tube from kidney to bladder) for weeks!! Ended up in the emergency room 3 different times from the pain.  Passed out from the pain on the last time and the emergency room doc said it could have killed me (guess you can stroke out from the pain). Ended up having surgery to have it removed.  My doc keep putting off the surgery because from the size of it he said I should be passing it.  Obviously never did.  When I woke up from surgery the first thing I see is my Dr apologizing to me.  He said while the stone wasn’t large it had burrs that dug into the ureter walls an that’s why it didn’t pass.  He said “I had to work pretty hard to get it out so your gonna be hurting for a bit”.  I pee’d tomato soup looking pee in the days after.  So yeah, they suck.  

 
dkp993 said:
Mine got stuck in my ureter (tube from kidney to bladder) for weeks!! Ended up in the emergency room 3 different times from the pain.  Passed out from the pain on the last time and the emergency room doc said it could have killed me (guess you can stroke out from the pain). Ended up having surgery to have it removed.  My doc keep putting off the surgery because from the size of it he said I should be passing it.  Obviously never did.  When I woke up from surgery the first thing I see is my Dr apologizing to me.  He said while the stone wasn’t large it had burrs that dug into the ureter walls an that’s why it didn’t pass.  He said “I had to work pretty hard to get it out so your gonna be hurting for a bit”.  I pee’d tomato soup looking pee in the days after.  So yeah, they suck.  
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Yeah.  My last one, stopped all soft drinks thereafter, affected my spray pattern.

 
dkp993 said:
Mine got stuck in my ureter (tube from kidney to bladder) for weeks!! Ended up in the emergency room 3 different times from the pain.  Passed out from the pain on the last time and the emergency room doc said it could have killed me (guess you can stroke out from the pain). Ended up having surgery to have it removed.  My doc keep putting off the surgery because from the size of it he said I should be passing it.  Obviously never did.  When I woke up from surgery the first thing I see is my Dr apologizing to me.  He said while the stone wasn’t large it had burrs that dug into the ureter walls an that’s why it didn’t pass.  He said “I had to work pretty hard to get it out so your gonna be hurting for a bit”.  I pee’d tomato soup looking pee in the days after.  So yeah, they suck.  
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4 years ago I had one stuck in my ureter.  It was 6mm.  The doc wanted to go in after it and I was the one who kept putting it off.  I have a lot of anxiety about procedures that require going in through the out tube.  We kept taking images of it and about 6 weeks later, it was suddenly gone.  The little ******* apparently refluxed back to my kidney.  I was feeling good...no problem...go on with life.   I suspect this big ### one I currently have giving me issues is the result of 4 years worth of growth.  Aside from this big boy, I got a couple of small 2 mm hanging out in each kidney

 
Galileo said:
I have a lot of anxiety about procedures that require going in through the out tube. 
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You have good reason.  But it sure beat the alternative of passing out from the pain. I’ll never forget the ride to the emergency room that last time, I kept almost passing out in the car my and wife kept slapping me across the face to stop me from doing it. It’s was a level of pain I cannot describe.  

 
Galileo said:
1.1 cm.  Yay me!  :(
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So, the stone pain hit on Tuesday Aug 4th. Got a CT scan Aug 8th that my primary ordered, but I couldn’t get an appt until the 12th with a urologist, and she was a CNP.  After that visit I was scheduled for a ureteroscope on the 28th.  Well I didn’t t make it.  Starting Sunday every time I would try to urinate, I would get cut off mid stream...burned like hell.  By yesterday afternoon, I couldn’t pee at all.  Off to the ER.  I waited over 3 hours in the emergency department waiting room.  Crazy place yesterday...there was a big guy in there crying and occasionally vomiting into a bag.  There was an old guy in a wheel chair who kept screaming for a nurse.  Another old guy in a wheelchair jet yelling and complaining about his long wait (as others were doing just not as loudly)...and then me continuously pacing around because of the extreme need to urinate the whole time.  When they finally got to me, they asked me to give a urine sample...the irony.  If I could pee, I wouldn’t be there.  I managed to squeeze out about 10-15 painfully burning milliliters.  They did another CT scan to tell me what I already told them...that the stone was now blocking my urethra.  They did a scan of my bladder to tell me what I already told them...that I was full of piss that won’t come out.  They made me try to pee again after the scan to see how much I was retaining.  Really?  Does what I say not matter at all?  They measured around 700 mL in the bladder.  I painfully forced out another 10 mL or so, which finally confirmed for them what I knew was coming when I walked in some 4+ hours ago at this point.  I needed a Foley catheter.  
Now, I don’t know how much Foley profited from his device/technique, but there has got to be a better way.  There is an opportunity here for some innovator to create it.  This process absolutely sucked. I do not know how much of the problem was my anxiety, the stone being in the way or the ineptness of the staff, but the first attempt failed.  The nurse could only get the catheter in so far and couldn’t get to the bladder.  She called in reinforcements and they tried again.  Oh the burning!  The agony as they tried to insert what felt like a hot fire poker up my junk.  Failure number 2.  They let me relax for a little while before trial number 3.  They called in the heavy hitter.  The ER doctor was going to try this 3rd attempt.  She didn’t mess around by trying to ease it through.  She set up everything and just rammed it through. Easily the the most unpleasant thing I have ever encountered, but at least she got it done.  After draining for a bit, they sent me home with the Foley in place.  It stings a bit, especially when I move around, but at least I am draining now.  (Although it still feels like I continuously need to go).  Unfortunately, my surgery isn’t scheduled until the 28th.  I am trying to pull some strings to rework that.  

 
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Galileo said:
So, the stone pain hit on Tuesday Aug 4th. Got a CT scan Aug 8th that my primary ordered, but I couldn’t get an appt until the 12th with a urologist, and she was a CNP.  After that visit I was scheduled for a ureteroscope on the 28th.  Well I didn’t t make it.  Starting Sunday every time I would try to urinate, I would get cut off mid stream...burned like hell.  By yesterday afternoon, I couldn’t pee at all.  Off to the ER.  I waited over 3 hours in the emergency department waiting room.  Crazy place yesterday...there was a big guy in there crying and occasionally vomiting into a bag.  There was an old guy in a wheel chair who kept screaming for a nurse.  Another old guy in a wheelchair jet yelling and complaining about his long wait (as others were doing just not as loudly)...and then me continuously pacing around because of the extreme need to urinate the whole time.  When they finally got to me, they asked me to give a urine sample...the irony.  If I could pee, I wouldn’t be there.  I managed to squeeze out about 10-15 painfully burning milliliters.  They did another CT scan to tell me what I already told them...that the stone was now blocking my urethra.  They did a scan of my bladder to tell me what I already told them...that I was full of piss that won’t come out.  They made me try to pee again after the scan to see how much I was retaining.  Really?  Does what I say not matter at all?  They measured around 700 mL in the bladder.  I painfully forced out another 10 mL or so, which finally confirmed for them what I knew was coming when I walked in some 4+ hours ago at this point.  I needed a Foley catheter.  
Now, I don’t know how much Foley profited from his device/technique, but there has got to be a better way.  There is an opportunity here for some innovator to create it.  This process absolutely sucked. I do not know how much of the problem was my anxiety, the stone being in the way or the ineptness of the staff, but the first attempt failed.  The nurse could only get the catheter in so far and couldn’t get to the bladder.  She called in reinforcements and they tried again.  Oh the burning!  The agony as they tried to insert what felt like a hot fire poker up my junk.  Failure number 2.  They let me relax for a little while before trial number 3.  They called in the heavy hitter.  The ER doctor was going to try this 3rd attempt.  She didn’t mess around by trying to ease it through.  She set up everything and just rammed it through. Easily the the most unpleasant thing I have ever encountered, but at least she got it done.  After draining for a bit, they sent me home with the Foley in place.  It stings a bit, especially when I move around, but at least I am draining now.  (Although it still feels like I continuously need to go).  Unfortunately, my surgery isn’t scheduled until the 28th.  I am trying to pull some strings to rework that.  
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my eyes the whole time i read that:  :eek:

didn't realize until i was done reading that my whole body was clenched tight.   

good god. can't they pulverize the stones sonically or something?

 
mr. furley said:
my eyes the whole time i read that:  :eek:

didn't realize until i was done reading that my whole body was clenched tight.   

good god. can't they pulverize the stones sonically or something?
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Not in the bladder is what I am told.  The ureteroscope procedure I have scheduled goes in and uses a laser to break it up.  Good news is that I have a sister in law who is a big wig at the Cleveland Clinic.  She reached out to the head of the urology department.  I just got off the phone with him, and I now have the procedure scheduled for tomorrow.  So I will not need to wear this Foley for next the 10 days.

 
Galileo said:
So, the stone pain hit on Tuesday Aug 4th. Got a CT scan Aug 8th that my primary ordered, but I couldn’t get an appt until the 12th with a urologist, and she was a CNP.  After that visit I was scheduled for a ureteroscope on the 28th.  Well I didn’t t make it.  Starting Sunday every time I would try to urinate, I would get cut off mid stream...burned like hell.  By yesterday afternoon, I couldn’t pee at all.  Off to the ER.  I waited over 3 hours in the emergency department waiting room.  Crazy place yesterday...there was a big guy in there crying and occasionally vomiting into a bag.  There was an old guy in a wheel chair who kept screaming for a nurse.  Another old guy in a wheelchair jet yelling and complaining about his long wait (as others were doing just not as loudly)...and then me continuously pacing around because of the extreme need to urinate the whole time.  When they finally got to me, they asked me to give a urine sample...the irony.  If I could pee, I wouldn’t be there.  I managed to squeeze out about 10-15 painfully burning milliliters.  They did another CT scan to tell me what I already told them...that the stone was now blocking my urethra.  They did a scan of my bladder to tell me what I already told them...that I was full of piss that won’t come out.  They made me try to pee again after the scan to see how much I was retaining.  Really?  Does what I say not matter at all?  They measured around 700 mL in the bladder.  I painfully forced out another 10 mL or so, which finally confirmed for them what I knew was coming when I walked in some 4+ hours ago at this point.  I needed a Foley catheter.  
Now, I don’t know how much Foley profited from his device/technique, but there has got to be a better way.  There is an opportunity here for some innovator to create it.  This process absolutely sucked. I do not know how much of the problem was my anxiety, the stone being in the way or the ineptness of the staff, but the first attempt failed.  The nurse could only get the catheter in so far and couldn’t get to the bladder.  She called in reinforcements and they tried again.  Oh the burning!  The agony as they tried to insert what felt like a hot fire poker up my junk.  Failure number 2.  They let me relax for a little while before trial number 3.  They called in the heavy hitter.  The ER doctor was going to try this 3rd attempt.  She didn’t mess around by trying to ease it through.  She set up everything and just rammed it through. Easily the the most unpleasant thing I have ever encountered, but at least she got it done.  After draining for a bit, they sent me home with the Foley in place.  It stings a bit, especially when I move around, but at least I am draining now.  (Although it still feels like I continuously need to go).  Unfortunately, my surgery isn’t scheduled until the 28th.  I am trying to pull some strings to rework that.  
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Sure, but if MEN got kidney stones, they'd have a magic pill that would take care of them painlessly.

Oh, wait...

 
After reading this thread, is anyone else in here afraid to go pee?  I'm seriously damaged because of this thread.  I feel like it could just happen at any minute now.    :sadbanana:

 
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fred_1_15301 said:
After reading this thread, is anyone else in here afraid to go pee?  I'm seriously damaged because of this thread.   :sadbanana:
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I had one 10 years ago and it was the worst pain I have ever felt.  It made me stop drinking soda and started drinking lemonade which is supposed to help break down the stones.

 
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I had one 10 years ago and it was the worst pain I have ever felt.  It made me stop drinking soda and started drinking lemonade which is supposed to help break down the stones.
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I honestly think I'm switching over to lemonade ASAP.  I drink way too much soda (and alcohol).  I don't know how rum mixes with lemonade but I'm going to give it a shot.   :lol:     Also, I plan to drink at least a gallon of water every day going forward.  

 
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Not in the bladder is what I am told.  The ureteroscope procedure I have scheduled goes in and uses a laser to break it up.  Good news is that I have a sister in law who is a big wig at the Cleveland Clinic.  She reached out to the head of the urology department.  I just got off the phone with him, and I now have the procedure scheduled for tomorrow.  So I will not need to wear this Foley for next the 10 days.
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HFS.  This whole thing made me want to grab myself.  Good luck with the surgery.

 
Thankfully have never had to deal with these.  I've always drank a lot of water (usually 3/4 gallon to 1 gallon a day) and coffee (2-4 cups). I piss a good half dozen times a day :lol:  

I do drink maybe 6-8 sodas a week though. 

 
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I drink a lot of water myself on a regular basis.  Unfortunately, this is not the only factor.
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Hopefully you got a stone analysis with your prior episode, though I’m told newer CTs are pretty good at identifying the type radiographically. For the most common type of stones made of calcium oxalate, there are several specific foods you may want to avoid - certain nuts, rhubarb and spinach, for example. But everyone conveniently ignores the recommendation to limit salt and animal protein intake, too (one of many reasons recent diet trends like keto, paleo, etc. aren’t healthy).

But assuming you’re a middle+ aged man, you’re probably gonna need evaluation of your prostate. It’s likely contributing to urinary retention that promotes stone formation. Although 1+ cm stones aren’t expected to pass spontaneously, they should’ve given you a medication like tamsulosin (Flomax) to help with prostatism/relax smooth muscle. If you have one of the less common stone types there are other medicines as well.

As an aside, your description of the ER sound pretty typical for medium to large hospitals across the country, minus the guy with the wheelchair jet.

 
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fred_1_15301 said:
After reading this thread, is anyone else in here afraid to go pee?  I'm seriously damaged because of this thread.  I feel like it could just happen at any minute now.    :sadbanana:
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If you get a kidney stone, it won't be a sudden development. It will start with a dull pain in your lower side, and the feeling may linger in that area for several hours before you experience any serious pain. If you're lucky, you can use that early period to take some strong pain medication so that you are prepared for what's coming.

Also, don't be afraid to pee. The peeing isn't usually painful. The pain is caused by the stone passing from the kidney to your bladder, not from passing from bladder-to-toilet.

 
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If you get a kidney stone, it won't be a sudden development. It will start with a dull pain in your lower side, and the feeling may linger in that area for several hours before you experience any serious pain. If you're lucky, you can use that early period to take some strong pain medication so that you are prepared for what's coming.

Also, don't be afraid to pee. The peeing isn't usually painful. The pain is caused by the stone passing from the kidney to your bladder, not from passing from bladder-to-toilet.
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Thanks!  Good to know because there is something else that I've been afraid to do that involves that region of the body.

 
Terminalxylem said:
Hopefully you got a stone analysis with your prior episode, though I’m told newer CTs are pretty good at identifying the type radiographically. For the most common type of stones made of calcium oxalate, there are several specific foods you may want to avoid - certain nuts, rhubarb and spinach, for example. But everyone conveniently ignores the recommendation to limit salt and animal protein intake, too (one of many reasons recent diet trends like keto, paleo, etc. aren’t healthy).

But assuming you’re a middle+ aged man, you’re probably gonna need evaluation of your prostate. It’s likely contributing to urinary retention that promotes stone formation. Although 1+ cm stones aren’t expected to pass spontaneously, they should’ve given you a medication like tamsulosin (Flomax) to help with prostatism/relax smooth muscle. If you have one of the less common stone types there are other medicines as well.

As an aside, your description of the ER sound pretty typical for medium to large hospitals across the country, minus the guy with the wheelchair jet.
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That was supposed to say "in a wheelchair just yelling..." but a wheelchair jet sounds like it could be fun.

ETA...The doctor did check out the prostate today at some point during his hunting expedition...gave me a thumbs up on that!  And by the time we imaged this stone and I got the urology appointment, the stone had already reached the bladder, so no Flomax. 

 
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[scooter] said:
If you get a kidney stone, it won't be a sudden development. It will start with a dull pain in your lower side, and the feeling may linger in that area for several hours before you experience any serious pain. If you're lucky, you can use that early period to take some strong pain medication so that you are prepared for what's coming.

Also, don't be afraid to pee. The peeing isn't usually painful. The pain is caused by the stone passing from the kidney to your bladder, not from passing from bladder-to-toilet.
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1st paragraph mostly accurate.   However, when I had a 6 mm stone back in 2016, it stuck in my ureter for a couple months.  I had a lot of pain when it began its journey, but over the several weeks it was stuck, I only experienced some minor aching.  Doctor wanted to go in an get it, but since I wasn't experiencing much pain, I kept saying let's see if it will pass on its own.  Just when I was about to give in it somehow refluxed back into my kidney.  I let it go because I was having no issues at the time.  I suspect this is what grew into the 1.2 cm behemoth from my current episode.  I somehow managed to pass this big boy to my bladder without excruciating pain.  It was worse 4 years ago when it was smaller.  

Regarding your second paragraph, my problem this episode was that this stone wasn't going to make it through to the toilet.  I had no pain at all while it was innocently hanging around in my bladder and...BAM...it plugged me like a cork.  Under these conditions trying to pee is not pleasant.

Anyway, my procedure went well today.  I am so damn glad to have that catheter out...that whole experience was worse than the stone for me, and it took it's toll on my manhood.   My Johnson is pretty roughed up at this point, and I have entered the pissing lava phase of recovery.

 
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That was supposed to say "in a wheelchair just yelling..." but a wheelchair jet sounds like it could be fun.

ETA...The doctor did check out the prostate today at some point during his hunting expedition...gave me a thumbs up on that!  And by the time we imaged this stone and I got the urology appointment, the stone had already reached the bladder, so no Flomax. 
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He's not supposed to use his thumb, FWIW.

 
Galileo said:
So, the stone pain hit on Tuesday Aug 4th. Got a CT scan Aug 8th that my primary ordered, but I couldn’t get an appt until the 12th with a urologist, and she was a CNP.  After that visit I was scheduled for a ureteroscope on the 28th.  Well I didn’t t make it.  Starting Sunday every time I would try to urinate, I would get cut off mid stream...burned like hell.  By yesterday afternoon, I couldn’t pee at all.  Off to the ER.  I waited over 3 hours in the emergency department waiting room.  Crazy place yesterday...there was a big guy in there crying and occasionally vomiting into a bag.  There was an old guy in a wheel chair who kept screaming for a nurse.  Another old guy in a wheelchair jet yelling and complaining about his long wait (as others were doing just not as loudly)...and then me continuously pacing around because of the extreme need to urinate the whole time.  When they finally got to me, they asked me to give a urine sample...the irony.  If I could pee, I wouldn’t be there.  I managed to squeeze out about 10-15 painfully burning milliliters.  They did another CT scan to tell me what I already told them...that the stone was now blocking my urethra.  They did a scan of my bladder to tell me what I already told them...that I was full of piss that won’t come out.  They made me try to pee again after the scan to see how much I was retaining.  Really?  Does what I say not matter at all?  They measured around 700 mL in the bladder.  I painfully forced out another 10 mL or so, which finally confirmed for them what I knew was coming when I walked in some 4+ hours ago at this point.  I needed a Foley catheter.  
Now, I don’t know how much Foley profited from his device/technique, but there has got to be a better way.  There is an opportunity here for some innovator to create it.  This process absolutely sucked. I do not know how much of the problem was my anxiety, the stone being in the way or the ineptness of the staff, but the first attempt failed.  The nurse could only get the catheter in so far and couldn’t get to the bladder.  She called in reinforcements and they tried again.  Oh the burning!  The agony as they tried to insert what felt like a hot fire poker up my junk.  Failure number 2.  They let me relax for a little while before trial number 3.  They called in the heavy hitter.  The ER doctor was going to try this 3rd attempt.  She didn’t mess around by trying to ease it through.  She set up everything and just rammed it through. Easily the the most unpleasant thing I have ever encountered, but at least she got it done.  After draining for a bit, they sent me home with the Foley in place.  It stings a bit, especially when I move around, but at least I am draining now.  (Although it still feels like I continuously need to go).  Unfortunately, my surgery isn’t scheduled until the 28th.  I am trying to pull some strings to rework that.  
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Oh my God. 😧    If I get one of these things I'm gonna crumble like blue cheese. 

 
So...Over the last several days I've developed a mild, dull ache in my back around my left kidney. Kind of feels like I need to stretch my back constantly -- hasn't progressed into anything worse yet. If this was a stone (or at least a major one), would this pain be escalating more quickly? These things have long been a nightmare of mine.

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caustic said:
So...Over the last several days I've developed a mild, dull ache in my back around my left kidney. Kind of feels like I need to stretch my back constantly -- hasn't progressed into anything worse yet. If this was a stone (or at least a major one), would this pain be escalating more quickly? These things have long been a nightmare of mine.

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Every stone is different, like snowflakes.  Mr R can work on one of these for ages, or pass it PDQ.  He once passed a stone while driving across town (45 minutes).  If it doesn't resolve, I'd see a doc just to make sure it isn't a problem.

 
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caustic said:
So...Over the last several days I've developed a mild, dull ache in my back around my left kidney. Kind of feels like I need to stretch my back constantly -- hasn't progressed into anything worse yet. If this was a stone (or at least a major one), would this pain be escalating more quickly? These things have long been a nightmare of mine.

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Doesn't sound like a stone. Doesn't last for days and remain mild. Assuming no blood in your urine, pretty likely to be something else.

 
I had my 3rd stone.  The first time, I wasn't sure but I was about 90% certain it was a kidney stone, this is back in 2015 I think.  I went to the ER, I got right in, I sat and sat and sat while they screwed around, they finally took an x-ray (after 4 hours) and after I got back from x-ray they said "oh, would you like some pain medication?" I said yes but it was totally useless.  They sent me home with flomax and I dropped the stone about a month later.

2nd time I got one, I rolled in pain on the floor like a sausage link in a hot pan, I cried it out and after about 12 hours of this, the pain went away.  I assume I dropped the stone a month later, this was 3 years ago.

3rd time was last month.  It always starts at midnight (3 for 3, starts at midnight) this time, I stuck it out for 16 hours but it was way beyond crying pain.  This time, I puked my guts out, I was nauseated to the point where I couldn't take it and I had my wife drive me to the ER.  This started at midnight and I admitted myself to the ER at 4 PM the following day, 16 hours.  I get to the ER and because of all the morons with Covid, I sat in the waiting room from 4 PM until 10 PM and it was BRUTAL.  When I finally got in, they IMMEDIATELY gave me pain medication, which knocked me out for a few minutes, I woke up and nothing mattered for a while there.  They took me down to X-Ray (cat scan actually) they confirmed it, they gave me flowmax and pain pills and sent me on my way.  I got home around 3 or 4 AM.  

I'll be honest, with Covid floating around and the workload they have at the hospital, I did NOT want to go to the ER but I just couldn't handle it, I was tired of throwing up, I couldn't even drink water.  I apologized profusely but they were so kind and so nice THEY were apologizing to ME - can you imagine that?  These men and women were apologizing to me that it took so long and I couldn't have felt worse because I feel so horrible for them, I felt like a selfish jerk just being there. These folks are killing themselves for us, honestly, I don't know how they do it, they're amazing people and I am so very grateful for all they do.

I'm going to see a Urologist, I'm done with this.  This whole thing is genetic, I had no idea until I spoke with my oldest sister about it.  My oldest sister is a nurse, she had a Ureteral stent put in after her second or third round of kidney stones.  She mentioned our Dad used to get them all the time, she said he would roll around on the floor until it passed.  I had no freaking idea, I have no memory of this at all and I think it's funny we reacted the same way.  

 
Sullie said:
I'm going to see a Urologist, I'm done with this. 
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Good call.  You should have appropriate pain meds ready, just in case.  Mr R has Tramadol and Tylenol 3 to use depending on the severity of the pain.  After a while, you can pretty much know if it's a stone or something else.  We are just lucky that Mr R passes them.  One of our friends had to have one surgically removed when a sharp one started carving its way down whatever tube it was in.

 
Mrs. Rannous said:
Good call.  You should have appropriate pain meds ready, just in case.  Mr R has Tramadol and Tylenol 3 to use depending on the severity of the pain.  After a while, you can pretty much know if it's a stone or something else.  We are just lucky that Mr R passes them.  One of our friends had to have one surgically removed when a sharp one started carving its way down whatever tube it was in.
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Ureter is the name of that tube.  When I was in the ER the one physician commented "They should really call the thing a Ureter stone because, technically, that's where it is when you really start feeling pain because at this point, the stone has left your kidney and you're feeling it right there."   

You know, sometimes people "over share" and one day (a few years ago) I was out a day or two and one of my co-workers said "hey I was looking for you yesterday, someone said you were out sick, what's going on?"  I explained it to him and he said "it could be worse man, I had one stuck in my Urethra and they had to go in through my p3n1s to get it out, it was stuck there and I couldn't pee"  And, of course he's older so he said it loud enough that everyone around us could hear it and I'm just standing there looking at the guy with my mouth open because A.) I didn't even know that was a possibility and B.) it was like whack-a-mole, all these heads popped up out of their cubes at the same time! :)

 
Sullie said:
Ureter is the name of that tube.  When I was in the ER the one physician commented "They should really call the thing a Ureter stone because, technically, that's where it is when you really start feeling pain because at this point, the stone has left your kidney and you're feeling it right there."   

You know, sometimes people "over share" and one day (a few years ago) I was out a day or two and one of my co-workers said "hey I was looking for you yesterday, someone said you were out sick, what's going on?"  I explained it to him and he said "it could be worse man, I had one stuck in my Urethra and they had to go in through my p3n1s to get it out, it was stuck there and I couldn't pee"  And, of course he's older so he said it loud enough that everyone around us could hear it and I'm just standing there looking at the guy with my mouth open because A.) I didn't even know that was a possibility and B.) it was like whack-a-mole, all these heads popped up out of their cubes at the same time! :)
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ITs the worse...... plus the week long catheter after

 
Mrs. Rannous said:
Not true at all.  It can last for weeks at a low level.  Amd no blood, either.
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I should have worded it better. It's usually not mild pain for a long period of time. And no, don't need blood every time. However....

Most stones are either small enough to pass without any pain whatsoever (they are found incidentally when looking at something else) or they are larger and cause substantial discomfort as they move down. 

So, while he could have a smaller stone that is causing some mild discomfort, it's not the most likely cause, especially if he's never had them before. 

 
Went to the walk-in clinic today because the pain had gotten a bit worse. They did a quick x-ray and sure enough, looks like a stone might be in there. :(  Doing a CT scan tomorrow to confirm. Since the pain hasn’t gotten to be excruciating yet, hopefully this is indeed a smaller stone that can be passed in a less horrifying manner than others. Fingers crossed.

 
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caustic said:
So...Over the last several days I've developed a mild, dull ache in my back around my left kidney. Kind of feels like I need to stretch my back constantly -- hasn't progressed into anything worse yet. If this was a stone (or at least a major one), would this pain be escalating more quickly? These things have long been a nightmare of mine.

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Before it got to the crippling soul robbing levels of pain for me I had over a month of what I thought was lower back pain (level 4/5 type pain).  Started going to get massages and the Chiropractor to get rid of it but nothing worked.  Pain was in the kidney area of my back but it shot around my hip bone towards the front.  Had no idea it was a stone.  Only reason I figured it out was my yearly physical just happen to be scheduled and I told my doc about that pain. Once I said “shooting across my hip to the front” he asked me to go pee in a cup.  As I described at the top of this page the next 6 weeks were an absolute nightmare of pain.  

 
There is nothing better than feeling that sucker drop out of the bladder through the urethra and shooting out into that basket......

 
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