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Post by G✇JI☈A on Feb 28, 2023 17:46:27 GMT -5
On Sunday what I thought was indignation from my morning coffee (I drink it too fast)... Turned into a nightmare of pain by the afternoon.
Had to go to the “local medical facility” fearing it might be appendicitis. They took a blood and urine sample. Blood was clean, but urine had blood traces in it... So kidney stone. Got an MRI of my lower back half and it was confirmed a tiny nasty little kidney stone... Only a millimetre but causes a tremendous amount of pain. Then sent me home saying it should pass soon (unenthusiastic *yippie*). The hospital gave me some painkillers but not a prescription for more until the stone passed, they said I could even go to work.
Err, I don’t like to question professionals, but God damn. They said over-the-counter painkillers like Nurofen, Advil or paracetamol will deal with the pain. Yeah, they work but only for a couple of hours and they take an hour to take effect, hard to get a good night's sleep that way. Other ways I'm dealing with the pain: pretty hot showers, hot water bottle, my future stepmom gave me something called a Wheat Bag (like a bean bag, but filled with these I presume, you put it in a microwave for two minutes and then place on sore areas). I can not work in this condition, not for what I do for work.
I have also lost my appetite, I have barely eaten since Sunday. Been mostly liquids.
I know it's going to be painful when it comes out, but I just want this to be over.
And my sisters, I feel for you. I imagine a kidney stone is probably the closest thing a person without a biological vagina will have to experiencing something like period pain. I'm sorry you girls have to go through that every month for a good chunk of your lives.
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Post by BorneAgain on Feb 28, 2023 17:49:25 GMT -5
Kidney stones, even small ones eventually make it impossible to do anything. You can hardly sleep, you have to sit/lay down to minimize your discomfort, and even basic painkillers will only do so much. Its the most sustained crippling pain I've ever had and its genuinely hard to get across unless you've experienced it.
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Post by Instant Classic on Feb 28, 2023 18:00:24 GMT -5
I had one back in 2016 and it was the worst pain of my life.
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Post by peaches1 on Feb 28, 2023 18:19:54 GMT -5
Passed one a few years back and the pain was excrutiating. There is another stone in my kidney that's nonobstructing and nonsymptomatic currently, though that can certainly change.
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Post by lildude8218 on Feb 28, 2023 21:22:47 GMT -5
Take hot baths. As hot as you can stand and stay in the water until a) the pain settles or b) the water gets cold and then drain and start over. The pain was never really the issue for me but the constant feeling like you have to pee but literally can't is what drove me mad. The best thing to do is just wait and wait and wait because otherwise you're constantly standing at the toilet pushing.
First time I had one, my first symptoms began in late August or early September and went on until Thanksgiving morning. The randomness of it all is terrible too. You can go days without any pain and then it hits you like a train. The last one I had that forced me to the ER was 6 mm and "will not pass on its own" until I did just that. The actual passing didn't feel like anything, it was like it just appeared. However, the night before....it felt like a flamethrower when I went to the bathroom. That's how I knew it was finally close.
One last bit of advice: stay away from cranberry juice. Contrary to popular belief it's one of the WORST things you can drink and may cause more stones. Drink water with lemon. Crystal Light lemonade is particularly good.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Feb 28, 2023 21:28:23 GMT -5
Take hot baths. As hot as you can stand and stay in the water until a) the pain settles or b) the water gets cold and then drain and start over. The pain was never really the issue for me but the constant feeling like you have to pee but literally can't is what drove me mad. The best thing to do is just wait and wait and wait because otherwise you're constantly standing at the toilet pushing. First time I had one, my first symptoms began in late August or early September and went on until Thanksgiving morning. The randomness of it all is terrible too. You can go days without any pain and then it hits you like a train. The last one I had that forced me to the ER was 6 mm and "will not pass on its own" until I did just that. The actual passing didn't feel like anything, it was like it just appeared. However, the night before....it felt like a flamethrower when I went to the bathroom. That's how I knew it was finally close. One last bit of advice: stay away from cranberry juice. Contrary to popular belief it's one of the WORST things you can drink and may cause more stones. Drink water with lemon. Crystal Light lemonade is particularly good. Thank you for your advise .. I will follow up on the lemonade. I don’t have a tub where I live so I just been taking hot showers until the hot water runs out. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2023 23:08:54 GMT -5
Yes, the Stones do suck...
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Post by Hit Girl on Feb 28, 2023 23:19:42 GMT -5
It's like giving birth if your baby was a razorblade.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Mar 1, 2023 13:29:27 GMT -5
I have one kidney that was severely damaged as a child. I was born with one extra long ureter (the channel between one of your kidneys and your bladder). As a result, the damned thing kinked up like a garden hose and caused a blockage until the pressure in the kidney from backed-up urine was high enough to force the kink straight and release the backed-up urine. The kink would then form anew.
This did two things. The most obvious one is that it instantly fillled my bladder, unless there already was some urine in the bladder to begin with, in which case it overfilled my bladder and made me piss myself involuntarily. That happened a couple of times in school, which instantly marked me as a target for ridicule and bullying (I had a form of muscular dystrophy to boot, so my time in the public school system sucked for all 12 years of my time in that small, rural school system).
The more severe but less obvious one was that it damaged that kidney severely. It inflated it and it still is twice as big as it should be. It also rendered about 75-80% of that kidney as non-functional. The remaining part does the work of a normal kidney, for which the main drawbacks is that it leaks proteins it should not and the non-functioning parts act as a repository that forms kidney stones. They’re stuck there at the moment, but I might have a sonication procedure to break them up. The only pain I ever experienced because of kidney stones was when the side with the healthy kidney formed a massive stone in the normal ureter. It did not hurt yet, but it was about to completely block off the ureter and it was not passable. It could have destroyed my healthy kidney and it was discovered by chance. An MRI was done to look at something else (namely my form of MD means I have had a few hernias over the years and the scan was for that). The radiologist was like, “That other thing is fine but were you aware of that massive stone about to close off the right ureter?”
I had surgery to deal with the massive stone and was supposed to have a stent in for a couple of weeks. My anatomy rebelled against the stent. It hurt constantly and the act urinating yanked hard on one end of the stent and caused the anchor hooks to freshly rend me from the inside.
It. Was. Torture.
It was unbearable. I had to take unscheduled time off. The doctor had to take it out earlier than he cared for. I would not recommend.
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