You're fairly confident that another kidney stone is about to decide to go on a journey?
Yeah you know the feeling dontcha! Been through a couple of these damned things now and I got that feeling again. Maybe I'm just being paranoid.
So anyway what is the largest you've passed? 4mm.Actually the doctor who did the MRI said it was 3.8 but I'm rounding up.
2mm. Excruciating pain, brother.
Alan Cook, post: 448391, member: 43 wrote: 2mm. Excruciating pain, brother.
That's a baby one. My last one ricochet'd off the toilet. That is a bit of exaggeration but hey something nearly the size of a damned BB is freaking bad.
Drink more water. Can't hurt and might help.
Bill93, post: 448401, member: 87 wrote: Drink more water. Can't hurt and might help.
Drink more? Yes. Water? meh....
Some of the worst pain ever endured by a human. And there really is that "aura" feeling that means a delivery is imminent. Find a place to get comfortable.
One of the few blessings in life: never had a kidney stone, not allergic to poison ivy, ticks prefer my traveling companions.
Pretty common in our family. Lucky me is allergic to morphine..
Holy Cow, post: 448412, member: 50 wrote: One of the few blessings in life: never had a kidney stone, not allergic to poison ivy, ticks prefer my traveling companions.
That tears it. Stand by for urushiol coated stone in 3...2...
You guys are making my dick hurt just sitting here... OWWW
rochs01, post: 448418, member: 266 wrote: You guys are making my dick hurt just sitting here... OWWW
Just A Surveyor mentioned previously he ricocheted one off the toilet. We all know he's fibbing....there's no way he could have heard it. He would have been unconscious by then. 😉
A BB would be easy, as in smooth. I've seen magnified images of kidney stones, smooth they ain't.
Mark Mayer, post: 448414, member: 424 wrote: That tears it. Stand by for urushiol coated stone in 3...2...
Now by golly that is funny. A poison ivy coated stone would be appropriate for him.
Make it poison oak.
paden cash, post: 448421, member: 20 wrote: Just A Surveyor mentioned previously he ricocheted one off the toilet. We all know he's fibbing....there's no way he could have heard it. He would have been unconscious by then. 😉
I said it was a bit of exaggeration. But it did almost blow a hole through the toilet. More exaggeration. But they all hurt.
paden cash, post: 448403, member: 20 wrote: Drink more? Yes. Water? meh....
Some of the worst pain ever endured by a human. And there really is that "aura" feeling that means a delivery is imminent. Find a place to get comfortable.
Yep, you just get that feeling and it is one of dread and there is nothing you can do about it. Might be in the kitchen pouring a cup of coffee or crossing a creek with a trip over your shoulder or taking the trash out. The stone will make the decision when it wants to come out.
Sure water helps to flush it once it starts it's journey but until then it is a waiting game.
I thought the "current" treatment was to break up the stones with lasers. Or is that only used on ones the size of Mount Rushmore and not the smaller ones?
I think that this is a painful thread. I have seen folks howl with these.
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John, post: 448440, member: 791 wrote: I thought the "current" treatment was to break up the stones with lasers. Or is that only used on ones the size of Mount Rushmore and not the smaller ones?
Only if you can't pass it. A good friend of mine has passed a couple of 6mm stones and maybe even larger.
John, post: 448440, member: 791 wrote: I thought the "current" treatment was to break up the stones with lasers.
Ultrasonic blasts while patient sits in a tub of water. Search lithotripsy.
An older relative who struggles with it walks in the cemetery near his home in the mornings. As he was on one of the roads in the middle of the cemetery an attack hit him. He said the pain was so bad all he could do was lay down in the middle of the road and hope someone would come and run over him.
Thanks for the replies folks. Provides me with insights I hope to never have to use!
