just outa curiousity has anyone passed a kidney stone? if so was it easy? painless? enjoyable? conversation starter?

They say the pain is the equivalent of a man giving birth. <yuck face>

Mf

oh man. My buddy's dad had two of them and they came out back to back. He said other than the death of a loved one or the sight of his newborn child, it's the only thing that will make a grown man cry. He saved them and showed us.

i had gall stones. a broken ankle didn't hurt as bad

Honestly, seeing patients with them pretty often, one told me to drink lots of water and just lightly jump up and down when the pain is bad, coming down hard on your heels. This allows the hydraulic force of the water to push the stone down. The pain is backed up urine swelling urethra. When I had one I tried it and it worked very well.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Natural-Kidney-Stone-Removal&id=1119649

Brought me to the ground like I got punched when it hit. The morphine was pretty fun.

I have passed 2. Like a really bad tooth ache deep inside that feels like it should get better with curling up into a fetal position but just doesn't get better.

Also, I have taken care of literally hundreds of patients with stones at this point in my career. Fortunately, they usually respond well in the ED to IV fluids and enough narcotic meds IV. Then they either pass "on their own" with plenty of fluids and oral pain meds, or if they are bigger than 6mm the urologist goes in through the willie (not the boat type) and blasts them into smaller pieces or retrieves it directly.

Reader's digest version.

Ouch!

Oh no, not the Willie !
Yeeeeouch !

being a full blown man i'm powering through this passage with the manly oral narcotic.... whiskey!

and yes it trully feels like several kidney puches delivered by iron mike tyson.

There's an idea.
Have you tried suction ?

Alcohol will dehydrate you and prolong your stone issues

Take 2 shots then lay your willy on a good hard surface and whack it 8 times with a framing hammer..

I've passed 2, first was in 2007, Friday afternoon I started feeling pain in my back that wasn't bad at 1st, by about 6pm I was rolling around on the floor in agony and my wife insisted on a trip to the ER. Sat in the ER for almost 2 hours before I finally got to see a doc who diagnosed the stone and said there was another 1 in the other kidney. After getting some really good pain meds I went home and decided not to cancel a Kalama trip I had planned for the following morning. I was fine and even caught a springer out of the 1st hole, about noon things went to hell, the pain med made me sick so not only was I in pain but I was puking my guts out and this is at the Beginners Hole, still had to row down to Modrow which sucked big time. That stone took me 8 days to pass, some days were pain free, others, not so much. On the 6th day I had to fly to Alaska, passed the stone on the morning of the 8th day, right before my guests got on the boat, huge relief.
Second stone was a year ago and I was woke up about 2 in the morning and knew exactly what it was, rolled around on the living room floor in agony for 3 hours then passed that stone. The 2nd stone hurt worse but only lasted 3 hours, If I ever have another 1 I want the 3 hour stone.
Good luck!

If you are doing it DIY be sure t drink a ton of water. It will help dilate up the ureters and float that thing down the pipe. If it is working the pain will go lower and lower and then disappear, followed a day or so later by pain in little willie as it enters the toilet.

Sincere condolences and best luck.

I haven't been fortunate to deal with kidney stones yet. If it's anything like having a full blown gallbladder attack I think I'd rather jump off a 20ft bridge with nothing but rocks at the bottom. I can't even begin to describe the pain and wouldn't even wish it on my worst enemy... Well maybe...

Get through it Brewer, time is your worst enemy!

Keith

so far the nothing but whiskey/beer for meds has worked well. feel the discomfort moving lower. hopefully the stone will be completely passed by this evening.

If you have good insurance...you have them blasted with Ultrasound...or so I've heard

I had good insurance and a 4mm stone, doc sent me home with pain meds, said if it was either 4.5 or 5 mm, don't remember which, they could zap it, until then, suck it up and be a man, 8 days later I passed it, Son of a .............!

Maybe the Brewer could engineer a "marriage of convenience" ?

I'm a stone factory.
I've passed eight and had five large ones blown up via three lithotipsy procedure. The last lithotripsy was two weeks ago.
I felt like I was pissing spawning gravel afterward. By far the most painful physical ailment I've gone through.