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[Q]

Ouch

 

[Sheep]

I had one the size of a grain of rice back in early 2008. I lucked the hell out as the pain wasn't quite to the point of crippling. It was bad but I basically just slept (very uncomfortably) through it most of the time, being out of commission for about a week total. Either that or my pain tolerance is a ton higher than I ever expected--only popped 2 out of 20 pain pills and saved the rest for a rainy day.

 

[Miramonti]

Holy cr@p I'd rather have a fish hook ripped out of my pnis than that thing dredging thru my urinal tract.

 

[KaOTiK]

I've had them a few times, the largest I've passed was one close to the size that Squisher posted here. My first time though it was too big to pass and I had to get surgery to remove it.

For the most part, they don't bother me too much. A lot of discomfort and pain but nothing I can't handle. The worse pain of it all for me was after surgery where I had to go pee. omg.... I felt like I was pissing fire it hurt.

 

[spidey07]

Don't they have ultrasound stuff to break it up these days?

 

[Squisher]

Warning this is not a happy post and might make your testes draw up into your abdomen.


After being subjected to the pain of my first stone the Urologist scheduled me to have a cystoscopy. This is where they shove a scope into your penis to your bladder and up into your kidneys. They can also insert a device to grab the stone and pull it out. The problem came with knocking out a 19 year old Squisher with a narcotic that caused a spontaneous erection. So, with a surgical team standing around staring at my member and waiting for it to subside it is my feeling that they rushed it because when I woke up I was in even more pain and I was greeted with pissing out a 1/2 inch diameter, 18 inch long blood clot over the next 12 hours. This was accomplished at most a half inch at a time. Never again.

 

[Squisher]

Don't they have ultrasound stuff to break it up these days?

Lythotrpsy

They knock you out and inflate a water balloon next to your kidney. Painless and you piss out the smallest grains of sand.

I give this procedure :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[StinkyPinky]

I've had one before. Pretty bad pain but I was able to walk. Apparently the CT scan showed I had (or have) another one stuck in my kidney. That was over a year ago so perhaps it's still lodged there or (I hope) I pissed it out blissfully unaware.

Common misconception about stones is that the worst pain is pissing it out. It's not. The worst pain is when it travels from the kidney to the bladder as that tube is more narrow than your dick tube.

 

[Q]

I've had one before. Pretty bad pain but I was able to walk. Apparently the CT scan showed I had (or have) another one stuck in my kidney. That was over a year ago so perhaps it's still lodged there or (I hope) I pissed it out blissfully unaware.

Common misconception about stones is that the worst pain is pissing it out. It's not. The worst pain is when it travels from the kidney to the bladder as that tube is more narrow than your dick tube.

and the pain is not due to the stone being larger than the tube, but is the result of the contractions the tube is doing to push the stone forward.

 

[sourceninja]

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[Q]

Well, went back to the ER. They did a scan and found a 5cm stone in my kidney that needs removed. I go in tomorrow to find out what that entails.

cm or mm? CM is huge.

 

[sourceninja]

I double checked with him. He said cm. Scares the shit out of me.

 

[Printer Bandit]

how do you prevent kidney stones?

 

[OCGuy]

how do you prevent kidney stones?

Drink lots of milk and eat 1000mg Tums 3 times a day.

 

[spidey07]

I double checked with him. He said cm. Scares the shit out of me.

Um, that's like half your kidney.

 

[Q]

I double checked with him. He said cm. Scares the shit out of me.

They'll have to break that one down IMO. Maybe ultrasonic lithotripsy which uses sound waves to break it down and then you'll pass the pieces through urination. Other methods here

Spidey: you are right actually, kidneys are around (L)12cm x (W)6cm x (thick)3cm

 

[spidey07]

Drink lots of milk and eat 1000mg Tums 3 times a day.

That's mean.

 

[Q]

Urologist : cut back on caffeine and salt, drink lots of water and lemonade.

 

[spidey07]

Urologist told me: cut back on caffeine and salt, drink lots of water and lemonade.

Whose ologist?

 

[Q]

Whose ologist?

:hmm:

 

[eadInc]

how do you prevent kidney stones?

Hydration.

This is the single most important factor, typically, in reducing recurrence. Increase fluid intake. I'm not sure if there's any studies saying the exact amount you should intake per kg, but on one rotation, my IM attending commented he encouraged ingesting water most definitely after meals when the body is most dehydrated (some 2 hours after). Also, prior to going to sleep, since your urine may supersaturate overnight and cause a new stone.

Otherwise, some generalities you could impose on someone who fears recurrence is to a diet restriction on sodium and protein intake. Carbs and fat have not been shown to have influence on urinary stones. Bran can have a significant decrease on urinary calcium (a good thing).

 

[Angry Irishman]

I can "one up" everyone here....

First, you get diagnosed with a kidney stone and then told later it was a mistake...."you just had indigestion". Then, you get a ride in an F-16 which actually dislodges said kidney stone further down urinary track while pulling 9 Gs. Realizing you still have a stone while in flight you also accept that it's another hour of pulling fighter plane Gs until you land.

You haven't lived until you have been in so much pain that you throw up all over your car interior on the way to the hospital because of kidney stones.

Then you can't remember getting to the hospital. Do this on a Navy base with military docs and you being Air force...this equates to no one giving a shit about your pain. When Morphine is given through an IV you tell the corpsman through 4 hours of waiting to see a doc that it's having no effect and later are told "sorry" the morphine was leaking out before it hit your vein. "Sorry, the last guy was in training". after literally passing out from blinding pain you wake up and are told by the doc that he is going to borescope your urinary track to find the stones.

You are then strapped in with your legs in the stirrups like you are about to give birth. You aren't knocked out or given any drugs while the doc runs a metal guide tube into your weenis and then runs the lightsource up to where you see your kidney in a monitor. Then you are forced into a wheel chair with a borescope stuck in your weenis and get paraded around the hospital feeling every bump on the way to surgery.

Then you get a spinal from a male Navy nurse to relax your pissing muscles so the doc can put the equivalent of mechanical fingers on the stones (plural) and pull them out through said weenis. The Navy nurse says "you are going to feel a small prick" when he puts a needle in your hand for an IV. You laugh at that comment despite the pain.

You are discharged the next day and told by the doc that signs your release that you should have more respect and not curse at said doc while he is shoving borescope up your weenis.

Good times, good times indeed.

 

[ForumMaster]

"If it were a two or above I wouldn't be able to answer because it would mean a pause in the screaming."

I love xkcd. They have an appropriate comic for any occasion,

 

[Arcadio]

^ Funny stuff. Oh, and every time I see this thread, I go and drink a cup of water.

 

[Apathetic]

Sweet mother of mercy just looking at that makes my penis scream.

Just to make you feel worse, take a close look at all those jagged edges. When you "pass" a stone, you just don't "push" the stone out. It's a combination of your body pushing and it *SLICING* its way out. Think of it as a little alien slowly clawing its way out.

I've also had a dozen of the damnable things.

Dave