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[notposting]

Also, Squisher and the Angry Irishman should probably be trusted with our countries secrets. I'm pretty sure torture couldn't break them.

Penis Pain Champs

 

[Newell Steamer]

Ouch - 6mm,.. and two of them!! I was doubled over in pain with just one at 2mm.

Best of luck.

I saw some relief by applying a heat pad to side that was in pain,.. give it a shot.

 

[sourceninja]

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[Tweak155]

Man... I've never had a kidney stone and now I fear it more than death. Anything I can do to prevent this??

 

[rpanic]

I've had kidney stones 12 times now.

3-4 times I've ended up in the hospital due to pain... all the other times I didn't know I had one until it passed.

But I feel for ya.

Same here since I was 13. Last time took to weeks to pass. I took a couple vicodin and jogged in around in my living room from 1am to 6am the last day until I was so tired I could sleep, later in the night it passed.

 

[Exterous]

Rise from the dead horrible kidney pain.

Apparently I learned nothing. Just got back from the doctor. Two 6mm stones in the right kidney. CT Scan scheduled to verify.....sigh....

D: That sucks. Only had one so far and hope to keep that number as low as possible

 

[marincounty]

Ouch - 6mm,.. and two of them!! I was doubled over in pain with just one at 2mm.

Best of luck.

I saw some relief by applying a heat pad to side that was in pain,.. give it a shot.

I think I have passed a 6mm stone before, I think that's about the limit to what you can pass.
Strangely, the size of the stone is not correlated with the amount of pain. A BB sized stone can hurt severely.
Something I learned a while back is that the opening in the kidney to the ureter is near the top of the kidney,so to get the stone to move you need to invert your body.
I was told to drink a couple of glasses of water, wait 15 minutes, then lie with your legs higher than your head for a while. It will cause the stones to start moving.
A friend says he did the same thing by doing handstands in the pool.
Drink more water.

 

[Ban Bot]

On the pain scale only one thing is higher. Giving birth. I had a friend that had trouble with them and it was difficult watching him deal with the pain every now and then.

When I worked in the hospital a lot of women said stones were worse that child birth

When I had a collapsed lung I had them insert the chest tube between my ribs with no pain killer. The nurses had to hold my feet down, and I completely browned out in one eye.

I would say after that it has completely re-adjusted my pain perception. That has to be worse than a kidney stone...I hope.

And this is one of those other horribly painful things to witness. I remember being told with chest tubes not numbing it and I just stared at the chisel shaped tube and thought, "Just let me die."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_headache

"Women with cluster headache will tell you that an attack is worse than giving birth. So you can imagine that these people give birth without anesthetic once or twice a day, for six, eight, or ten weeks at a time"

I had the twisted sister of cluster headaches, Trigeminal Neuralgia.

Remembering back at my worst episodes I can remember thinking, "I see why people would kill themselves over this." The only thing that made it remotely tolerable is I knew the pain was not associated with any "damage" and was errant nerve signals. It didn't make the pain less but knowing there was no injury allowed me to mentally "escape" the pain as nothing more than that: pain. Not to downplay the pain as I still found my ass on the floor writhing in pain tears flowing from my eyes (didn't shed a tear when I broke my leg or blew out my shoulder) but being able to compartmentalize it helps??

That said I have not desire to have a kidney stone--saw a number of people "irrigated" with bloody foleys who ended up getting them surgically removed from their ureters. No thanks.

 

[Captante]

You also 'has' very bad grammar.

It giving me headake.

 

[JPS35]

On the pain scale only one thing is higher. Giving birth. I had a friend that had trouble with them and it was difficult watching him deal with the pain every now and then.

This would be incorrect. A year or two after she gives birth, a woman will say, "let's have another." Nodody ever asked for a second stone.

 

[BUTCH1]

I have calcium based stones.

Doctor repeatedly recommends more water. Since I am up to 6 stones I now drink a gallon a day.
She also recommended I slightly increase my calcium intake, the logic being my kidneys will process it better if I have more.
Starving yourself of calcium doesnt work, cuz your body just strips it from your bones.

Also there was a long list of shit I cant have, most of it was exotic stuff that I never eat anyway. But a few common things included, peanuts, cashews, almonds, cranberries, and cranberry juice.
An increase in green vegetables was recommended but thats just generic advice for almost any problem.

I've only had one, way back in '03, the pain is almost beyond description, and even worse, the first time you get "stoned" you don't know what it is so it added a terror element to it as well. In my case I was overloading BIG time on chocolate, the Co. I was working for gave an older woman a job writing down material movements, she had just put caps on jars for 25 years and was so happy to be assigned so I was patient with her and helped her out a lot with the different amounts and so on. She came to work every day with 3-4 bags of chocolate's and I was eating them constantly for my entire shift, I even duct-taped a Styrofoam cup to my forklift as a Hershey-bar holder LOL. After the stone passed I learned about foods rich in oxalate and chocolate was high on the list. The ambulance had me to the ER in less than 10 minutes but my bad luck continued as there was a bad accident and a heart-attack victim arrive 15 min. before I got there so I waited in a curtain-divided triage area for the longest two hours of my life without seeing a doctor. Finally I blew a gasket and started lifting and then slamming the bed on the floor while screaming " I'm in fucking pain" @120db, this got a doctor over (and security) and when he saw my urine sample had blood in it he had me blasted with Demerol STAT!. He apologized afterwards and said that mine was in my bladder now and it was just under the size where they go in and retrieve it with "the basket". Upon hearing of said "basket" my dick tried to turtle itself back into my body LOL, he sent me home with a strainer to catch it during urination, it came out a day later, about the size of a large BB. He also gave me a script for 15 Percocet 10's with a big zero in the refill area, someone at the HMO pharmacy screwed up and the bottle said 5 re-fills so I waited 3 weeks and sure as shit, they refilled it so I spent the weekend's that summer pretty much blasted LOL, even pulling weeds was fun!..