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(PICS) Just passed a 3mm kidney stone

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Originally posted by: UNCjigga
Women can pass kidney stones too? 😕

Don't know much about 'em, but for some reason I thought only men got them.
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My neighbor got her first one at 26,and they just keep on coming. The first one was huge, and they tried going up through with some kind of ultrasonic probe and blasting it, but they couldn't get it down enough to pass, so they finally operated on her a couple months after her fun began. She's had several more since then, but hasn't had to be cut on since the first one. She screamed so loudly one time, I heard her inside my house with the TV on, and the windows closed and the AC on! Our houses aren't all that close.

I had one, but passed it almost instantly. Into the urinal at Sam's Club one morning. I felt odd, and had a vague pain in my back, but it wasn't horrible. I went in to pee, and suddenly, there was a terrible pain that shot from the right side of my back down to my groin, and just as I let out a "UHHH!", I saw it, about the size of a grain of rice, hit the urinal and go down the drain. No more pain, but I was instantly drenched in sweat.

I really dodged a bullet. My doctor says it almost had to be a kidney stone, and I will probably get another one. I hope it's 20 years from now. I expect to be close to, if not dead by then anyway.
 
Originally posted by: Cameron
Ouch...
Worst pain I've ever had was Appendicitis... it had almost exploded by the time the doctors finally agreed that that's what it was.
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Mine blew while I was waitng for over 4 hours in the ER. I have to say the extremely short jolt of pain I had when I passed a stone was miles beyond anything with my appendix. I don't want another kidney stone, that's for damn sure.

At least we can't ever have appendix problems again..
 
46 years old here, drink soda, coffee, beer, little water, and have never had a stone. I don't understand why not.
 
Originally posted by: compuwiz1
46 years old here, drink soda, coffee, beer, little water, and have never had a stone. I don't understand why not.
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Some people's chemistry are prone to stones.


Also if you live in the Stone Belt which covers most of the southern states.
 
Originally posted by: rahvin
Passed a 3mm a couple years ago, very very unpleasant. I begged them in the ER for morphine.
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I always ask for the good stuff but usually end up with Torredol(sp).
 
I have a question. When you are passing the stone, does it happen in one session? I mean, say you know you have a stone. Could it be lodged in your tube for weeks? Or does it completely pass once it starts?
 
Originally posted by: Rage187
Originally posted by: rahvin
Passed a 3mm a couple years ago, very very unpleasant. I begged them in the ER for morphine.
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I always ask for the good stuff but usually end up with Torredol(sp).
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It wasn't that they wouldn't give it to me, it's that the place was packed, took me 20 min to get in and I was paceing the whole time I hurt so bad. The pain of a kidney stone is just unbelievable agony. It got so bad that I litterly begged them to just give me some morphine, I didn't care if I had to sit in the waiting room but I had to have something for the pain it was so intense. The best I can describe it is to have a hot knife plunged into your lower back and constantly twisted back and forth.
 
Originally posted by: sygyzy
I have a question. When you are passing the stone, does it happen in one session? I mean, say you know you have a stone. Could it be lodged in your tube for weeks? Or does it completely pass once it starts?
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When it finally starts traveling from your kidney(at least with all of mine), I could actually feel it moving through my innards🙁. My urine stream started to stutter as it moved closer and closer to passing. Then you hear the final "ploop" in the water and the relief cannot be expressed in words.

I am sure its possible for one to become lodged in the small passages, but thank god mine never did. I think the intense pain is mostly associated with the stones bouncing around in your kidneys and bladder. That pain was sooooo much worse than when it came time for them to pass.
 
I got it at 21. It was hell. Like the above poster stated, it is worse early on....the actual passing wasn't bad at all (though I think I cried from relief). The pain hit me like a truck, and early on I was pissing pure blood (that will scare the bejeesus out of anyone). I had to writhe in agony in the ER waiting room for 5 hours before seeing a doctor....worst night of my life.

Morphine helped me big time in the hospital. Vicadin barely made a dent later on.
 
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