Kidney Stones

[jgillott]

Anyone else ever had the pleasure of these wonderful little things?

 

[mwilson]

My wife, my son and my daughter have all had them.....I either have not or was too numb to notice.....another bullet dodged....

None of the above seemed to have a good time when afflicted for sure.....

 

[jgillott]

I'm thinking that you would have noticed if it ever happened to you. I've never had anything hit me so quick. I'm not liking this getting older thing some days.

 

[Slow Six]

I've given birth to about a dozen of the little buggers. They are not fun.

 

[jgillott]

How long does it take for you from the onset of symptoms until you pass them? The Dr. told me it could be a couple of days. I'm not sure I can stand it for that long.

 

[Tractorat]

I dont even know how many ive had. The first 3 or 4 I made trips to the er when I was in white pain. I then realized the drill and just started chugging down as much water as I could as fast as i could to blow them out. I would also make a trip to the docs to pee in a cup to prove the stone and then get a bottle of percocet. Only would go to the er after that if it was on a sunday, or the doc just couldnt get me in. A few years ago I had some really big ones. Hundreds she said up there. Within a 2 or 3 month period I went in and had them blasted. Took a couple of weeks to pass the debri. But it didnt get all of them. And would not touch the 16mm one. 8mm is the largest you can pass. So they went in up thru my penis into my kidney and chipped it away with a jack hammer. It took a few weeks to pass that debri. Some big chunks, some just dust. After I saw how much I was passing, I decided to keep the rest in a baggy. I have a baggy that is close to half full, full of kidney stones. Grandkids thinks its pretty cool.

 

[Mark31]

A buncha years ago, a Godly old black man who worked for a good friend, had been tormented with one until he had all he could stand. He prayed all night in his hospital bed, dreading the surgery he was going to have to endure. When his feet hit the floor the next morning to go to the operating room, he passed it. I always heard that there was no where to run, no where to hide with kidney stones/kidney colic. Maybe you could ask Dr Jesus to make a house call? We will remember you to the Lord at prayer breakfast in the morning at 7:00. May God grant you rest tonight. Mark

 

[GReed]

I had one that was too large to pass. They had to go in after it. No fun either. Here is a home remedy I found, one of my wifes friends tried it and it worked.


3oz lemon juice, 3oz olive oi. Mix and drink just before bedtime. Drink at least 10 glasses of water during the day. Repeat for several days until stone passes. Tart cherries or tart cherry juice is supposed to help. Do a Google search for kidney stone home remedies. There are several. You may find one that does the trick.

 

[Wayne M.]

I think I lamented about them here years ago. I've been very lucky since 2007. Stones are different in size and makeup. Basically you have a crystal growing science experiment going on in there. Somehow you have to knock this perfect storm for growing crystals in your system out of balance. If I think I'm getting one, I go on a massive water drinking mission. Unless you have a boulder and in a bad spot, this should do it. The first one I had, that urologist told me to drink beer. I am not a drinker, but I did have 2 per night, and supposedly this dilates your ureter and final exit, and promotes the volume to flush.
The second one wasn't so easy. It started as a back pain, and I was doing yard work, so it made sense. But what was really happening was I was dehydrated before, and in a while, I lost the back pain (because it left the kidney) and managed to get stuck in the left ureter (the tube that connects your kidney to the bladder, you have 2 if you have 2 kidneys) On the morning of the Mopar Atlantic Nats, 2006, I was actually going to go, but NOOO! I woke up crying like a baby with that pain we all know. I wound up in the ER, and I had a massive urinary tract infection. The scan showed it. The stone got stuck midway down in my ureter, causing a backup into the kidney. Next I knew, I was wheeling into the OR where they installed a stent. Yes it showed on the Xray like a piece of wire with a pigtail in my bladder, and a pigtail in the kidney. This allowed a path for the kidney to drain. and I peed rust for a week. What happened next was this- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracorporeal_shock_wave_lithotripsy
Then I peed glass for a week. Then the worst- that stent had to come out- in the office. This taught me not to eat too much fruit (oxalates) and to keep the water intake up. While this was going on, I was told that I had a huge stone imbedded in the kidney, so big, it wont move, and it didn't hurt. I told myself I was going to try and dissolve it, and I did. The nephrologist was impressed. It took a year. Good luck Justin. You can't go wrong with water.

 

[jgillott]

Thanks guys. I've been pounding the water down since I came from the urgent care. The Dr told me that the current blood pressure pill that I am on tends to cause kidney stones in some people. Frankly, at this point, I don't care what has caused these things, I just want them gone.

I'll take a look at some of the home remedies online. I'll try anything.

 

[Tractorat]

lithotripsy

Yes, couldnt think of that word. I had 6 within about 2 months. When it couldnt get it all, thats when I had the invasive procedure. Regarding the stent removal, the best way I could describe that is "ikki" and weird. Doc was a young woman about 30

 

[Mark31]

Kidney stones are made out of different stuff. Home remedies that work for one type of stone can actually make other stones worse. It might be an advantage to have a passed stone analyzed before "self-treating". There is a medical group in Myrtle Beach, SC, that is at the very forefront of urinary tract and prostate treatments

 

[Tractorat]

They could never figure mine out. First they said no ice cream or dairy. Then it was no green leafy vegetables. Then no ice tea. Then they gave up. Just said to drink lots of water every day so that when I get them I would probably pass them while they are small and not noticable. BTW, I did get to where I could pass some pretty large stones and not know I had them until I passed them.
Sometimes flowmax helps get it down the ureter.

 

[RUSSELL5000]

Sorry to hear - pray for quick resolution for you.

 

[Deleted member 995608]

I've luckily only had one trip to the ER because of them suckers. Once I started paying attention, I can sorta tell when now when I've got them coming. I'll get back aches in the kidney region for a few days and I pretty much know what's coming soon after, so I hit the water pretty hard. When it does finally pass, it's the most painful wiz ever, but the relief after is amazing.

 

[Wayne M.]

Kidney doc made me do many 24 hour pee tests in the jug. That was strange. But that’s how I found the trigger. Justin, where exactly is the stone? Bladder?

 

[jgillott]

Kidney doc made me do many 24 hour pee tests in the jug. That was strange. But that’s how I found the trigger. Justin, where exactly is the stone? Bladder?

I have more than one. I passed a small one late last night which was in the bladder and I have more below the left kidney.

 

[The patriot]

I had a bunch of them. Passed them as big as 8mm. And I aint no Johnny Holmes.....
Another time I got out of the shower and was toweling off, WTF is this! My schween is sharp on the end! A stone was sticking out!!!:-laf
I have a small Rx container I have 1/2 full in the bathroom cabinet.:-laf
We've also had the sonic thing. One time they wanted to use the "basket". Nope!
Was in the hospital once, and the dang nurse lost it down the drain.
Another Dr had me strain for a month, took it to send out to the lab. Never heard anything, so a month later I called him. He said "It dont matter, they cant tell you why they from"
FU Mr Dr.....FU

 

[BigPapa]

I can't tell you what causes them, but I have a theory that it's in the genes, hereditary.

I could count on my two hands the number of kidney stones that my family (brothers, parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and cousins) has had. My brother's wife and her family (her siblings, parents, and grandparents) have them CONSTANTLY. I initially thought it was in their diet or their water but as her siblings also married and moved away from home, they continued to have them. Now, my brother's children, my nieces and a nephew, ALSO have them often and they aren't living together. My brother hasn't had them, either, and he's eating and drinking the same things his wife does.

 

[jgillott]

That's an interesting point. My grandfather on my mother's side had them constantly. At the time, we blamed it on the fact that the only liquid intake for the last 50 years of his life came from a beer bottle (he saw action in Europe during WW2 and simply couldn't stay sober after he came back). All of my cousins on that side seem to have difficulty with these.