Kidney Stone attack

My ex-wife took me to the ER with kidney stones and it was so painful I couldn't wear pants. I wore a robe. I proceeded to lay down in the ER bathroom in agony and cursed anyone who came in. After two opioid drips I could walk again and passed the stones in the next 48 hours.

I'll say a prayer for you.

I got one a week before my second kid was born

Pretty sure bc I was stressed out

I passed it the night my wife went into labor, it came out I was like wtf. I’ve had a kidney stone LMAOO

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What will make this excruciating pain go away?

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Where is the pain? Your flanks or your junk?

If the former (usually, that's the actual really bad part), I'm afraid there's not much you can do other than take some industrial strength painkillers.

If it's the latter, then if it's actually hurting that bad (shouldn't be), it'll be over soon.

I had lithotripsy where they direct sound waves to potentiate at the point of the stone and break it up. Felt like Mike Tyson hit my back a hundred times, and then had the fortunate pleasure of passing 23 fragments of that big arse stone…good times…..

Surgery was successful. Thank god they knocked me out for it but they went in through my penis and pulled it out. Feel 95% better right now other than pissing blood and feeling the pain when I piss but damn I feel good.

Thank you to whoever invented Dilaudid

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For those of you that had surgery how long was the recovery time?

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I've had to have it done 3 times already for stones too large to pass on their own. The biggest was in my left kidney at 2 cm and for those not familiar with the metric system, that translates to 3/4 in. around.

I had to take drugs for a couple months to help break that one up and most of it passed on its own but did require the surgery for that larger parts.

Recovery is easy except for feeling like you're pissing razor blades the first couple pees, then is subsides pretty quickly.

They went in with the scope and claw machine to get mine and left the stent in place that had to be removed at a later date. That was no fun as it is done in the Drs. office and you're wide awake when he shoves that instrument up the ogre to retrieve the stent. And you'd be surprised just how long that damn stent is after they pull it out.

Kidney stone pro here. My kidney stones never show on ultrasounds.
Always have to have a CT scan.

Some stones do show on ultrasounds. My husband and sons’ show on ultrasound. Mine do not. Did they tell you it was a stone??lIf it is a stone showing up on ultrasound they should be able to tell if it is and what size

They just called it a “shadow” and they said it was 4-5mm. They never used the word “stone”. Again this was a subsequent finding to some gallbladder testing I had done about 2 months ago