re: Kidney Stone attack

Will do. Thanks

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

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Depends on whether you are having lithotripsy or ureteroscopy (wire up your dick). Ive had both. Lithotripsy I recovered in about 24 hours. Ureteroscopy I felt better within about 2 days but they leave a stent in your kidney so the ureter won't collapse and you have to have that removed about a week post surgery. Wasn't bad with the stent in but not 100%. After they remove the stent you'll feel pretty normal.

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When I go to the ER for kidney stones, they always want to do an ultrasound first. I tell them no point in ultrasound because mine don’t show, so they do a CT scan.

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They always just straight to CT scan for me. I was just in the ER from 3 a.m. Thursday until past noon with a 7mm stone I passed the next day when I got home. They hit me with morphine first, then dilaudid to finally get the pain under control. I had put up with it for 2 days before heading to the ER.

That was the 4th kidney stone I passed this month, one in the first week and 2 on Saturday 2 weeks ago.

Lucky me was told I have at least 4 more that I will probably be able to pass in the next few months coming out my right kidney.

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Did they analyze your stones to determine what causes them?

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Yes, several years ago I had about 10 of them sent to a lab and they came back as Uric Acid based. I was given Allopurinol, the medicine used to treat gout, and it did help for a good while.

For some reason, the last couple years I've had an uptick in stones, with 4 requiring the old claw up the urinary tract to remove them.

Time to get these checked in a lab to see what their makeup is.