re: I hate Kidney stones

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The first two or three scared me to death due to the pain in n my early 20s.

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Are you always able to flush them out? How can you tell when it starts happening?

I drink water and red wine/beer. Alternate.

I'm pretty sure I dealt with it back in the Spring. I had dealt with them moving, I guess, in the past and had some pain. This time it was brutal.

I started having pain in my left nut and general abdominal area around 8:30pm. I got a shower and started to go to bed. I just sat on the side bed for a bit, kind of just feeling the pain and wondering what it was. I laid down on my back and read for a bit. I turned out the light, rolled over on my side......and BAM the pain kicked up significantly. I tossed and turned until about 4am, I was never able to get into a position that didn't hurt. I decided to get up and the suffering started.

It felt like I had been kicked in the left nut, specifically, but the pain stayed at its peak and wouldn't subside. I felt like I had to constantly pee, but not much came out. I hurt terribly in my bladder and up into my abdomen. My abs were tensed constantly. I couldn't sit for long, stand for long......so I just paced. Back and forth, back and forth in the living room. I was drinking water and having to pee, but still......not much. I called into work and tried to lay back down at around 8:30am. Nope. As soon as I went horizontal the pain ratcheted up. Turned to my side and it was worse.

I got back up and paced. I kept pacing a while and sitting a while. The pain never eased. Time passed, eventually making it past lunch with no relief. I promised I would go to the ER if I wasn't feeling any better by 2pm. Well, I paced and sat and paced and sat, up and down for another couple of hours. I finally was able to lean back in the recliner at around 2pm, still hurting. At some point I dozed off. It seemed like it was for a few hours, but I'm told it was only for ten minutes or so. I woke up, and the pain had lessened, but I really, really had to piss. I didn't want to chance moving. I didn't want to kick the chair down and try standing out of fear it would come back. The pain in my nut was now just a dull ache, and the bladder pain was almost gone. My abs were still tense. At something to 3pm, not able to hold it any longer, I stood up to go to the bathroom. It started like it had been, slow. Then, I began to piss like I've never pissed before and the pain just......stopped. I didn't see a stone, though. I was still achey, but a 2 instead of a 10 on the pain scale. I went back and sat down, found the spot I was in where I wasnt hurting, and took a nap. That was about 16 hours of the worst pain I've ever had.

That was it. My abs hurt for about two days, like I had done a boatload of crunches. They were sore when I moved. Nothing else, though.

That's my suspected kidney stone story. I hope don't have another.

ETA: When I was typing all of that my abs were subconsciously tightening. I didn't even notice it.

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i've passed 2.

no bueno

the second one was easier because i was prepared for the pain that time around.

the first one

the second one actually got stuck coming out of my penis while i was peeing in my office urinal all of a sudden my piss started going crazy like someone put their thumb over the end of a water hose and i looked down and was like WHAT IN THE HELL and pulled it out, rinsed it off and gave it to my dr.

sorry TMI


anyway, good luck. worst pain ever.

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Interesting. What I've noticed is the passing of them is relatively painless. Rather, it's the descent from the kidney to the bladder ("flank pains") that is the killer for me.

I have the passing down to a science: when I sense the end is near, I drink a huge decaf with bourbon at bedtime and then hold it for at least 10 hours. That thing EXPLODES out at the end.

I'm jealous of all of you who pass it within a day or two of first symptoms. Typically I feel a soreness in one kd my testicle, kind of like blue balls. Not severe, but enough to notice. Comes and goes, then I'll staty getting the flank pain that goes builds to juat debilitating pain. Writhing on the floor type shite. Doesn't go away until I go to the ER and get put on the cocktail for a cool 8 grand a trip.

That goes on for a month or two until I finally pass it. Nothing breaks the pain but a heavy dose of T3 and vicodens.

Once it drops into the bladder all the pain is gone and it passes in a day or two of heavy violent. I've passed two, both only 2.5mm each, but it's just a horrific ordeal that takes up the better part of a quarter of the year.

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Rather, it's the descent from the kidney to the bladder ("flank pains") that is the killer for me.

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same.

once it moved that far i was able to go to work (hence the office urinal ) and yep, not something you see every day but there was no pain associated with pulling the thing out of my penis or any of the peeing i had done in the day or so prior.

its that journey from the kidney to the bladder that will get you!

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How can you tell when it starts happening

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I've passed 3 many years apart. Only the 1st was agony but only 2 hours. 2nd was painful but tolerable for 3 days. 3rd was just occasional high back pain over 45 days. Each time the early tipoff symptom for me was a slight burning during urination and slight discomfort in the bladder. By slight I mean so little that I could ignore it. This was a day before the main event. The intermittent back pain is similar to gas pain. I did not see a doctor for 1 & 2 but had imaging during 3 to track progress.

Drink a lot of water and lay on your stomach. And try to sleep on your stomach.

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Sleep with the affected side elevated. About 30 degrees or so. .



It will help you pass the stones if they aren't too big.

I agree!! Had to have one surgically removed, it was 9 mm I believe! Passed another one a year later that literally "clanked" on the tub when I passed it. I now take Flo-max everyday, no matter if I feel like I have one or not. Haven't had any issues since I started taking Flo-max.