re: Kidney Stone Help

I haven’t passed this evil from my body yet. Pain is no longer high in the right side of my back but now in the lower left side and more manageable. Hoping to exorcise this demon soon.

Man they really fricked you over on your pain meds

My dad had one a few months ago.. he got dilaudid in the ER and got Percocet 10 for breakthrough pain

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How do you baws pass a kidney stone?? Looking for some help here from you seasoned kidney stone passers to get this thing out!

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It's interesting to me how unclear this thread is on the topic.

"Flank pains" - it sounds like this is what sent you to the ER. The stone descending from the kidneys to the bladder via the ureter is almost always the terrible part. The part that made your WWII vet Paw Paw say things like "I was at D-Day and took shrapnel, but the only time I ever cried like a baby was when I had a kidney stone". Thankfully, once this part is over, it's over.

Perhaps counter-intuitively, the peeing out of the stone (that is, the stone moving from the bladder, down the urethra, and out the pee hole) is rather anti-climactic and more of a pain in the arse, than an actual pain.

For me, I've passed about 5 now over the years. I (extremely luckily) only felt flank pains in 2 of them. The others somehow got to the bladder unannounced. For me, they seem to linger in the bladder for up to 3 weeks. My most recent one - last summer - was a 7mm ball of joy that lingered in the bladder for 15 days.

When the stone is in the bladder, you will likely feel "referred pain/sensations" whenever it flirts with the urethral opening. For me, this is very mild pain, registered at the glans (tip) or a vibrating/buzzing (almost like the phantom cell phone effect in your pocket), mostly at the glans, but sometimes on the shaft. Again, very little real pain associated with this.

When the stone gets in the urethra and starts moving down, that's when you can start actively managing things, although this can take days too. What you want to be looking for is when the stone obviously gets into the tip and is very close to coming out. At that point, you should be able to lightly squeeze and detect exactly where it is. (I said LIGHTLY.)

It's at this point that I usually attempt the "break the dam" strategy. As you go to bed, drink a huge thing of decaf with a shot of bourbon it. The goal is to sleep and let the dam (pee) build up. When you wake up having to go really bad, DON'T GO! Instead, pound a beer or two.

Wait a couple of hours, and then go. Get the sieve, put it in the toilet, and pee the sucker out. You will likely be shocked at how much of a non-event this is. Relieving the pee will be a much bigger effect than the actual stone moving through.

Good luck!

You might want to start taking cranberry pills. I've had kidney stones 3 times and began taking the pills after the last event. It's been 10 years since I've had a relapse.