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re: Just Got My First Kidney Stone, What To Expect?

Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:10 pm to
Posted by dawgfan24348
Member since Oct 2011
50536 posts
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:10 pm to
No idea just went to an urgent care, didn't feel like paying $1000 to possibly have them tell me I need more fluids
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
69899 posts
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:11 pm to
Welcome to what it probably feels like to be a Mississippi State fan.

Except you turds have been to the top of the mountain like eleventy hundred years ago...

Posted by Shaun176
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2008
2691 posts
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:11 pm to
There is a youtube video of jeff foxworthy talking about his kidney stone.
Posted by LuckySo-n-So
Member since Jul 2005
22301 posts
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:12 pm to
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The pain is when the stone is moving. If it's in your bladder it will probably be no more pain




This.

I had three stones sit in my bladder for a long time. One for about three years, another for 2 1/2, and another for a few months.

Then, without warning, I passed all three within a month.

The following stone went from kidney to bladder to toilet in about 4 hours. That one was one of the worst.
Posted by Tridentds
Sugar Land
Member since Aug 2011
22297 posts
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:12 pm to
More pain. To the point where you will avoid known triggers. For me it was Tums antacid. Had no idea they could result in a kidney stone. Have probably had less than 5 or 6 Tums in the past 15 years. No joke.
Posted by geauxtigers6492
Admin in Waiting
Member since Jun 2008
3981 posts
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:13 pm to
Pain.
Posted by Fratigerguy
Member since Jan 2014
4846 posts
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:16 pm to
Sounds like everyone’s pretty much covered it. Once it goes to the bladder, you’re fine. I’ve had several. The first couple were the same. Severe back pain and nausea. Some pin in the abdomen. The rest have been much, much worse. As bad as the pain in your back and abdomen are (which is equated to having a baby natural), the ones that give you pain in the ballsack are so, so bad. Like someone putting your balls in a vice for squeezing them for a couple days at a time. Brutal, excruciating pain. Until I found out about toradol. God send, that stuff is.
Posted by KiwiHead
Auckland, NZ
Member since Jul 2014
32696 posts
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:17 pm to
Had one back in 1999 but did not know I had one .....at the time. Prior to the pain, a few days before I was pissing like a race horse...and I noticed my urine was dark so i drank water and it cleared up. A few mornings later around 4 a.m I woke with excruciating lower back pain. I took some Advil and I got in a jacuzzi tub with really hot water. Ran it for a while then fell asleep in the tub for awhile then moved back to bed, called my office and took the day off. Woke up around 11:00a.m. and pain was gone. Did not think anything of it again for over a year.

Posted by Relham10
Ridge
Member since Jan 2013
18285 posts
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:19 pm to
Pain, lots of pain
Posted by Three-n-Snout
Member since Nov 2012
1780 posts
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:19 pm to
Worst pain I’ve ever experienced, and I have a pretty high tolerance. I needed a double shot of morphine at the ER to just take the edge off..

Posted by LSUfootball222
Member since Oct 2009
1164 posts
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:20 pm to
Incorrect.

The pain isn’t from “passing” the stone. You get pain when the stone is lodged in your ureter causing a blockage of urine proximal to the stone causing your collecting system to swell. That’s the pain.
Posted by TigerGman
Center of the Universe
Member since Sep 2006
12307 posts
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:23 pm to
steaming hot baths and beer, lots and lots of beer ( seriously).
Posted by OSoBad
Member since Nov 2016
2007 posts
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:23 pm to
Damn, worst thing I've been through. I thought my appendix or something busted until I figured out what was going on. I still have the pokey bastard in a bag as a souvenir. Good luck.
Posted by tkeefer
TX
Member since Apr 2004
1121 posts
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:24 pm to


Posted by griswold
Member since Oct 2009
4183 posts
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:24 pm to
You had a tiny one and already passed if you are extremely lucky. If not you are in for the worst pain of your life. Clear the house of any loaded weapons because you will want to kill yourself.
Posted by LuckySo-n-So
Member since Jul 2005
22301 posts
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:24 pm to
quote:

Incorrect.

The pain isn’t from “passing” the stone. You get pain when the stone is lodged in your ureter causing a blockage of urine proximal to the stone causing your collecting system to swell. That’s the pain.


I guess I wasn't clear. The worst pain stone I had was when the whole process took four hours. Once it reached my bladder the worst was over. I could feel every excruciating mm the stone moved from kidney to bladder.

However, for the ones that hung out in my bladder for a while, when they started to pass, it felt like someone was squeezing my nuts with a wrench every 20 seconds for a couple weeks. It hurt, but not like when they moved to my bladder.
Posted by Lithium
Member since Dec 2004
63612 posts
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:26 pm to
Number one that's not incorrect. The pain starts when the stone moves BUT if the stone does block the ureter it can cause the blockage to increase the pain. But most stones don't block the ureter
Posted by Esquire
Chiraq
Member since Apr 2014
13382 posts
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:27 pm to
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Had a sharp pain in the left side of my lower back and had been pissing a lot lately so I decided to go to the doctors


The only decision I had to make during my last stone was whether to rush to the ER or consider it a good run and put myself out of my misery. No hyperbole, the worst pain I have ever felt in my life.
Posted by RollTide1987
Augusta, GA
Member since Nov 2009
68288 posts
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:27 pm to
quote:

What To Expect?


I've never had one but I would suspect you're more likely to die from complications to it than you are to something like COVID-19.

Posted by genuineLSUtiger
Nashville
Member since Sep 2005
75776 posts
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:30 pm to
Study up on Stoicism and meditation. You detach from your body and observe the pain but don’t participate in it.
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