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I drink an insane amount of water every day and have maybe 1 soda a week. Still got kidney stones. I eat healthy, exercise. I've been doing kale smoothies for years. Sometimes, you just get them.

My lithotripsy was pretty quick this morning. Now I have a urethral dilator (Flomax) and a bottle of percocet. Ready to party.
 
Man, hope I never get a kidney stone, sounds pretty awful. My cousin got one over a decade ago and he said he'd rather die than go through it again.

Do you think something like reverse kidney stone would be a fetish for some people? Like sounding, but inserting progressively larger kidney stones using long, small forceps back through the urethral canal?
 
Eddz said:
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cirrhosis said:
Do you think something like reverse kidney stone would be a fetish for some people? Like sounding, but inserting progressively larger kidney stones using long, small forceps back through the urethral canal?
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Dude what
 
Every time this thread comes up; I always get conflicting responses on what to avoid. Basically everything is off the table except water and some spinach. And the question, "how much water" never has a single answer.

This is my absolute nightmare, and being inactive at both my work and my home only makes my mind spin.

Doctors say tea is bad, but I read a study that says it reduces the risk. I've read that wine, coffee and orange juice prevents it, but overall fructose is bad.

I don't know what to believe :( I'll just squeeze a bunch of lemons into my mouth.
 
I have had kidney stones twice in my 20's. I put it down to my drinking habits back then.- Would rarely drink any water, Just coffee to cure the hangover.

Once I hit my 30's I figured out water is key. Since then I have never had another stone.

And holy shit do they hurt. Especially when you have to pass one.
 
I would say try to avoid the ER if you can if you have kidney stones. I go to insta-care when I have mine and it isn't as expensive. They can't do anything for you anyway except say you're peeing blood so drink lots of fluid and here are some pain pills, good luck. I had them so bad I had to have the lithotripsy procedure. You're not a real man until you have that procedure done and have a stent put in and then have to have it removed while you're totally awake, jk. They basically pull a tube out your dick hole while you're awake with not really anything to numb it. Worst pain or experience of my life. Enjoy your stones.
 
I had to go a couple of times to ER but not because of a stone, only for a little dust that cant be considered a full stone and one of the times I had to get a shot for the pain and both times i had to take medicación for a week. Dont want to imagine what a big one will do.

Always keep yourself hidrated guys, the best way to know if you are hidrated its to look at your urine color, the more clear it is the better.

In my trip to Japan last month I was constantly worried that something could happen because there you sweat a lot and even with all the vending machines with drinks I wasnt getting hidrated enough.
 
Twenty-five years old, and I've never had a kidney stone and it's not something in my family. Regardless, this thread has me clasping my sides in fear.
 
I got my first one about a month ago.

Thought I just had a sore muscle in my lower back, but no amount of lying down or repositioning would make the pain go away. After a few hours of the dull pain growing and growing it started to become pretty unbearable.

Tried to call my doctor but they just told me to go to an urgent care or ER. I did so just in time to start vomiting violently on a level I have never vomited in my entire life.

A ton of opiates and some Zofram later and I was feeling like a million bucks. MRI showed a 3.5mm stone.

Took about a week and a half and a lot of Vicodin to pass.

I've dealt with a lot of pain from gout over the years but all that was nothing compared to the pain of that tiny little stone. Passing it was more weird than painful, but the journey it takes from kidney to bladder is absolute torture.

I am currently making whatever lifestyle and dietary changes I need to to make sure I never get one of those again.
 
Had a coworker once who left his passed kidney stones in the break room fridge for about a week. Not even in a bag. Just the clear plastic cup from the doctor's office.
 
My mum had hers removed, couldn't believe stones that big could be inside a person. No wonder she said the pain was extreme.
 
I hate these threads. :( They freak me out for weeks after I read them, yet I am inexorably drawn to them whenever they are posted.

Not that I blame you op, I would no doubt run to gaf if I went through this
 
Am 30.
Drink 2 litres of diet coke a day pretty much every single day for the last decade.
Also eat half a kilo of red meat nearly every single day.

Only male in the family that never had kidney stones.

Come at me gaf.

Fwiw, couldnt find anything about diet sodas increasing the likelyhood of kidney stones. No surprise, given that they're 99% water.
 
Coriolanus said:
Am 30.
Drink 2 litres of diet coke a day pretty much every single day for the last decade.
Also eat half a kilo of red meat nearly every single day.

Only male in the family that never had kidney stones.
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....Yet. ;)

That said,
Come at me gaf.

Fwiw, couldnt find anything about diet sodas increasing the likelyhood of kidney stones. No surprise, given that they're 99% water.
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Yes, there are a lot of myths in this thread. Oh well, for once I'm not too bothered because at least there's nothing harmful in drinking lots of water or avoiding soda, heh.
 
Coriolanus said:
Am 30.
Drink 2 litres of diet coke a day pretty much every single day for the last decade.
Also eat half a kilo of red meat nearly every single day.

Only male in the family that never had kidney stones.

Come at me gaf.

Fwiw, couldnt find anything about diet sodas increasing the likelyhood of kidney stones. No surprise, given that they're 99% water.
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Same diet only i drink more diet coke *bro fist*

Never had kidney stones
Never had chicken pox
Never had a sinus infection
Haven't gotten the flu since i stopped getting the shot 21 years ago

If only we could have a babies we could create the ultimate human specimen
 
I had one just 2 weeks ago, had to go to the ER. I had some hydrocodone from my last one and the pain just laughed at it, it didn't do anything.

I've had about 20+ throughout my life, some of them I pass with very mild discomfort, others need some prescription narcotic to ease it out. And occasionally you'll have one that will make you shoot up heroin if thats all you have.

Most people think passing them out through the penis is the hard part, most often you won't know or you'll barely feel it. The real fun is when it gets stuck between your urinary tract and your bladder. It can make suicide seem reasonable.
 
Heartfyre said:
Twenty-five years old, and I've never had a kidney stone and it's not something in my family. Regardless, this thread has me clasping my sides in fear.
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Kidney stones are awful, but you needn't live your life in fear.

Drink water, minimize the soda, and understand if you do get a stone, you can receive help for it.
 
I should add that for some, not all, changing your diet doesn't do a fucking thing. I got them when I drank lots of soda, coffee, beer, water, gatorade, lemonade, it doesn't make a difference. Mine are uric acid stones, my kidneys have some build up over time, the uric acid crystalizes and can form stones. My urologist said that I can pass most of these and never know they are there, but others build up before they finally get free and then its straight to hell. Drinking lots of water will help flush my kidneys but it doesn't stop the uric acid build up.
 
Senoculum said:
Every time this thread comes up; I always get conflicting responses on what to avoid. Basically everything is off the table except water and some spinach. And the question, "how much water" never has a single answer.

This is my absolute nightmare, and being inactive at both my work and my home only makes my mind spin.

Doctors say tea is bad, but I read a study that says it reduces the risk. I've read that wine, coffee and orange juice prevents it, but overall fructose is bad.

I don't know what to believe :( I'll just squeeze a bunch of lemons into my mouth.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0058580/
This has lots of good info.

Your doctor may suggest making changes to your diet, such as:

-Drinking more water
-You should try to drink at least eight to ten 8-ounce drinking glasses of water a day.
-Drinking fewer soft drinks or eliminating soft drinks
-If you drink soft drinks, you should avoid soft drinks that contain phosphoric acid alone without citric acid.
-Making sure to get enough calcium in the foods you eat
-Although it may be surprising, too little calcium in your diet can actually increase your risk of getting another calcium stone. Your doctor can tell you if you are getting enough calcium in your diet.
-Taking calcium dietary supplements (such as calcium pills or chews) may not lower your risk for getting another calcium stone as well as getting calcium from food. -The best way to assure you are getting enough calcium is to make sure your diet includes enough calcium-rich foods. Examples of calcium-rich foods include milk, cheese, and yogurt.
-Talk with your doctor about which calcium-rich foods are good to eat and if there are any that you should avoid.
-Eating a diet low in sodium (salt)
-Try to eat fresh vegetables and meats instead of processed foods. If you buy canned foods, make sure they have no salt added.
-Use other seasonings instead of salt to flavor food. Make sure any spice blends you use do not contain salt.
-Eating a diet low in animal protein
-Limit the amount of meat, fish, and eggs you eat.
-Avoiding foods high in oxalate (for example, spinach, rhubarb, nuts, and wheat bran)
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I'm terrified of getting them.
 
The reason a 2 mm stone can cause so much pain is the ureter is only like 3 mm wide. It's meant to handle liquids, not a spikey shithead of a kidney stone. It's also got tons of nerves:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ureter#Innervation

I will spare you all the details of my own fun with stones. People who don't get them just have absolutely no idea how badly they can fuck you up.
 
Does selling a kidney halve the risk of getting stones? Because I heard they can go for some good prices and there's no way I'm taking any chances after reading this thread.
 
chunk3rvd said:
What the fuck guys? I came into this thread hoping for reassurance, support and solidarity. I leave filled with terror

I ended up in A&E at 6:00 on Sunday morning due to intense pain in my lower abdomen. The pain passed after I was given some decent drugs but they found blood in my urine sample and asked me to come back the next day for a CT scan. The result was that I have one large stone that's left my kidney and I will pass it at some point soon and I also have 2 small stones still in my kidney. They want me to start pissing into a sieve so I can catch the thing for them to analyse it but how mental am I going to look talking a sieve to the toilet in work?

Worst part is knowing it's there and will come out soon. Every piss I have is now filled with terror and tension. Like a much less fun game of Buckaroo where instead of a donkey flinging bits of plastic everywhere, the surprise is my urethra getting ripped to shreds :(
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Yeah, like another poster said...getting it from your bladder and out of your body is nothing. Part of the reason you pee through a strainer is to catch it because you may not even know you pee'd it out. If you're able to pass it from the kidney to the bladder, you're fine. You're out of the woods for that stone at least. I still have 3 tiny ones in my right kidney, but all 3 together are still smaller than the 3.5mm one I passed a few weeks ago. I'm not too worried, although I need to get some lemon juice moving soon so they don't get any bigger.
 
I've been lucky, and I've been in the habit for years of drinking lots of fluids.

A buddy of mine had one years ago, a fellow Marine, his pain threshold was just as high as mine, and he couldn't handle it any better than anyone else. I saw what he was going through firsthand, I fully believe the stories and I'm glad I haven't had to deal with it myself, and hope I never do.
 
Got a stone in high school ages ago and luckily it passed without needing any sort of surgery. I remember my diet was pretty terrible back then, but after the stone I was absolutely terrified and changed it as much as I could (Ugh, I still remember the first time like it was yesterday).

Unfortunately for me, I started slipping in my diet, and about a couple months ago I got another Kidney Stone, this one much larger than the one in highschool. The pain was absolutely agonizing, and what more, this one didn't pass naturally (it was way too big), and I had to get it surgically removed :(

The moral of the story is to try not to get any kidney stones ever. They're absolutely awful :(
I feel like my diet is slipping again though :(
 
I had one two summers back and it was the worst experience of my life. I remember having to pull over on the side of the road every few minutes to throw up from the pain.

Eventually, after a day and a heap of pain meds, I got it out and caught it in a strainer, apparently it was all from dehydration.

Ever since, I drink AT LEAST five bottles a day of water (which is all I drink besides coffee anyways) so I prevent further issue.

Scary, painful stuff man.
 
... This isn't the reason I've been getting random stabbing pains in my sides is it? Feels like someone is poking me with a needle. Only happens once in a while
 
Kibbles said:
... This isn't the reason I've been getting random stabbing pains in my sides is it? Feels like someone is poking me with a needle. Only happens once in a while
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Are you female? If so, that just might be your follicles. If not... uh... what Shadow_Lord said, surely.
 
I began having kidney stones issues on July 2011, I was 22 at the time. It's the worst pain I ever had in my whole life. I throwed up and had so much discomfort trying to laid down or sitting. Since that first time, I been dealing with at least two per year and my last was back on December. I use to drink soda everyday, at least three times each day since I was a kid. I haven't drank one since 2011 though and I mostly drink water now.

Funny story about this, in one of my last visits to the emergency room, the doctor told me to go buy a six pack of beer and drink some of it as it would help me getting them out. I didn't do it that night, as I was feeling really bad and I had to take some medicine for the pain. But in one of those days I began to have pain of a kidney stone and I remembered what he told me. So, I decided to give it a try and drank a beer and after 20-30 mins of intense pain I finally felt the stone going down and I manage to get it out of my body lol. I was really surprised that suggestion really worked, and it manage to save me from a trip to the hospital.
 
Screw the soda haters. Citrus sodas have actually been shown to reduce the risk of kidney stones. There is a very small increased chance that it will lead to kidney failure by 65, but we'll be printing or growing kidneys long before that becomes a problem.

Diet dew 4 life
 
i probably averaged a gallon of diet soda/day for the past 15+ years and ain't got shit yet.

holy crap i wonder if my body is saving up.
 
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