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[aliencowz7]

They must not be that bad, then. Cuz I assure you, I'm tough and the pain I was experiencing was not something I could just 'lay there and take'. In fact, I couldn't stop moving around and when a nurse saw me, she suspected right away it was kidney stones because I was doing that. I had to sit still while they took blood and that was the worst part. Sitting still definitely made it worse.

Just saying, your experience is quite obviously less extreme than other cases, pain-wise. People going around saying its not that bad obviously hasn't had it bad, cuz 'agonizing' is most definitely not an overstatement in my past experience.

The person who is saying you can just 'ignore pain' has no clue what they are talking about.

Uh, I had one of the largest kidney stones the hospital here had ever seen. Its not about ignoring pain, its about making it through pain which I have become able to do over repeated bouts with kidney stones. It has nothing to do with how tough you are just how much pain you are willing to go through before you want to go to the ER and I have agoraphobia and extreme social anxiety so yeah it takes alot more for me to go to the hospital then you.

I have had small not so bad ones, and HUGE incredibly painful ones, and these days I just weather the storm on both so I don't have to go to the hospital.

 

[Seanspeed]

Uh, I had one of the largest kidney stones the hospital here had ever seen. Its not about ignoring pain, its about making it through pain which I have become able to do over repeated bouts with kidney stones. It has nothing to do with how tough you are just how much pain you are willing to go through before you want to go to the ER and I have agoraphobia and extreme social anxiety so yeah it takes alot more for me to go to the hospital then you.

I have had small not so bad ones, and HUGE incredibly painful ones, and these days I just weather the storm on both so I don't have to go to the hospital.

Of course you can 'weather the storm'. Nobody is saying you're gonna die if you dont take pain killers. But it sounds like you're just torturing yourself cuz you admit that there are incredibly painful ones.

 

[Hero_of_the_Day]

Ive had nonstop kidney stones since I was young after I got beat up getting off the school bus and ended up with a bruised kidney / internal bleeding. I assume they are linked since that's when it all started but docs have never been able to figure it out.

I don't drink any soda, I don't drink or eat anything with caffeine and I Eat extremely plain foods so don't think its dietary.

Yeah. They run in my wifes family. After her first, she was given a huge list of food to avoid and sticks to it pretty well and drinks tons of water and lemon juice. She still gets them. I guess if you're chosen, you're chosen and there's not shit you can do about it. 15 in a year sounds like hell.

 

[Ganhyun]

Ive had a few kidney stones. The first was an agonizing one as it cut me coming out. After I was done I was so pale that people thought I needed to go to the hospital still. After that every time I pissed I bled and it hurt for a while until it healed. The second was smaller and a breeze compared to the first. I don't want anymore.

 

[maxxpower]

You gotta drink more water dude.

 

[shira]

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ok morpheus. have you ever had a kidney stone?[/QUOTE]
No, but I work in a hospital and have guided patients through the experience hundreds of times. My specialty is pain research.

If you choose to believe that there are lucky stones and non-lucky stones well there is always opiods. Opiods don't stop pain, they just make you ignore the signals better. People tend to like the relax method better.

 

[Agentnibs]

When i had my kidney stone i coudn't even sit in a chair properly. I remember collapsing so much they had to put me a wheel chair but i even fell out of that. Threw up all over the er floor too cause of the pain. They gave me some pill and then morphine and then some other drug that was supposed to be even stronger to kill the pain. Even still it hurt like a bitch. Peeing it out wasnt so bad, its when it travels from the kindey down where it really hurts.

Seriously they suck, op hasnt even begun to feel it if he was still able to post

 

[dalin80]

Friend had one a couple of years ago while he was on holiday, he likened the pain to having a oxyacetylene torch shoved into his abdomen on full burn.

The sheer terror that flashed back on his face while recanting the story was enough to make me believe it was true, have you ever seen a grown man be truly afraid? its very disturbing.


But don't worry OP, iam sure you will be fine and simply ignore the pain like some of the alpha-males in here.

 

[awm8604]

Mix together 2 ounces of olive oil and 2 ounces of lemon juice. Down it and follow with 16 ounces of water. Say bye bye to kidney stones without doing to the doctor.

 

[Insane Metal]

I pissed one with ~5mm some years ago. I still have it somewhere in my room, lol. yeah I kept it to remember.

And now I have one about 7mm in my kidney. Sometimes I feel a mild pain but it goes away so fuck it.

 

[Cipherr]

No such thing as luck.

Pain is just electrical signals sent to your brain. You can choose to ignore them.

ok morpheus.

Oh man this floored me.

 

[Johnas]

I had my first one a couple of years ago.

The key to prevention (for most people) is to generally stay hydrated. Just because you're not working outside all day in hot weather doesn't mean you shouldn't be drinking more. In my case, I actually was working outside all day, and really not hydrating well at all. My urologist basically said a person needs to be producing (urinating, not sweating) 2 liters every day. So whatever you do sweat is not included in "production".

Water is obviously the best, but don't feel like that's all you're allowed to drink ever again. He actually also recommended frequent lemonade intake, but mentioned I'd probably get tired of it after a while. Do use some common sense and keep sodas, etc. to a relative minimum.

I also have doubts about the whole "too much calcium" angle as well. A recent study I read (I'll post the link if I can find it, it's been a couple of months) indicated that stones (calcium-based ones anyway) could very possibly be caused by an overall lack of calcium, stating that stone formation (and bone spurs, etc.) were results of the body hoarding calcium when the overall level was low. This happens to line up with my own anecdotal experience, as unlike most kids I rarely ever drank milk growing up (started occasionally drinking it in my early twenties).

Some people, for one reason or another, are just predisposed to kidney stone formation.

 

[Cheech]

Oh man this floored me.

I wonder if he took a break from cooking heroin to type that.

 

[d0c_zaius]

one of the most difficult to watch tv moments in history

 

[Xeke]

So if I drink nothing but Vodka will I be at less of a risk?

 

[Chuck Norris]

god speed

 

[mr jones]

I might be dealing with a kidney stone. I had dull pain on the lower left side of my back since Monday. Its been getting worse. I'm hoping its just a pulled muscle.

 

[JackEtc]

I'm 18 and am deathly afraid of kidney stones. Terrified. I don't want to grow up and get them.

 

[Window]

^^ I got one when I was 18. No idea why as I don't drink anything except water at all. The pain started while I was on a 7 hour flight no less....

 

[Altazor]

today I woke up at 6 AM with the biggest pain I've ever felt in my entire life.

I live alone and I had to call an ambulance and shit to get me to the clinic as I was almost completely immobilized by the pain.

After a couple of exams... YEP, KIDNEY STONES. The doctor said it was a small one, thankfully... but the pain, oh the pain, it's excruciating, it's maddening, it's soulcrushingly unbearable.

On the other hand, I haven't been able to get the fucking stone out of my body yet, and I've peed a whole fucking lot

 

[OddSpoon]

Am always worried that if I so happen get a kidney stone, what happens when you get a boner, lose boner etc.

 

[Greecian-]

To those saying it can't be that painful, please stop.

I'm 24 now. I had a kidney stone last year and it was the most painful thing I've ever experienced. I should have known something was wrong because my urine was a different color. I noticed this change in urine color the day before the pain began. I woke up the next day to a dull pain in my lower back on the left side. It wasn't painful at first, but I knew it wasn't normal because I had never felt that before. Within ten minutes, I was on the floor in the fetal position waiting for my mom to bring me to the ER. The pain kidney stones cause is immense. And mine was tiny.

 

[JackEtc]

^^ I got one when I was 18. No idea why as I don't drink anything except water at all. The pain started while I was on a 7 hour flight no less....

AHHH DONT TELL ME THAT

 

[NomarTyme]

Where is this from?

 

[iNvid02]

Your body kinda gives you a heads-up that one is on the way though. If you pee and barely anything comes out, and then immediately feel the urge to pee again but barely anything comes out (over and over), you have a UTI or a stone. Pray for the UTI.

I had this a few times when I was younger, but I don't know if it was UTI or stones, I'm guessing infection

 

[Window]

Where is this from?

Deadwood