Blood in the urine...

[STCM(SW)]

Well, after the CS, the doctor saw me today.
I have a 8 mm stone in the tube from the right kidney that is
only 7 mm wide. No pain.
There going to use Sonar to try to break up the stone next month.
I know about ultra sonic, we could really vibrate a sub with some
of the active sonar our ships have!
Hoping for the best because if that does not work it's a
laser and under the knife....

 

[elm_creek_smith]

Well, after the CS, the doctor saw me today.
I have a 8 mm stone in the tube from the right kidney that is
only 7 mm wide. No pain.
There going to use Sonar to try to break up the stone next month.
I know about ultra sonic, we could really vibrate a sub with some
of the active sonar our ships have!
Hoping for the best because if that does not work it's a
laser and under the knife....

Best of luck.

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[Lt JL]

they'll ultrasound it with a lithotriptor. It's not like they are going to make you pass ten pounds of rock through a five pound bag

 

[Spleenless Dave]

Good luck!

You should look at the doc as they get ready to use the sonar/ultrasound and imitate Sean Connery from "The hunt for Red October" and say "Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only, please."

 

[dan323]

Good luck.

 

[Frank46]

I had one about 30 or so years back. Wife came home from work to find me on the floor. It was that bad. Just before I was supposed to go to the emergency room I had to pass water. Heard a little tink in the toilet and felt like someone had used a red hot poker. Started feeling better almost immediately. Went to the ER the doc said I got lucky and passed a stone. Nurse said with all that pain it's the closest a man can feel what a woman does when she give birth. Frank

 

[loknload]

Sir, I wish you the best and a speedy recovery....

 

[Kencan]

had one about 25 years ago, i floated it out by drinking beer since the doctor told me something in the beer dont remember what made it or my inside slicker, anyway after a couple days a couple six packs she came out alright BUT holy jesus i thought i would die, the stream would stop and start and then finally after maybe 15 minutes of crying, yelling and straining she came out and made a splash in the toilet. Hope yours is easier.

 

[wingriderz]

Ugg I have many bouts with stones. Be careful with the surgery the last one I had about three years ago. They opted for surgery. When they got there he couldn't get stone out. Ended up putting two stints in for two weeks. They take those out at office vist. Uh never again. Kidney stones are far more whorse pain than open heart surgery for valve replacment

 

[petepeterson]

Ugg I have many bouts with stones. Be careful with the surgery the last one I had about three years ago. They opted for surgery. When they got there he couldn't get stone out. Ended up putting two stints in for two weeks. They take those out at office vist. Uh never again. Kidney stones are far more whorse pain than open heart surgery for valve replacment

This was my experience, as well. Not trying to alarm you, but the surgery thing was not one of my fonder memories. I've called in sick 4 times in 21 years at my current place of employment. That episode accounted for half of those.

 

[TTSH]

Well, after the CS, the doctor saw me today. I have a 8 mm stone in the tube from the right kidney that is only 7 mm wide. No pain. There going to use Sonar to try to break up the stone next month. I know about ultra sonic, we could really vibrate a sub with some of the active sonar our ships have! Hoping for the best because if that does not work it's a laser and under the knife....

I'm supposedly in possession of a 9mm stone myself on my left side according to the ultrasound folks... although, for some reason, my Doc says he thinks it's more like 4 or 5mm. I have no idea why the difference. For now, he is trying to hold it stable or even shrink it by having me take massive doses of Potassium Citrate as well as my usual Allopurinol.

Lithotripsy (i.e., ESWL... twice) didn't work for me. For my first big stone, they had to go in and take it out the hard way.

 

[vigil617]

I feel for you, Master Chief, having recently gone through a similar bout -- my first. My stone was in the kidney first, broken by lithotripsy, but the pieces stuck in my ureter. Docs can't predict if they will pass or not at that point. I opted to go ahead right away and have surgery, as I was having pain on about a 4 of 10 scale and knew it could get much worse. Good thing too: my doc found during surgery that my ureter's diameter wouldn't have accommodated passage.

The surgery was a breeze, even though it is "transurethral." Patients are fully anesthetized the whole time. The procedure involves a stent extending from inside the kidney all the way to the bladder, which dilates the ureter enough so the doc can go in with a tiny laser to blast the stone into small pieces and get it out.

The stent stays in for a few days. It's very flexible and not uncomfortable. There is a long string attached to the lower end, and the other end of the string is outside your body and allows a technician to remove the stent when the time comes. Removal is not painful, just kinda weird feeling. My tech had me take a deep breath and blow it out slowly and forcefully while she (yes, she) smoothly pulled the stent right out. It was a breeze that way.

One thing to watch out for with the surgery: there is a particular general anesthetic called succinylcholine that causes bad muscle soreness in the chest, abdomen, and upper arms starting a day or so after surgery and lasting for a couple of days. It's the kind of soreness you get when you've laid off working out for a while and then way overdo it. There are other anesthetics they can use instead, and my suggestion to you is to ask them about those. I had the succinylcholine, and I could hardly get up out of my recliner, I was so sore. Otherwise, I think I could have gone back to work right away after my surgery. Never again with that one!

 

[vigil617]

Good luck!

You should look at the doc as they get ready to use the sonar/ultrasound and imitate Sean Connery from "The hunt for Red October" and say "Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only, please."

Love the quote, Dave, but you wouldn't want to only get one ping from the lithotripsy machine. The one I had gave me about 1,000 impulses to break my stone. It's not uncomfortable. Kinda like the feeling you get if you snap a rubber band against your skin firmly but not hard. It doesn't sting; you just feel it. Good thing is, they give you a mild anesthestic so you're awake but very chilled out, so you really don't mind.

 

[Rule3]

Well, actually the surgery is more like this! They don't like to tell you until strapped to the table!

 

[old bear]

Wishing you a speedy and painless recovery.

 

[JamesArthur60]

OMG! I know actually what you feel. I had one surgically removed over 30 years ago. The pain from the stone woke me up and dropped me to the floor. I got hit again this July 3rd. Woke me up again and BAM! I suspected something was coming because about 3 weeks prior to the pain, I was peeing a chocolate milk colored stream into the toilet. I had that same thing happen with my first stone.

This time a FD medic takes me to the ER. A CTscan and Ultrasound reveals a trapped stone. Rushed to surgery, this time up threw the penis. The doc puts in a stent (as described by others), except per his written instructions, I have to remove it after 4 days. Come day 4, I sit on the toilet and begin to pull. Holy ****, this does not feel right, but I keep slowly pulling. Finally it's out. After only one hour I'm in severe pain and can hardly move. Back to the ER. Apparently the ureter had collapsed closed. PAIN!!! I was prescribed a lot of pills plus a steroid to help stop the pain and aid in the recovery.

My follow up appointment with the urologist wasn't too exciting. He told me the stone he removed was oxalate calcium. Plus, I have another stone in the other kidney. I have to come back for a X-ray in 6 months to monitor the size and placement. For all you guys with kidney stones have you seen the foods to avoid that contain oxalate? Do a search, it's basically the American diet that is no good. Drink lots of water. Good luck (to all of us).

Here's a partial list of foods to eliminate from your diet if you had an oxalate calcium stone:

red meat
peanuts
chocolate
spinach
artificial sweeteners
salt
carbonated drinks
dairy foods
processed foods
energy drinks
bran flakes
sweet potatoes
peanut butter
tea
coffee

 

[riverrat38]

Well, actually the surgery is more like this! They don't like to tell you until strapped to the table!

Open crotch surgery!

Best,
Rick

 

[jsfricks]

I get a kidney stone or two every six months and have been for about 10 years now. 99.9% are on my left side where they have been since I was 17. They no longer cause me pain, I guess because it's killed all the nerves on that side or something. When I was 21 I had a large one like yours, it was stuck in the tube. They tried blasting it, but it just put a few cracks in it. They then went in with the basket and tried bumping it to see if it would break up and fall apart, but it didn't. So then they sliced me open and went in and got it out. I've been cut twice in the last 55 years in two different places due to stones. So I feel your pain. Mine are always Calcium Oxcilate and I've tried eliminating the foods that they say you should but still got the stones. Then I went back to regular eating and went about 13 years without one. I guess I've had 40-50 stones over the years.

 

[BigBill]

I found out when I was checked for prostate cancer I have a golfball sized kidney stone in my left kidney. Due to my age and health they won't touch it. I told them to remove the kidney they won't. I get a little pain in my left side of my lower back and a little blood in my urine sometimes. I have worse health problems but I'm still on this side of the green I'm ok.

You will be ok get that stone out.

I wanted to get my stone out and crush it in a vise to put some pain to it.....each day I'd tighten it a little more.

 

[Murphy's Law]

Many years back (80's & 90's), I had six separate stones. Each time they had to go in and get it with a basket since they were to large to pass per the CTscan. I will never will forget the pain during the attacks (when stone is on the move), and in my case vomiting. One would think in this day & time, they would have developed some liquid medicine that would just plan dissolve those darn things! Good Luck