It's gonna be a very long day... or two

Get out, get out GET OUT!

I appreciate all of your kind {although somewhat graphic} thoughts... If I just had a clue when the damned thing would move I could be better prepared. It has been just under 24 hours since it began and the CT Scan showed it about half way on its journey out of my body. I'm guessing that hopefully, sometime soon we will part company... Arrrg!

I have had a lot of experience with opioids over the years and know what they do and don't accomplish and yes the 5's are not all that strong but I will just have to make do. Thanks again... time for another "5'. Wish me luck.
 
Drink lots and lots of fluids. Doesn't matter what you drink, drink lots. Starting in late May i'd been dealing with two stones and the aftermath until 23 July. Finely got clear and never felt so good. Long story but i got an infection and spent 5 days in the hospital which started with a fever of 104.4.
 
Oh I feel your pain. I've had a few and even had to have a surgery for one. My old urologist would tell me to go grab some beer and start drinking to help pass it along. I'm not a drinker so I just did plenty of fluids. It's bad but not completely horrible passing it, my worst pain is what you already experienced. Just know that when you're peeing good and all of a sudden the stream stops, your about to blast it out of there LOL.


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Yeah, a woman from where I retired from said kidney stone was worse than childbirth.
The stone I last had they put me out to destroy it with sound waves. (I can't spell the word.) But, of course, they left a piece in there and I was damned near laying on the ER floor and spent 3 days in the hospital. Of course, he thought I'd like to have the tube shoved up there just in case for about a week. When he pulled that out I was 2 ticks away from passing out! 45 seconds of pure torture! I think I heard him say "Is it safe?" a couple times in a Teutonic accent!
 
Fellow 'gravel pit' here.

Toradol is the only thing that gives me anything resembling relief. It works better than opiates for the ureter pain from the offending object.

I wish you Good Luck, and quick passage.
 
Been there, I feel your pain. Percoset couldn't scratch the pain level for me. Ended up with morphine pills.
This too shall pass.
 
My first one was many years ago.Wife asked me if I wanted to go to the hospital and I said...NO... if the indians could stand the pain I would be able to also...20 mins later she asked again...I said yes. She took me to the ER(where she worked)...told the doc on duty what I said...he told me that most indians with kidney stones go out and fall on a dull arrow to get away from the excrutiating pain. He and my wife were both asses. They both laughed at me. Lithotripsy is your friend! Since then have had a few gravel incidents. Still...not fun
 
Medical update... sort of

OP here and day 6 my stone is still in residence somewhere between my kidney and jumping off/departure point. When they did the CT Scan it showed it to be halfway between my kidney and bladder hence all of the incredible pain. The doc said it should pass in a few days to a week but so far no luck but also no pain {yet}.

Just got a call from the VA scheduling a followup visit for Thursday morning {day 8} down at the phoenix VA hospital. I hope it's gone by Thursday but one way or another a followup exam sounds like a very good idea.

Thanks again for all of the kind thoughts... the scary stories not so much. (o;
 
I hurt just reading this thread. Just brings back memories of my "ordeal" 6 years ago; I'll just to cut to the chase, you all know the pain ordeal. 7MM stone, hospitalized three days, stone was finally removed surgically. Docs compare it to a bad child birth--I told my wife if I were a woman and knew this, there isn't a chance I'd have any kids. :eek::D
 
Capt Steve - as soon as I read your symptoms in your OP, I thought, "kidney stone!". Just this past May I had a 6x2 mm stone (my fifth) stuck between my kidney and bladder for 3-1/2 weeks. I felt when it finally moved into the bladder, and fortunately it passed pain free a few days later.

Hope yours does the same!
 
Been there, done that. Best thing is it will pass. More pain kidney to bladder. Less pain bladder on out. Unless it sticks in the very end. One of Mine did that and I had to dig it out. Best of luck too You.
 
My wife has a girl friend that gets them.
She found out that one of the problems that lead to them was the......

8 cans of coke that she drank each day.
 
Sistema1927 said:
Ouch! As I began reading, I thought "ruptured appendix, sure hope he went to the ER". In retrospect, a ruptured appendix might be less painful.
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I've had both and one of the kidney stones was worse. Somehow I'm lucky and don't seem to feel a lot of pain when the stone is up in the kidney at all, but when it came out, WOW. I personally would take the stone because it wouldn't be the two weeks and a day of hell I spent in the hospital with peritonitis after my appendix blew. I was 12, and I'm certain if it happened now, I wouldn't make it.
 
Llance said:
Drink lots and lots of fluids. Doesn't matter what you drink, drink lots.
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They used a sonic device to break up my stones. The doctor's advice was to drink lots of any kind of liquid to prevent recurrence..

That kidney stone attack was about 20 years ago, and I never had the same problem again. Right after that incident, I decided logically that bourbon whiskey would be my liquid of choice. Turned out it has been an excellent solvent and has kept me kidney stone free ever since.

Like my mentor W.C. Fields said, "for medicinal purposes."

John

 
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