Removed little man

[Lizardman_u]

Well I developped a nice little man poking me in the kidney with a long ice-pick on the 15th of March and wasn't able to get relief. Fast forward to Thursday afternoon and the doc took the little man's icepick and replaced it with a rubber mallet.


Even though it still feels like a boxer worked me over with a pair of gloves I feel 1000 times better.

Dave

 

[whitecoyote]

Sounds painful whatever you had.
Kidney stones?

 

[Nicksterdemus]

Stones are odd critters. I saved about a dozen that I passed. One of them looks like a little football.

Then, for whatever reason, they stopped a couple of years ago.

 

[Lizardman_u]

Sounds painful whatever you had.
Kidney stones?

yea, I had a kidney stone that wasn't playing nice... two trips to the ER to be filled full of saline to try and get it to pass in three weeks time didn't work.

Dave

 

[gunlovingirl]

I've had two. The first one I actually thought I was dying! My ex rushed me to the ER, about 8 miles away, again thought I was going to die in the waiting room. After a few shots of Demerol in my IV I really didn't care if I was going to die or not! Second time was exactly one year to the day later. Another trip to the ER. I can honestly say, any man who has had a kidney stone knows the pain of giving birth! And then some!

 

[Bullet Bob]

But it feels so good when it stops hurting.

 

[JohnK]

I get so tired of women, saying the pain was exactly like childbirth.

I don't know of ANY delivery, that lasted for THREE dad gum weeks !

Lost 12 pounds getting through one stone. About the size of a BB.

 

[GKC]

I have had six (6) kidney stones, and three (3) children...not one of the kids hurt like the kidney stones!

Because of the way my system metabolizes purines into uric acid (everyone does, but I do it to excess!) I develop uric acid stones (not calcium stones) and I also have gout. I have been taking medication (allopurinol and colchicine) for years now, and it has controlled them. Gout is no fun either!

The worst one was my first...it was too big to pass and they could not break it up with ultrasound, so they went "up" and got it. That wasn't the bad part, since I was in the hospital and under general anesthesia for that. The really bad part was two weeks later, in the doctor's office, when they went back "up" with a local to pull out the plastic tube they had left in place to keep my ureter open (the ureter is the tube from the kidney to the bladder.)

Of course, they had to use an extra long set of forceps to go back in....

 

[perrazi]

due to a combination of needed drugs, i get them on a fairly regular basis. 3 times in the last 12 months, with the biggest of them 9mm. usually have them in bunches too, that way you get several trips to the emergency room in a short period of time. have had lithotripsy twice in the last year. the hospital people know me by first name and always say, you again. at least i know what the pain is when it starts and now what it takes to relieve it. if you have ever had a close look at one, they look like tiny sand burrs,but don't feel so tiny. if these are what having children is like, it's a wonder the human race ever made it this far.

 

[hsguy]

Interesting topic. I developed a kidney stone on March 2 and went in to have it removed on Thursday, nice April Fools day prank. Still not feeling great and not looking forward to the return visit to remove the stent. I did not have constant pain but when it was there it was gruesome. Did manage an 9 day trip to Kauai with no pain so I am thankful for small miracles. The doctor was kind enough to give me pictures of the stone before and after he cut it in two to remove it. I have a feeling those pictures will cost me more that what I paid to get the vacation photos and I rather like the tropical scenes better than than the stone shots

 

[smith revolver cop]

I get so tired of women, saying the pain was exactly like childbirth.

Yeah, what they pass a baby through is designed to open and stretch... no such anatomy when you're passing a stone!!!

 

[Hunt200]

I had 8 so far in my life time, matter of fact, I have one in me right now. NOT FUN!

 

[zercool]

Had one nearly two years ago. 9x7mm. Two weeks of FloMax to try and pass it with no success, first surgery for lithotripsy and a stent for a week, passed about a third of it. Two weeks after that, another surgery for laser lithotripsy and another stent for a week, passed about another third. The remaining third has re-formed and is still rattling around in there. I've gotten a few twinges from it now and then and have already warned the wife that I'll probably be doing the surgery thing again sometime in the not-too-distant future.

You definitely have my sympathy.

 

[Rule3]

I, thank goodness, have never experienced one. My wife works for a Urologist and they sometimes can destroy them by Ultrasound. I believe they have a traveling "bus" like a Blood Mobile that goes around to different Drs office and get them pulverized.

 

[jframe]

Most of you guys were at least lucky enough to have someone else remove your stent. I had to remove my own. The doc said it was ok to do, so at EXACTLY midnight on the day that I could get it out, I did. With my faithfull Shih Tzu companion, Ollie, by my side, I proceeded to remove the tape. That was an experience in and of itself. When I finally pulled it all the way out, I was stunned at exactly how LONG and THICK this tube was. I hope I never again have to go through that; they don't make drugs good enough to have to stand that amount of pain again.

 

[hsguy]

Timely thread, I had surgery on April's Fools day to remove a stone and had a stent placed. I went in today to have the sent removed which I was dreading, but it was a quick, simple procedure with minimal discomfort. This was my first kidney stone and except for the sheer novelty of it all it is not an experience I recommend. Glad to be done with it all. Off to get another glass of water.

 

[wbraswell]

GKC, you mean they didn't put you under to get that stint out? They did for mine. I wish I could have passed my stones, they were waaay too large. One in my kidney, an inch in diameter, and one between my kidney and bladder that was shaped like a banana, over an inch long. Took 3 procedures to get 2 stones. One surgery, one lithotripsy, one laser. Some of you may think that bloody urine is scarey. Not even close. Wait till you stand in front of the pot and your urine looks like blood! No light passing through the stream at all. You wonder, will it stop? am I going to bleed to death right here? I also notice that when you go to an ER and tell them you have kidney stone pain, you don't spend long in the waiting room, unless they've had a bus wreck. Sorry if my post was too graphic. It wasn't a fun time in my life.

 

[Lizardman_u]

Well they took the little man's hammer away and gave him an eviction (the stent came out yesterday; a simple here bite on this and it'll be just a second).

The stent was over a foot long, I felt like dancing a jig this morning I felt so so good.

For those of you with the stones you have my prayers; for those of you without stones you have my prayers that you never experience them.

Dave

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

Still not feeling great and not looking forward to the return visit to remove the stent.

You probably shouldn't worry about it. Mine was removed with only a local topical (no injection), and it was nothing. If I recall correctly, it was a Navy captain (= long experience) who did it, but suspect that it's pretty simple, and would have been done just as well by any of the several other urologists there.