For me, pissing the stone out has been a non-event. The pain is from those little fuckers getting stuck in the little tube between the kidney and bladder. That's the "I want to fucking die" pain.
Gout. The red swollen big toe hurts like hell, but you can still hobble around and laugh about it. However, the pissing of red hot needles is not, in any way, laughable...
When I had my kidney stone a few years ago, pissing it out was a day at the park compared to the agony of having the thing trying to get out of my kidney for a couple days.
As he lay in the hospital bed, my Pop said "Son, it's like someone took a sledge and swung it up into my balls." We talked for awhile, and as I was leaving, he announced: "Oh, by the way - they tell me it's hereditary."
I had one about 30 years ago. Woke me up in the middle of the night and I was sure it was appendicitis. Felt like it was impaled on a survival knife. ER gave me some serious painkillers & sent me home. Urologist gave me two options, one was to stick an instrument up my pee-hole, the other was an ultrasound treatment called "Lithotripsy". They had to do it twice, but I couldn't imagine the pee-hole procedure. Now I have some idea what giving birth is like, but this has to be even worse.
I have had 10-12 lithotripsies done. I have passed several stones as big as 6mm. I passed one that was about 3mm this past February. No problem. But I had a 10mm stone caught just inside the kidney, that nearly made me want to die. They gave me some Demerol, IV, it didn't touch it. Then they gave me 10mg of morphine, IV. I ended up getting 10mg two more times, IV, before the pain was even bearable. And I have had a couple of nurses who told me that they have had babies and kidney stones,and they would rather have a baby than have a kidney stone. Now, I only get them about once a year, at least the kind that send me to the hospital. I pass one every few months, that I hardly feel. None of them are much fun, even the ones that I don't feel. Because they make me feel sick for a week or so, until it finally passes. I have stage 3 kidney disease due to so many stones. It doesn't mean much,other than that I must keep up on bloodwork, every few months.
I had a bunch of them that they used to blast with ultrasound. One got stuck in the ureter so the doc had to go up there and blast it. Now they just get stuck in the dick and there's some pain but I know I'll be passing it.
For me, pissing the stone out has been a non-event. The pain is from those little fuckers getting stuck in the little tube between the kidney and bladder. That's the "I want to fucking die" pain.
ReplyDeleteGout. The red swollen big toe hurts like hell, but you can still hobble around and laugh about it. However, the pissing of red hot needles is not, in any way, laughable...
ReplyDeleteWhen I had my kidney stone a few years ago, pissing it out was a day at the park compared to the agony of having the thing trying to get out of my kidney for a couple days.
ReplyDeleteBeen there, don't want the t-shirt
ReplyDeleteAs he lay in the hospital bed, my Pop said "Son, it's like someone took a sledge and swung it up into my balls." We talked for awhile, and as I was leaving, he announced: "Oh, by the way - they tell me it's hereditary."
ReplyDeleteExplains why my mother said she'd rather give birth than pass another stone.
ReplyDeleteI had one about 30 years ago. Woke me up in the middle of the night and I was sure it was appendicitis. Felt like it was impaled on a survival knife. ER gave me some serious painkillers & sent me home. Urologist gave me two options, one was to stick an instrument up my pee-hole, the other was an ultrasound treatment called "Lithotripsy". They had to do it twice, but I couldn't imagine the pee-hole procedure.
ReplyDeleteNow I have some idea what giving birth is like, but this has to be even worse.
I have had 10-12 lithotripsies done. I have passed several stones as big as 6mm. I passed one that was about 3mm this past February. No problem. But I had a 10mm stone caught just inside the kidney, that nearly made me want to die. They gave me some Demerol, IV, it didn't touch it. Then they gave me 10mg of morphine, IV. I ended up getting 10mg two more times, IV, before the pain was even bearable.
DeleteAnd I have had a couple of nurses who told me that they have had babies and kidney stones,and they would rather have a baby than have a kidney stone. Now, I only get them about once a year, at least the kind that send me to the hospital. I pass one every few months, that I hardly feel. None of them are much fun, even the ones that I don't feel. Because they make me feel sick for a week or so, until it finally passes. I have stage 3 kidney disease due to so many stones. It doesn't mean much,other than that I must keep up on bloodwork, every few months.
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Never had the pleasure...
ReplyDeleteI had a bunch of them that they used to blast with ultrasound. One got stuck in the ureter so the doc had to go up there and blast it. Now they just get stuck in the dick and there's some pain but I know I'll be passing it.
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