Anyone have kidney stones?

I’ve had kidney stones for 30 years. Have passed dozens and had some removed. To avoid them you have to drink lots and lots of water daily and modify your diet. Your urologist can advise you on this. When you have your first one you will likely have another within a couple years or you may have them repeatedly. Most excruciating pain imaginable.

 

I’m pretty sure mine are from drinking too much 5 hour energy. I’ve passed dozens but never been to the hospital for them. My wife hates me because they aren’t really painful to me for some reason.

 

I've had mild and major cases... What gets me is my dr. gave me a list of what to eat and not eat, to prevent them. I mostly ate the items that were on the "Ok to eat" list and most of the "Don't eat" list, I didn't eat. Can win for losing...

 

Medullary sponge kidney. Slight congenital defect in one or both kidneys, usually manifests in adulthood. Yep. My first stone at 25, second at 47, now a third at 64. The first 2 I could attribute to stress and not enough fluids (water), but this one has me stumped. Been looking after myself for most of those almost 40 uyears, but whoopee!.

Colic attack 3 days ago. Ultrasound sees 9mm stone in my right kidney (the usual suspect), but yesterday I pissed out a 6mm x 2mm that looks suspiciously like an adult Alien head. I thought aliens only did anal probes.

 

For scale, imagine that 2mm wide Alien passing through a 1mm wide passage, it felt like the pointy bits were leading the way.

 

Ultrasound says there's 6 in the right! Anyone need a kidney donation? As is, no refunds.

 

Buck Rogers and his little laser doing surgery tomorrow.

 

Depends on your blood type lol. I'm trying to get a transplant.

 

Quick day surgery yesterday. In and out in 3 hours, but recovery at home. Stent, but no catheter at home. I'm past the pissing razor blades and blood phase, but with the stent providing an unobstructed pathway from bladder to kidney there's a 2x4 smack across the back every piss. Hydro shock in the body. 10 seconds of my Mother's day attack. I'll live with it.

 

I’ve been battling with kidney stones for years, I think I’ve passed 5 and had 1 lithotripsy up until a few weeks ago. I started having left flank pain, went to the Er, confirmed I had one stuck in my urerter that was 6x7 mm.. it wasn’t blocking so the choice was made to try and let me pass it... fast forward a week of intermittent pain, now I’m having pain on the right side... back to the ER in extreme pain on both sides, a 6x5 mm stone is blocking My right side, both kidneys are now blocked and I’m going into kidney failure early stages... worst prolonged pain I’ve ever experienced, they set me up for emergency surgery and put stents in on both sides so that my kidneys could start working properly again... The surgery was successful, they kept me for another day with two stents in plus a catheter. My kidney function returned to normal pretty quick, catheter was removed and I was allowed to go home. I had a follow up procedure Thursday where they removed around 12 stones from my kidneys and both stones blocking my urerters. And now I only have one stent that will come out in a few weeks.


my last 4-6 weeks have been miserable... can’t wait for some normalcy soon. We cancelled our annual trip to maine, but were offered by the cabin owner to swap weeks so we are going to maine the first week of October.


kidney stones suck

 

I'm 62 and have had stones off and on since I was 12. I have never experienced pain on that level. I have had stents before and lithotripsy several times. Largest stone I passed was a 9.
I believe that 9 was on the Richter scale.

 

I’ve had kidney stones for 30+ years. Some years I’ve passed 2 to 4 stones a year. Some excruciating pain some very mild. I’ve had surgery and stents and lithotripsy. I’ve now gone 3 years without a stone. Here’s some of what I’ve done to avoid passing stones.
First drink lots of water daily. I know everyone is told that but most don’t drink enough water. If you drink water by the glass you have no idea how much you’re actually drinking. What I did is get a couple of 20oz water bottles or flasks. I fill the bottle 3 to 4 times a day. I found I wasn’t drinking nearly that much water when I was drinking by the glass. The idea of the water is not to pass the stone (unless you are actually having a stone attack), the purpose is to dilute your urine so the chemicals in your body that form stones are too diluted for stones to form.
I also drink a cup to 2 cups of coffee every morning. Old thinking was coffee and tea caused kidney stones. Recent studies have shown that coffee and tea (in moderation) actually are good for you and have a preventative effect on stones. I also drink a can of ginger ale everyday. Your urine should be pale or almost clear all day. Yes I’m peeing all day long.
I also cut back on alcohol. I didn’t have a problem with alcohol but I know it is a diuretic and has the opposite effect on diluting your urine. I love my wine (have a wine room/cellar full of wine). I cut back to a max of a bottle a week, usually split between wife or friend and I. I also like fine whiskey’s but now maybe glass or 2 max every 2 weeks or so.
I also take calcium citrate (which is over the counter) daily which my urologist advised me to take. It helps prevent the formation of calcium and calcium oxalate stones which are the most common.
Diet is also important but that is a lengthy and somewhat complex discussion. Need to talk to your urologist about that.
But bottom line drink drink drink water and keep track of exactly the number of once’s of liquid you drink every day.

 

Passed 8 yesterday! I don’t know why but they don’t really bother me. This one was the largest at 1/4”.
I’ve never been to the doctor over them.

 

have had them for years since I was 11. I remember freaking out my grade school buds when going in those trough style units they had back in the day and they would see me urinating bright red.

the worse part is going to the ER when the pain becomes unbearable and they think you're drug seeking. so they let you wait ... and wait .... and wait .... hoping you'll get tired of waiting and just go away and find your fix somewhere else. until I ask them for the address for the nearest ER because they're so busy (i know they're not) and they finally run their procedures and see 7mm+ on the scan. then they still have the nerve to ask me what kind of stone I have as if the the image of the bright stone in the ureter isn't enough to prove I'm not faking it. I ask if they have a lithotripter on site and of course the answer is always no. some clinicians really don't get that some people with stones go to ER because there is no other choice. if Tylenol worked, I would not visit an ER.

low salt, low protein, gallon of water a day, etc. etc. and at the end of the day they come back. luckily not as frequently as the years go by. I still remember surviving on watermelon only for most of a year because dummy me thought hey it's watermelon. surely this will help. wrong.

 

Had a Lithotripsy procedure which knocked the stone from hell back up in the kidney. Suffered in the hospital for three days with a stent after it was removed via the "basket". Feels real good not to have that pain. X-rays show another one in the lower kidney, and according to the Doc, it should stay there.