Kidney stone attacks can involve hours of sheer hell. But, once you overcome an attack, you can walk tall.
Kidney stones - you either love them or hate them.…
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26 - Gavin
I woke up last night at 4:30 by the worst pain I ever imagine. I stood up and immediately fell over from the pain. 15 min later I was in the car to the ER vomiting uncontrollably on my floor mats.
Got to the ER and spent one hour on a bathroom floor sweating,shaking,and vomiting from the pain until finally they brought me a IV pain med. They had forgotten to give me my pain relief meds!!!
Anyway that was the worst hour of my life period. I thought tooth aches were bad but they are a cake walk compared to this.
It was a 2mm stone and I'm not sure if I have passed it yet but the pain is gone for now. I just hope I don't endure that level of pain ever again. Pain meds seem to be keeping it at bay.
27 - Frank
I have passed three stones over the past five years. The first at 2.5mm, the second at 4mm and the third at just over 1mm.
The pain was severe with all three stones, but I have to say that the size of the stone seemed relevant to the pain.
On the last stone, I tried the JumpandBump method (www.jumpandbump.com)and it seemed to work well. It was worth the read. If nothing else, it took my mind off of the pain.
I currently have two stones developing in my left kidney, one that is 3mm and one that is 5mm. I must be one of the lucky ones!!!
I understand from my Urologist that there is a 75% chance of passing a 5mm stone. Boy, am I looking forward to that! He called them small! I wanted to ask him if he had ever driven a Volkswagen through a garden hose, because that's what I envision a 5mm stone to be like. I hope to be close to some morphine on that day! He also told me that I may never be affected by these two stones that they could stay in my kidney and never affect me. I have only known about them for about five hours now and I am ready to have my kidney removed so that I don't have to wonder when/if they are going to affect me.
28 - Frank
One note that I forgot to mention, is that my urologist prescribed Flomax during my last stone and I passed it the sameday as the pain started. It really seemed to work as the previous two stones took more than a week to pass.
29 - David
I had 39 hours of "Labor" and finally I passed my first (hopefully only) kidney stone. I have had broken bones, a ruptured disc, and a punctured lung, nothing even compares to this pain. I will give you this advice...if you are throwing up (I did multiple times) get your butt into the ER. They will give you anti-nausea medicine and morphine to work through this. They will keep the fluids in you to pass your stone. I past my stone at 7:00 AM.
I have a question thought if someone could give me advice. It is 12 hours later and I am having deep soreness in the kidney that had the stone. Is this normal?
30 - Silas Kain
Having been through three kidney stone ordeals in my life I can testify that there is ONE good thing about having them.
MORPHINE.
31 - STM
Ha! So Mark, we do have something in common :)
I have my own horror stories and I won't repeat all of them here, except to say that the last time, people noticed I was turning green just before I collapsed - about 20 minutes after drinking a Cranberry juice (which might have been coincidence).
That stone got stuck halfway between kidney and bladder and was the size of 9mm bullet. It had to be put back into my kidney so they could destroy it with ultrasound a week later.
I just felt like I needed to pee for a week ... endless niggling agony.
What a nightmare.
32 - Neale
Talk about been able to walk tall after enduring a kidney stone attack. When I had my first attack I had no idea what was happening. No analgesics seemed to help, I may as well have been eating candy for all the good they did, but a very hot bath gave some temporary relief. I was 5 hours into the attack before my neighbour drove me to the hospital. By this stage I was grey-green and sweating like an eskimo taking a vacation on the equator. Now here's the part even I can't believe, I then WALKED on my own two feet into the ER, how I managed that I'll never know. Then, bliss, oh joyful bliss; IV morphine until the stone was passed some 8 hours later. Before this all happened I thought of myself as a total wuss when it came to pain, now I know I could walk up to Mike Tyson and tell him what a big, dumb, ugly sissy he is, because I know that he could never lay down as much hurt on me as a kidney stone attack. Everyone that endures a kidney stone attack should be a heroism medal. It it fails to alter your perspective on life, then you have something much more seriously wrong with you than kidney stones.
33 - Madison
Just a few days ago I was in the ER dealing with severe abdominal pain. Doctors couldn't find out what it was. I had a scope done, ct scans done, many ultra sounds done. Boy it was crazy. The hospital finally admitted me into the hospital. The doctors never gave me any pain medicine for the pain I was having. After being admitted I started peeing blood and having severe pain in my bladder. Still, no matter how many times I asked for pain killers, no one would give them to me. Two days after the terrible pain I passed very little bits and pieces of stones. Turns out that I did have a stone, but it shattered on its own and today I'm still passing little pieces of it. Goodness gracious this is painful.