A guy I know was having similar problems a few years ago and he sent me some pix... scary stuff... these are not the ones he sent me, but they are similar.

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Aiee. Those look like shrapnel.

I had kidney stones a few times. Not fun at all.

Once, my wife drove me to the ER at 2am, I puked in the flowerbed of the ER parking lot before I could make it inside.

I was pumped full of saline and intravenous Buscopan to relieve the cramps. The stones passed within the hour, and I was back at work in the morning.

Good luck to you.

Please realize I am not trying to add to your .



I ask about the gout because it can damage your kidneys and not all renal calculi are calcium. Uric acid crystals are what comes to my mind when the subject of you and kidney stones is batted about. I have seen tiny little ones I pulled out of a joint that looked like ground glass under the right kind of light, I shudder to think what a wad of them would feel like stuck between my kidney and bladder, see yellow crystalline one above. Probably enough to cause you vomit if you breathe the wrong way.

Brother take your dope, say your prayers, drink lots of water, maybe cherry juice wouldn't hurt.

Thanks for the thought - I guess we'll find out when I capture a stone

So, on a related but whiny subject, is anyone's spouse particularly good or bad at what used to be called "invalid cookery"? My wife is ordinarily a decent cook, but she has really dropped the ball this time. When she's sick, I make chicken stock then feed her all the classic invalid soups - chicken broth, chicken noodle soup, chicken rice soup.

So on Friday, she says
- How about some canned soup.
- Ugh, I'd rather have ramen soup.
- You're having this problem because of too much salt.
- No I'm not and do you know how much sodium there is in canned soup?
- You're not going to have any salt from now on.

So I get a bowl of boiled water and plain ramen noodles, no seasoning. Only had two bites.

Saturday, "feeding the patient" was somehow overlooked. I wasn't much hungry anyway.

Sunday morning, she notices how much weight I've been losing, and starts making chicken broth. What with one thing and another, the chicken rice soup arrives in the late afternoon. It is an oil slick. She didn't defat the stock. Okay, two spoonfuls of that.

In 3 days I think I've eaten 2 peaches, 1 slice of pizza, some grapes, and some nuts. Thursday I was 195 lb, today I am 190 lb.

A little fasting never hurt, but I would hate to be a long term invalid in my house.

Ultrasound. Right kidney swollen. Left normal. Bladder is filling. No stones seen. Radiologist (turns out he is the nephew of one of my dad's best friends - I probably met him when we were little kids) says swollen kidney suggests that it had been blocked, he doesnt know if stone has completely passed or is in ureter. GP says if stone were still in ureter, I wouldn't be feeling better. I'm on antibiotics for the fever and otherwise wait-and-see.

We are presently on a low fat diet because our neighbor has high cholesteral. Mine is fine, I'm tested everytime I give blood...

As I am sure they told you, stones often aren't visible with an ultrasound. An IVP (you are IV'd with glow-in-th-dark stuff & x-ray'd) is sometimes more accurate.

I had a blocked kidney after a lithotripsy to break up stones. Now THAT was fun. Very, very painful. Solved with 5 days of Demerol & a stent for a week after. With a string hanging out for removal.

Ian

glad to hear you are better!

So far. And pounding down the cherry juice, you betcha.

I passed a kidney stone this weekend. With no particular discomfort. Should I take it to my doctor - will the stone reveal what is causing my kidney stones? Or should I make an earring from it?

Holy schit! Nearly 3 mos...is that normal? Did you have to piss thru a strainer the whole time?

On a related note...my brother (dentist) has a patient swallow a crown...rather than opting for a redeaux...has the guy chop his schit for 3 weeks till it comes out.
Kinda don't think I'd want that in my mouth.

No, I'd forgotten all about the kidney stone pain of two months ago. Last week, I had another episode of kidney stone-like discomfort, but brief and mild. Then a few days later, I passed this stone.

Appendix is lower left front.....and when yer in yer 50s you wait in the ER for hours until it bursts....

then you picked the wrong ER...

It had valet parking with hot and cold running homeless....

How do you "forget" a kidney stone?

Drink beer. It'll flow.
My assembly guy passed a pea-sized kidney stone a few years back. He was laid up it bed for about a week with it.
it was...huge...and jagged.:eek:

Edit: wow... didn't see how long ago this was started!