Great! As if I don’t have enough to worry about. So now it’s Chinese world domination, collapse of the global financial systems, meteorites, Zombie apocalypse, and…Kidney Stones.
So doc says at a 5cm stone, I’ll pass it with a 93% likelihood. Have been referred to a specialist. Today is better. Peeing more normally and the xray showed it was about to head into the bladder where it can exit. I am still in pain, but medicated and not near as bad now.
I also had a gall bladder stone that was the size of a ping pong ball, but it wasnt quite as painful as the tiny kidney stone. It was removed (as well as the gall bladder itself) with surgery. I wish I would been able to keep the stone as a reminder to lay off the soda.
I’ve had 2 kidney stones. Both were too big to pass, so I’ve had lithotripsy twice. My second one was 8x10mm. After the first one, the PA told me to drink 2 liters of water every day, so I did. 10 years later, I was back at the ER for drugs.
After the second one, they did some tests and decided I had oxalate kidney stones, and now I drink 2 liters of water, and take calcium citrate supplements. It’s only been 3 years since my second stone, so, hopefully the supplements will prevent any more.
Some women who have delivered babies without any pain meds have said that kidney stone pain is considerably worse. I believe them.
Golf balls are 4.268 cm in diameter, there is no way you are passing a 5cm stone without lithotripsy.
I had a “stack of stones” in my left ureter that added up to 1.5 cm and they passed individually over 24-48 hours or so, but none of mine were more than 2-4 mm, were all irregularly shaped and had the texture of pumice. Fun times.
I wish you the best, I would not want anyone to have kidney/bladder stones. Those tubes were not designed to stretch easily.
If you Google pictures of them, there are pictures of kidney stones over 5cm. They aren’t round though. They are weird shapes with irregular spikey protrusions all over them.
It looks like passing one would feel like urinating a gerbil-sized porcupine. OUCH!!!
I’ve had both, but suprisingly the kidney stone was worse for me. Of course the gall bladder stone, being the aize of a ping pong ball, had to be removed via surgery and i was out for that haha.
It’s not just passing them that’s painful (I’ve never passed one). When they move in the kidney and cause blockage, that causes incredible pain and discomfort. I went to bed one night thinking I might be coming down with a cold, and woke up with so much pain, I could barely move. The nausea was terrible. I heaved so hard I broke blood vessels in my face.
I can’t find pics of some of the bizarre ones that came through the lab but once in awhile something really amazing would show up. And if you’ve ever seen the stones that dogs and cats get…ouch, those look even worse, hurts to even think about.
First was in the middle of the night… Excruciating pain and I tried to pee and saw it was dark brownish coloured… Got a shock as I’ve never encountered it before…and the pain… Nothing I’ve ever encountered before… I was just curled up on the floor in a ball before calling my wife who got help from my brother-in-law staying nearby to drive me to the hospital.
It only got better after they jabbed me wih painkillers at the ER… Had to wait till morning before the procedure(using ultrasonic waves to break it up) was done… Had to stay a nite in the hospital and was peeing blood coloured urine for 2 days after that.
Second instance happened on the way to work… Same thing …back to ER… But this time they can’t blast it out due to the location… In the end, a different procedure where they insert a device through the pee hole of my penis to reach the stone and break it up … The post recovery for this is WORSE than the first… I still get the chills recalling the incident….
I had a kidney stone about 3 years ago and it sucked really bad. A couple of very painful days bed where I’d sometimes curl into a ball in absolute pain. I pissed it out eventually but it was one of the worst experiences in my life. Wouldn’t wish KS on my worst enemy.