Just wanted to know your experiences. E.g. treatment, follow-up, pain after it had passed, etc etc.
2006-08-29 03:17:55 · 7 answers · asked by Alfa Female 4 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
Yes... I was woken up at 4am one morning by the most excrutiating pain I've ever experienced - in my half-sleepy state I seriously thought I was going to die! My wife turned over and mumbled "you've got a kidney stone" (her dad had one so she knew what it was like) and tried to go back to sleep!!
I was taken by ambulance to hospital and given a morphine injection to kill the pain. Man... that morphine... I felt no pain... nothing... I was as high as a kite... they could've cut both my legs off and sewn them to my ears and I wouldn't have cared!!
Then onto a hospital ward. Basically it was intended that I should have an x-ray to find where the stone was so they could decide whether to zap it with ultra-sound (which shatters it so the pieces pass out with the urine) or whether it would have to be removed by surgery. In the meantime I was told to drink plenty of fluids - and they made sure I drank GALLONS!!. But it worked because after about 12 hours I took a pee... there was a searing pain... and then... it was GONE... the stone passed on it's own!
OR at least I thought it had... turned out that the stone was either two stones or that it had broken in half because two weeks to the day later I had an exact repeat peformance... and again the stone passed on it's own!
Follow up: I still drink at least 2 litres of fluid a day to keep my kidneys well flushed... and so far no more kidney stone!
2006-08-29 03:19:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-09-21 22:11:44 · answer #2 · answered by Garry 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-24 22:36:26 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, i have had kidney stones 20+ 3 of them i passed on my own and the others i had surgery where they go up and break them up so you can pass them easily. It is very painful to pass them.
If stones are too big to pass from the kidney into the ureter, you may have no symptoms or, at most, occational mild pain as small pieces break off and are carried down the ureter. The most common symptom of troublesome kidney stones is called colic. This is a stabbing pain that tends to come in waves, often a few minutes apart. Colic can be caused by disorders in various parts of the body, including gallstones and intestinal obstruction. Typically, it makes you "double up" with pain. Kidney pain of this type, called renal colic, can occur when a stone passes from the kidney down one of the ureters. It will subside whenever the stone stops moving or is discharged in the urine. The pain almost always occurs on one side of your body at a time, but if you have stones in both kidneys, a subsequent attack may be on the other side.
Renal colic is usually felt first in the back, just below the ribs on either side of the spinal column. Over a period of hours or days, the pain follows the course of the stone as it travels along the ureter, around to the front of the body, and down towards the groin. It may make you feel nauseous, and there may be traces of blood in your urine. After the stone reaches your bladder, it will probably pass through the remainder of the urinary tract with little or no pain.
There is no satisfactory medical treatment for kidney stones that do not pass of their own accord. However, if your body forms stones made of uric acid because you have a metabolic disorder, your physician may prescribe drugs that can prevent stones from forming in some cases. If a stone causes a blockage in the lower third of your ureter, it can sometimes be removed by manipulation during cystoscopy, using specially designed instrument through the cystoscope, into the bladder, and up into the ureter where the stone is trapped. When the instrument is withdrawn, the stone will probably come with it. If this procedure cannot be done, a major abdominal operation may be done. Just make sure you drink plenty of water to keep your kidneys flushed.
2006-08-29 04:05:17 · answer #4 · answered by ~*á?¦Kileaá?¦*~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I couldn't just sit around and do nothing like my doctors suggested.
They didn't want me to do anything or to take herbs or herbal remedies, but I had to try something - they just wanted me to do dialysis!
This program allowed me to take control of my health. I went from Stage 4 to Stage 3 kidney disease.
It was easy to do and my BUN, creatinine and anemia are all in better ranges.
Reversing Your Kidney Disease?
2016-05-15 02:44:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-03-09 09:10:10 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-08-29 03:19:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋