Kidney stones

[BLOCK F]

My boy has just got over a kidney stone.He is 20 and apparently it is rare in someone of that age.
He had it for about 4 weeks before passing it............painful but in the end it was quick he said...a 6mm pebble!!
As others have said,pain comes and goes; you should be given painkillers and possibly antibiotics to prevent infection.Drink gallons of water to push it down the ureter into the bladder,then urethra and out into the outside world.
My lad was treated in Tokyo as he is over there for 6 months and they took scans /x-rays to locate it and see how it had moved(not sure NhS will do that tho'!).The doc told him to keep it and bring it to be analysed and they will tell you the likely cause of it.........diet or whatever.,so try not to pee it down the urinal!!He gets his results next Monday!
Good luck and persevere with the fluids!If that doesn't work,they may have to blast it!

 

[Curly5194]

Had them twice in my short life (okay I'm 44). Had them two years ago and then 8 years previous to that. Both times I was hospitalised and had them removed via my "old man". The last time was worst as I had a blood infection so they couldn't operate straight away and I had a stent fitted up the "old man" for 6 weeks and it was bloody awful. I've now been told my body creates too much calcium and I will be prone to this every few years until I die. Great. And yes it is the worst pain I have ever felt. And when I visited the doctor I actually vomited in his waste paper basket, so he knew I wasn't faking it! Hahaha. My sympathies if you are currently suffering.

 

[R. Slicker]

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Yer gonna need a tube up your knob

 

[Lush]

This thread is making childbirth sound like a breeze.

Do women get kidney stones? And if not, why not?

 

[tedebear]

Oh dear me - do not Google (images) kidney stones...

I nearly fell off my chair in horror.....

 

[skipper734]

It doesn't need to be stones, same pain for infection. At the back and deep in your pelvis, stops you thinking of anything else.
If you have been having peeing problems, might be the prostate involved. In which case my lad, it's the digit up the rectum and camera down your japs eye for you.

 

[Kazenga <3]

Faaaack. Absolutely shitting myself that I'll get this one day now.

 

[DanielT]

Kazenga: That's not the way they come out!

 

[Kazenga <3]

Kazenga: That's not the way they come out!

Don't. I've just googled the images and dry retched for 20 seconds solid.

 

[SeagullinExile]

Any NSC'ers had them? Can anyone give any information about them from their own experiences with them?
I have been suffering from intermittent lower right abdominal pains both at the front and back of my body for a good week now although I did get 2 days without any pains (yesterday and the day before) which was great but then it hit back big style this morning at 1am. A and E thought it was just an infection and prescribed me antibiotics, the Dr isn't totally sure what it is although suggests it may be kidney stones.
Anyway I shall stop blabbing on and just ask you good folk for any info/help!

Prob just an infection mate. I was with a work colleague when he collapsed with kidney stones, it wasn't a pretty site i can tell ya! The way he was screaming, i honestly thought he was a gonna! Apparently it is the 2nd most painfull condition a human can have...behind child birth!

 

[Acker79]

I've had tonsil stones.

 

[Surrey_Albion]

I presume you've had that done to know what it feels like?

Its something I like to do at weekends lol

 

[JBizzleBeard]

Prob just an infection mate. I was with a work colleague when he collapsed with kidney stones, it wasn't a pretty site i can tell ya! The way he was screaming, i honestly thought he was a gonna! Apparently it is the 2nd most painfull condition a human can have...behind child birth!

But I had my urine sample test results back and they found nothing. I've had yet another longish stretch of not feeling any pains the last day or so, I hope its not saving it up for tomorrow coz I am not missing a game at the Amex if I can help it!

 

[fruitnveg]

Pretty much as has been stated. Is really, really, really painful. Usually puts and keeps you in bed while you retch and vomit for the best part of a day, in my experience. It is thoroughly exhausting and not very plesant at all.

I'm on my second bout at the grand old age of 23 (yes, i'm an idiot). The first went undiagnosed for a year and i had to have it removed.

At the moment i'm on painkillers, diclophenac (sic) sodium which has done a marvellous job of masking the pain. Due for a scan to locate the Barsteward.

 

[thony]

I would like to point out that it's not ALWAYS as painful as everyone else is saying. I've had to go to hospital for kidney stones to be shattered (= lithotripsy if you want to google it) twice in my lifetime - the first was using ultrasound (when I was put to sleep and apparently lowered into a vat of water for it) and the second time using laser (where I just lay there conscious while it click-click-clicked away for several minutes). I'm one of the lucky ones to not have had any meaningful level of pain with it - I was just alerted by blood in my urine each of the two times. I went straight to the doctor, who tested for proteinurea (ie, protein in the urine, which is a classic indicator of kidney stones), and booked be an appointment for xray when that was confirmed.
As mentioned above, they can only shatter stones if they're above a certain size. I still have a small fragment (too small for lithotripsy) so I have yearly xrays to check how they're doing.

In short, my suggestion is that you've done the right thing to go to the doctor for tests, and if he hasn't found evidence of proteinurea and doesn't think it's kidney stones, I'd trust him on that. If he suspected stones, I'm sure he'd get you straight in for xray (since if you're in pain you become a top priority and should get into xray the same day).

 

[portslade seagull]

My son was 1st diagnosed after being taken ill at the Swindon play-off game many years ago. He has since had four operations two each kidney to remove stones which have been as big as golf balls the surgeon showed my wife and myself before sending them off for biopsys. he eventually had his right kidney removed this year because the damage caused by the stones was to great. The probable cause is the local water due to its hardness and now its filtered or bottled only and he has to eat food with no salt. When he was bad he was really ill sickness cramps passing blood not good... so best to insist the doctors deal asap

 

[Flumpyj]

Really feel for you m8.Ive had about 6 episodes of kidney stones over the past 10 years, 6 weeks ago was the latest,A & E at 6in the morning,given morphine and wait,I normally end up peeing them out,but have had the camera up the Japs eye!!!!!!!!!for them to have a look.Mine too are are jagged cystal shapes.Ive been told I produce too much uric acid and so make stones and have now been put on allopurinol to help,also now have gout,which can be just as bad.So much fun getting older!!

 

[JBizzleBeard]

I would like to point out that it's not ALWAYS as painful as everyone else is saying. I've had to go to hospital for kidney stones to be shattered (= lithotripsy if you want to google it) twice in my lifetime - the first was using ultrasound (when I was put to sleep and apparently lowered into a vat of water for it) and the second time using laser (where I just lay there conscious while it click-click-clicked away for several minutes). I'm one of the lucky ones to not have had any meaningful level of pain with it - I was just alerted by blood in my urine each of the two times. I went straight to the doctor, who tested for proteinurea (ie, protein in the urine, which is a classic indicator of kidney stones), and booked be an appointment for xray when that was confirmed.
As mentioned above, they can only shatter stones if they're above a certain size. I still have a small fragment (too small for lithotripsy) so I have yearly xrays to check how they're doing.

In short, my suggestion is that you've done the right thing to go to the doctor for tests, and if he hasn't found evidence of proteinurea and doesn't think it's kidney stones, I'd trust him on that. If he suspected stones, I'm sure he'd get you straight in for xray (since if you're in pain you become a top priority and should get into xray the same day).

Hmmm that's an interesting one thony. I think I might give my doc a call to discuss the urine sample test results as they came back fine, would they have checked for protein do you think or just for an infection?

 

[glasfryn]

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Yer gonna need a tube up your knob

yep thats the way they took mine out and it is very painful when they take the tube out until you hear the bloke in the next bed saying they put his tube in without painkillers
that my friends made everyone wince

 

[Shanker45]

Damn that's quick. Big willy wally?

Took me about 5 weeks ....oh well size isn't everything!