This one passed through about 8 years ago. Pales in size to what you had I imagine.

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I've been sonic blasted twice, pissed blood and gravel for few weeks. But a nurse told me to drink lemonade every day to break up the calcium. Been 7 years since last stone, not one twinge. Give it a try .24oz for breakfast every mornin.

Some of the worst pain I've had. Last time I was in Home Depot and it hit ( hard)....barely made it back to the restroom, passed out in the stall, and that's where they found me....had to do the blast thing too.

Sorry you went through that....I was so fortunate to get a positive virus test on the 23rd, right as family coming into town....( fully vaccinated, boosted, whatever)....102+ temp and my damn head was trying to explode.

Haven't had a stone in about 6 years....my immediate fix is non stop Heineken and pain killers until it gets too bad....hope you're better ( sounds like yours was worse than mine)...unbelievable pain..

I've had one at Christmas 6-7 years ago and it was the worst pain I've ever felt. I vomited in pain several times while waiting for a doctor at the hospital. Later they blasted it and put a tube in to widen the passage and I could pee it out. After like a week or so the tube were removed again and pain/bleeding while peeing for several days after. I never want to do all that shit again.

I've had 2 of them, horrible experiences. Ended up in the hospital both times. They could see the stones with a CT scan but were unable to pinpoint exactly where they were at on an X-ray so blasting them via lipotrypsy wasn't an option. I had to be put under and a scope was run up through my man hose so the Dr could find them. He then ran a tiny laser in and blasted them away like playing Asteroids. Then it was crane-claw time, small trap basket inserted to gather the pieces. After that, a Stent hose was put in to keep the swelling from closing things up and to allow pee to go through. Lost bladder control for a few days until things settled down. Stent was removed about a week later. Fortunately the removal doesn't hurt, just feel weird as the pull the tiny 2 foot hose out. Took about a month before things got back to normal.

I hope and pray I never get another one and I hope those of you who have had them never get one again either.

Diet is important. Haven't had one since I quit eating white-rice a few years back. And most dairy too.

I never got a definitive " wtf causes this" ...they told me to avoid soda....stopped cold turkey after first episode.....still hit me later.

Makes me nervous even talking about it...we all know...starts like someone is stabbing you in your lower back...then game on......shit

I used to work with a guy that had some kind of medical condition that caused him to get kidney stones constantly, it happened so often that he would come in to work and be in the bathroom in agony peeing thru a screen passing them. He would show me the stones when he finally passed them and it would send a chill down my spine!

One of the main side effects of the seizure medications they just started me on is kidney stones so I’m trying to drink lots of water, Just thinking about it makes me feel like I’m whistling past a graveyard!

Mine was from tea. Drank liters of tea for a few days in July (back around 2005) while shoveling dirt. Thought something was up when my pee was almost black. Struck me on the morning of July 4th. Went to the doctor to confirm what I suspected. They gave me morphine and a month to pass it, never did. They broke it up with soundwaves. The pieces got stuck. 4 or 5 trips to the ER. Finally told them to go in and remove it in October. So I suffered with one for over 3 months. Mine was calcium oxalate. Tea and many other foods and drinks are high in oxalates. Read this book and never had another one:

https://www.amazon.com/More-Kidney-Stones-Prevention-Treatment/dp/0471739294/ref=sr_1_6

I tried drinking lemon juice to dissolve mine. My kidney was so blocked that the juice came back out the same way it went in a few hours later.

Sorry to hear. I hope you are on the mend now.

LTG : )

I’ve had ‘em twice. The first one they had to go in and blast. I’ll spare the details. The second one I was lucky to pass thanks to some medication. Hurts like nothing else.

This is the nasty little bastard that popped out.

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So you guys save these things?!

I sure didn’t save mine, but had to take a picture or nobody would believe me!

Would of made a nice necklace! I'm kidding, have had 6 or 7 attacks , 2 blasts, so I know it's not funny at all.

I had one about 10 years ago. I drank over 200 ounces of diet soda a day for years and never have had another diet soda or even thought of having one since that dreaded day. I was told there are basically 8 general reasons for kidney stones. The chemical in diet soda was 1 of the 8. Pain will change you on a dime. Kidney stones suck!

Passed one tonight, was small.

Was peeing blood here and there for 2
Weeks but it never hurt thank goodness. I’ve had some doozys but it has been several years.

What truly sucks is nobody really seems to have any idea what causes it or how to stop it.

There’s no medicine.

Every recommendation seems to contradict every other one. It’s confounding.

I had them once or twice a year for about 10 years it was horrible. Then it just kind of stopped. I have no idea why.

After horrible lower back pain, vomiting, diarrhea , being balled up on the floor for a couple hours, feeling like I had to pee every 3 mins but dribbles came out that felt like razor blades. I passed my stone with a bit of blood in the toilet at the hospital. Horrific experience! I feel for all you guys, I’ve been there. I wouldn’t wish it alon anybody!
Not that it matters, but I was 25 at the time. I just hope it doesn’t happen again.

I ended up in the emergency room on Christmas morning in 2019.

Never had one before so I wasn't sure what the excruciating pain was in my side that started in the middle of the night. After 5 or so hours of enduring the pain, I had my wife call the paramedics for an ambulance ride to the hospital. Doctor immediately knew what it was and put me on morphine.

CT scan showed it was too small for any invasive treatment so they sent me home with pain meds until I was able to pass it. The pain disappeared about a week later so I must have passed it at some point. But I had to stay on meds that entire time to keep the pain in check.

The pain was like nothing I've ever felt in my life. Definitely not fun. When I say "I feel your pain", I mean it!

I've had 3 episodes in my life.They were all exactly 9 years apart.
emergency room visit every 9 years to tell me what i feared. Another stone.
Doc said quit drinking a 12 pack of colored soda every day for starters.
Haven't drank Coke or Dr. Pepper since.
I would rather slam my dick in the sliding glass door than go thru that pain again.
It feels like a football being pushed thru a garden hose inside of you

Passed 3 stones in hospital over the years . Not fun pulling out cathider is the worst . Passed a few at home as well then bought some stone breaker on amazon . Take it a few days every 2 or 3 months apart . No stones any more thank the Peruvians

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Non vax and non mask and I’m going through it as I type…this shit is merciless

Just had the lipto done on my left kidney Dec 21st, right was scheduled for Dec 29th, caughtt covid while at hospital for the procedure on the 21st so right kidney on the 29th was cancelled and now it's scheduled for this Weds the 12th.

They are no fun, and had the blasting 19 times already with Weds now being the 20th...... yeah I hate water lol.

If its only a small stone. Try to find "pms-diclofenac" . Its a supository. Its my goto for kidney stones. In 10minutes , I am on seventh heaven.