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Originally Posted by troutman
At the risk of over-sharing, I don’t mind talking about my recent experience with a kidney stone. I think it is important to talk about, and learn from each other.
I felt sharp pain in my right flank last Sunday night for about 20 minutes. I got out of bed and stood up for a while. The pain subsided, and I didn’t think much of it. Next day I went for a long strenuous hike and did fine for my age.
When I got home the pain returned and my urine was the color of cola. I went to Emergency right away, and was really uncomfortable. They took some blood, and examined me, and determined most likely I was passing a kidney stone (not an infection). I was prescribed Flomax, an antibiotic and tylenol. Never had one before, but knew it could become very painful. Talked to friends and read more about it online. Was scared to hear the pain of passing the stone could be worse than child birth.
I missed work for a few days. Waves of pain and discomfort came every few hours as the stone travelled towards the bladder. Thursday morning I went for a scan, and it was confirmed a 4 mm stone was approaching my bladder.
Yesterday I easily passed a stone with no pain. It seemed smaller than 4 mm and I wondered if more was to come. I think now that was it, and I am in the clear.
I’m grateful for the care from the hospital, and from friends and co-wowrkers. I’m lucky it wasn’t much worse.
I’d be interested to hear the experience of others.
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I’ve passed a bunch of stones and it sucks, mine was caused by a very odd issue.
Not sure why or how this happened but somehow I had scar tissue in my pisser just barely downstream of my bladder. I went to the doc a few times over a 7 year period and they couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t pee, and when I felt like I had to go I needed to pee within about a minute or else…tragedy. Doctors only took a urine sample that showed nothing.
Finally I had enough and went to the doc again and demanded to see a urologist, that’s when they found it like 90% blocked. Not being able to empty your bladder causes whatever minerals to back up your urinary system and develop stones. I’ve probably had a dozen or so in that 7 years.
It also made it tough to have a kid, so I ended up getting a f****** gnarly procedure done to have the scar tissue removed. After all was said and done, I glued my wife to the ceiling one night and she was pregnant within about a month.
