*******KIDNEYSTONES*******

[GOPBasher]

Congratulations to all who have recently gotten their kidneystones. I hear they hurt.

[rndmprsn]

1. had one about 3 years ago...

most pain ive ever felt in my life...nothing even comes close!

i woke up with the kidney stone in mid-stream and managed to drive my self to the hospital...i was in so much pain i was moaning and banging my head against the wall...so even though i had tons of ppl ahead of me in the emergency room they took me right in thank god! oh the relief when they gave me the morphine.

anyhow...mine passed in about 3 hours. since then i started drinking MUCH MUCH more water!

[GOPBasher]

2. That sounds rough.

Sorry you had to go through that. So water is how I prevent this?

[rndmprsn]

4. doc said water cleans and flushes your system out...

including the kidneys...although check to see if your area's water is high in calcium...thats def not good for the kidneys.

[fob]

3. YEAH! My first copycatted thread of my copycat thread!

:toast:

[GOPBasher]

5. Now there's a copycat of this copycat of your copycat of the original.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2774723

and then the copycat of that copycat of my copycat of your copycat of the original:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2774748

See?

[fob]

7. Man, there's NO WAY productivity has increased, all those threads

are evidence there is PLENTY of unused capacity in the system :evilgrin:

I guess I'll go back to doing work now...

[Hell Hath No Fury]

6. Oh man...

I have been there -- and it wasn't pretty! A few years ago I was trying to flip over in my bed and got a stabbing pain in my kidney area -- then my whole back spasmed like it had never done before. Couldn't sit, couldn't lay down, couldn't stand up straight. The docs thought I had pinched something in my back. It stayed like that for almost two weeks, during which I got around 2 hours sleep a night because the pain was so bad. Came close to hallucinating. The painkillers didn't work -- it finally took a huge dose of Valium to make my back unlock.

Then I started to get blood in my urine. Oops! It wasn't a simple twisted back after all. It took two months, start to finish, for me to pass that damn kidney stone. (And the bladder cramps I got were no picnic either.) When it finally arrived, it was shaped like a "y", a quarter inch long, and felt as sharp as coral.

Shit, no wonder it hurt so much!!! :scared:

[rndmprsn]

9. WOW MY GOD...

a freaking 1/4" long?!

i can only imagine the pain as mine was like half the size of a sprinkle...and it only lasted a few hours too, i can't imagine having to go through that for two months!!!

so...you drinking alot of water these days too?

peace

[GOPBasher]

11. Y'ouch!!!

Damn, that sounds like hell! I'm sorry.

[Crunchy Frog]

8. These look pretty painful to me.

These ones look like sharks teeth :scared:

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

10. My dad has had problems with kidney stones a couple of times

in the past. He didn't like them very much, but he seemed to a good job with dealing with the pain. He didn't complain much.