Current Events > Have you ever had a kidney stone?

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Was it big?

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Yes. I forget how big it was, but the doctor said it was on the verge of being too big to pass. I wanna say seven inches?

I don't remember passing it, but it hasn't bothered me since then. Though bothering is kind of an understatement. They gave me three doses of morphine that didn't do shit before a dose of fentanyl basically knocked me out.

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pegusus123456 posted...

Yes. I forget how big it was, but the doctor said it was on the verge of being too big to pass. I wanna say seven inches?

I don't remember passing it, but it hasn't bothered me since then. Though bothering is kind of an understatement. They gave me three doses of morphine that didn't do shit before a dose of fentanyl basically knocked me out.

Wow. So wait is it still in you? Or did the morphine knock you out for surgery?

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No, I didn't have surgery or anything. They gave me some medicine that's supposed to help pass it, so maybe I did it without noticing.

Also it was probably seven milometers or something. Probably wasn't seven inches lmao.

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pegusus123456 posted...

No, I didn't have surgery or anything. They gave me some medicine that's supposed to help pass it, so maybe I did it without noticing.

Also it was probably seven milometers or something. Probably wasn't seven inches lmao.

Oh okay. Thats considerably better. Haha. When you said seven inches I was like dude

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Yes, worst pain in my life. My boss and coworkers didnt believe me because it was on 420. Thankfully it passed after like 5 hours of pain. I was in the hospital and they gave me some medicine for the pain and to help it pass. Pain meds did nothing and after I left I was walking around Target waiting for my prescription, which I think helped a lot. When I got back home I needed to pee and it came out. So I ended up not ever using the medicine they prescribed me. I caught it in the strainer they gave me and it was pretty big iirc.

Returning_CEmen posted...

Yes, worst pain in my life. My boss and coworkers didnt believe me because it was on 420. Thankfully it passed after like 5 hours of pain. I was in the hospital and they gave me some medicine for the pain and to help it pass. Pain meds did nothing and after I left I was walking around Target waiting for my prescription, which I think helped a lot. When I got back home I needed to pee and it came out. So I ended up not ever using the medicine they prescribed me. I caught it in the strainer they gave me and it was pretty big iirc.

Thats pretty cool. I dont ever want one, but if I did get one Id prolly keep it after it passed

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I had one once. Every step I took hurt like hell. Couldn't lay on my back at all. When I finally passed it it was the size of a grain of rice. Hard to believe something that tiny caused so much pain.
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Curious, what was the major reason the ones that got it, got it? Did you drink very little water? Something missing in your diet?

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InfinityMonster posted...

Curious, what was the major reason the ones that got it, got it? Did you drink very little water? Something missing in your diet?

Probably drinking more soda than water in my case.
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pegusus123456 posted...

No, I didn't have surgery or anything. They gave me some medicine that's supposed to help pass it, so maybe I did it without noticing.

Also it was probably seven milometers or something. Probably wasn't seven inches lmao.

It's like tamsiloson or something they give you. I get them semi regularly, and there is no way to describe the pain they cause. Nothing helps, you get comfortable. The first time I got one I woke up in the middle of the night curdled up into a ball and I thought I was dying.
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No but I might someday, looking at my family.

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Had one, wouldn't recommend but it is what it is. Not sure quite how to compare it with when my appendix corkscrewed up and stuck against the intestine. I was in too much pain to stay conscious for that while waiting in the ER, but the kidney stone was so bad I couldn't sleep at all.

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Yeah, but it was broken up into multiple painful pieces that you can see floating around in my jar of pee.

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I've had multiple. One that I had to have a ureteroscopy to remove.

All this talk about kidney stones, suddenly I have to take a piss

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InfinityMonster posted...

Curious, what was the major reason the ones that got it, got it? Did you drink very little water? Something missing in your diet?

I literally only drink water.

Its moreno genetic. My dad gets them, and unfortunately I got one. Im pretty sure Ive had smaller ones pass in the past, but Ive only had one that was debilitating

Haven't had one, but with the amount of alcohol I drink, I'm probably destined for them soon. Just the description of them makes me pretty certain I'd rather die than pass them.

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Had one that was too big to pass. Wanted to die.

Initial plan was to use sound waves to break it up and pet me pass harmless powder.

What they ended up doing was blow it apart with a laser and have me pass the broken shards. Wanted to die all over again.

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I find this all morbidly fascinating

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Nope.

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Heartomaton posted...

Had one that was too big to pass. Wanted to die.

Initial plan was to use sound waves to break it up and pet me pass harmless powder.

What they ended up doing was blow it apart with a laser and have me pass the broken shards. Wanted to die all over again.

You couldnt get it surgically removed? Or was that too dangerous?

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Flanders posted...

You couldnt get it surgically removed? Or was that too dangerous?

It wasn't big enough to warrant surgery, they said.

Everything would be fine, they said.

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Heartomaton posted...

Everything would be fine, they said.

Famous last words...

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No, but I've had gallstones.

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I've had 2, but not at the same time.

Both of them got out naturally, but man did it hurt...I still remember how much those darned things hurt, and I got them in 2012 and 2015.

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