doughboy33

I feel your pain, have passed over 100 so far. I think I would be looking for a new Dr.

Steve_m Loc: Southern California

I don't go out without long nose pliers.

donrosshill Loc: Delaware & Florida

My god, what is your diet? I want to make sure I don't eat that.
Don

taffthetooth Loc: U.K

I think your Urologist was taking the piss!

Doddy Loc: Barnard Castle-England

LOL...

oldtigger Loc: Roanoke Virginia-USA

Words like sociopathic hack have occurred to me.
would love to give his patient list to a class action lawyer.

thomseninc

My sympathy. I started having kidney stones back in 1985, and get around 4-5 every year. If you ever dehydrate your body the urine in your kidneys becomes a super-saturated solution and tiny crystals start to grow in your kidneys. Once that happens, get ready for a life with your new friends. The good news is that after 30-40 of these things your ureters get scarred and the pain in the back lessens somewhat. The bad news is the urethra doesn't seem to lose any sensitivity, so the end game remains a challenge. Get familiar with an OTC drug called Azo - my Number 1 go to treatment. My last major stone (i.e., worth seeing a doctor for) was 1.6cm. Don't be thrilled if they tell you that you are going to have a lithotripty procedure. All that does is turn that 1.6cm sphere into an uncountable number of 2-3mm bundles of joy. Good luck!

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

Any truth to this?

Reduce risk of kidney stones. Men's Health reports a Finnish study found a beer a day lowers the risk of developing kidney stones by an astounding 40 percent.

Richie Ziccardi

Hi oldtigger,i always read the forum have been for many years.Having Kidney stones is no picnic.My wife suffers from this problem constantly,and has had
3-4 lipo treatments.There are two types of kidney stones,calcium and oxalates(ethanedioic acid)her urologist told her to drink water with fresh lemon juice.The lemon juice helps break up the stones and helps to stop them from forming.She has been doing this for two years now and has not had anymore
problem with stones.(I very rarely respond to questions on the forum)I just thought i can pass along the information the doctor gave us to help others with the pain,as my wife says,it's worse than giving birth.When she had issues we would go to the hospital,they give her a morphine IV to ease the pain.I hope this helps all who have read your post.
Best of health to all
Richie
P.S.when the doctor sends us a reminder he asks to confirm-RSVPP

whitewolfowner

A truer statement could not be said. Modern health care sucks beyond anything Steven King could up with in one of his books.

Flyerace Loc: Mt Pleasant, WI

Looks like a diet including cranberry juice is in your future. What pain you had. My husband had a stone that couldn't move. They did a Lithotripsy and broke it up. Took about a week, but he passed lots of little sandy pieces. Hasn't had any more trouble.

grillmaster5062

I've been dealing with kidney stones for 3 years now! I operate heat treat furnaces for 1 of the auto companies, and I used to drink lots of Gatorade to combat the heat and fluid loss. After spending 7 hours in the ER and having 2 morphine shots, the doctors told me that one of the leading causes is kidney stones is Gatorade. The electrolytes help them to form and crystalize. I drink mainly water and coffee/ tea now.

oldtigger Loc: Roanoke Virginia-USA

Glad you mentioned that, cause i hate plain water and was about to switch to gatorade for the flavor.

The Watcher

I can't even imagine dealing with a kidney stone of that size. Back in 2001, I was having kidney stone problems. They were due to dehydration caused by the extreme temperatures we worked in. You could drink more than a gallon of water during the shift and never have to pee. After the pain become more that I could stand I ended up seeing a doctor. He took a urine sample and found no blood in it. He didn't do any other tests and gave me some low dose Percocet, suggesting I increase my liquid intake. I think the doctor thought I was there for drugs and was using kidney stones as the excuse. A week passed with bouts of extreme pain and nausea from the pain meds. This time I went to a Urologist. He ordered a CT scan and found a large stone working it's way to my bladder from my left kidney. He said, I was in luck since the traveling Lithotripsy machine would be at the hospital the following day. After the treatment the doctor ordered up another scan and discovered that the stone was still somewhat intact. He warned me about more pain as the stone made it's way to the bladder. That evening as I traveled home on a strong pain killer that doesn't make me sick, I found myself in extreme pain once again. After the pain had backed off a little, I called the doctor. The message on his phone said, "If you need to talk to me after hours, go to the emergency room and have them call me. they have my number." There was only a nurse at the emergency room. I explained to her what was going on and need to talk to my doctor. I explained the message on the phone and was informed that the doctor on call would have to check me out first. I give her my doctors phone number and ask her to listen to the message. She wouldn't do it. In the meantime another lady had showed up and was listening to our argument. She ask me to follow her into the other room and explain what was going on. After she heard my story and listened to the phone message, she dialed up my doctor. He told me to consider pain wonderful, that the stone now smaller, is on the move and will soon reach my bladder and to take my pain meds (now Vicodin)on time and strain my urine and save the stones for testing. Here's the part that I like. I thanked the lady and started to leave when she called me back and gave me a paper with the nurse's name and the hospital administrator's name and number. She told me there had been lots of problems with this nurse and how she treats people and hoped I would file a complaint. I did and discovered the hospital policy didn't require seeing the emergency room doctor first. The nurse was moved to where she was under better supervision.

oldtigger Loc: Roanoke Virginia-USA

There are so many layers of people between the patient and the doctor these days;
each layer trying to grab a piece of the pie.
Each layer adding delay and cost to the solution.