sarah_ab Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Dear Kidney Stone I want to thank you so very much for the all the lovely pain medicine you have given me access to. I want to tell you, you can now leave at any time. Sincerely, Your sometimes friend, Sarah 2 1/2 hours of writhing in pain on the bathroom floor waiting for the boyfriend to get home so he could take me to the ER Just as I get to the ER doors, i blow chunks all over the mat outside the door. The ER staff were great, and since you can't fake that kind of pain, or a 220/168 blood pressure, they got me into a bed as quickly as possible. ahead of all the people in the ER waiting room. I was so dehydrated, it took them what felt like forever to find a vein in order to give me pain meds... Finally the nurse found one and wonderful dilaudid entered my blood stream. 6 hours later i was able to go home, I still had not passed the kidney stone, but my blood pressure was back down to 111/81. I now have a prescription for a medication that explicitly states "not for females" .... but its because its a prostate medicine, but its also i guess been found to help break up kidney stones. I still have not passed the stone. I could not go to work today, which sucks because last night i spend 4 hours making cakes, and stuffed olives, and jambalaya for mardi gras party at work today. The CT scanner machine talked to me. It tells you when to hold your breath and when to let it out. The voice was all gruff sounding like "Take a deep breath and hold it!" it was not a nice voice at all. Link to comment
Guest little_jonny Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 oh dear, hope your feeling better and pass that stone. i've had three kidney stones and know the pain, went to the ER twice for kidne stones and the thrid one i passed on my own.. you had to have one bad stone to be in that much pain. i still remember that feeling. feels like someone is stabing you in the groin.. hope you pass it soon, take care Link to comment
babykeiff Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 ... The ER staff were great, and since you can't fake that kind of pain, or a 220/168 blood pressure, ... Please, please, pretty please, if you are ever in that amount of pain, phone an ambulance. That blood pressure is dangerously fatal to most internal organs. ... Finally the nurse found one and wonderful dilaudid entered my blood stream. ... I bet that felt great when it starts to make you float. I wish you well, and suggest that you increase your water intake - by a factor of 100 and that you avoid all those quickie foods, diet drinks and artificial sugars - at least for a while. A kidney stone is mainly made up of calcium, the same stuff that chalk is made from, but is bonded together. It is possible anytime to form kidney stones, but high water flow ensures that particulates do not combine in high enough concentrations to form same. Get well soon. 1 Link to comment
bbgirlmichelle Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Ow, I'm so sorry to hear that. I hope you're enjoying the pain meds though. Get lots of rest and feel better. *huggles* Michelle Link to comment
attends_99 Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Sorry to hear about your kidney stone I hope it passes and you are feeling much better very soon. Link to comment
LILJIM Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Sorry to hear about your kidney stone I hope it passes and you are feeling much better very soon. Same here. Link to comment
beachxbunni123 Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Aww get well! I know someone that had that. Don't worry you'll get better! :)Rest and relax!!! Link to comment
sarah_ab Posted March 9, 2011 Author Share Posted March 9, 2011 thanks guys!!!! as for my super high blood pressure... it was a combination of the extreme pain, coupled with teh vomitting, couple with the increase in anxiety of course i didn't KNOW it was that high until i got to the ER.... I don't think it was that high until i started vomitting and then got to the ER, and when i saw how many people were in the waiting room, my anxiety got worse, because i thought i would be at the end of that long line..... but as i said, the minute they got the pain meds in me, my anxiety went down, i could breath deeply again and my blood pressure starting going down... within an hour it was back to normal..... but thank you all for the well wishes! hopefully it will pass before i go to work tomorrow, because its so hard to actually work on pain meds! Link to comment
Burp_Cup Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Hope it all goes as easily as possible for you! Take care. Link to comment
square_duck Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Ok...I know this totally much suck big banana peels and I do hope you get over it son Something I remember seeing long ago, had to do with either kidney or bladder stones. Some research in Japan (naturally) had people with stones doing things like jumping jacks or jumping up an down to dislodge the stone and get it to move using gravity and motion and such. Di dit work?? I don't know it might not be something you want to do...or might not be something you SHOULD do....I don't know...but it came to mind and I thought it might be worth 'passing' along drink lots of fluids and get well qwick Link to comment
Bettypooh Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Best wishes on a speedy recovery- sans kidney stone! Bettypooh Link to comment
Guest Baby Tiana Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Aww I am so sorry to hear that my dear Sarah. But at least you got the wonderful meds I hope you pass the kidney stone soon. I've never gone for that, but many times for cysts on my ovaries, and that hurts like hell, so I think I might be able to relate to how you felt. The CT in my town has a nice voice. But it is weird that it talks to you. Did they give you the weird injection that makes you all warm and feel like you wet your pants? They had to give it to me twice, and each time I was wishing I was wearing a diaper, just incase I actually did wet! LOL it was so hard to figure out if I was or not. Link to comment
sarah_ab Posted March 9, 2011 Author Share Posted March 9, 2011 In regards to a kidney stone, mine is around 3 mm in diameter... the tube it has to pass through is around 0.5 mm in diameter... the stone is not smooth and round, but rather jagged and rough..... so imagin passing something the size of a watermelon with jagged edges, through something the size of a lemon.... VERY painful... I cannot even begin to describe the pain. I'm not sure HOW people in japan feeling that pain can do jumping jacks..... perhaps its after they have the pain meds, but then i was so stoned i couldn't move... personally, it was all i could do to remind myself to breath..... i mean seriously, i kept trying to do the 'breath deep and slow' thing..... it would work for maybe a minute or two... but then the pain or nausea would win and i'd start panting again...... Link to comment
Wetdl Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 In regards to a kidney stone, mine is around 3 mm in diameter... the tube it has to pass through is around 0.5 mm in diameter... the stone is not smooth and round, but rather jagged and rough..... so imagin passing something the size of a watermelon with jagged edges, through something the size of a lemon.... VERY painful... I cannot even begin to describe the pain. I'm not sure HOW people in japan feeling that pain can do jumping jacks..... perhaps its after they have the pain meds, but then i was so stoned i couldn't move... personally, it was all i could do to remind myself to breath..... i mean seriously, i kept trying to do the 'breath deep and slow' thing..... it would work for maybe a minute or two... but then the pain or nausea would win and i'd start panting again...... Hope your starting to feel a little better Link to comment
aleyxsis Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 Get better Sarah !! think of a happy place ! and take your meds lol Link to comment
wishing for diapers Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 In regards to a kidney stone, mine is around 3 mm in diameter... As a walking rock quarry I'd like to say "I feel your pain", but happily for me (given my predilection for creating them) I can't. Outside of the one episode (similar to what you describe) that got me into the ER to find out I had a stone, they just don't bother me. The last one I passed a few months ago was 4mm and it just popped out (diaper caught it FTW!! but my doctor wanted it to analyze FTL ). For non-aberrations of nature like my self, you should probably talk to Urologist about getting Lithotrypsy for a stone that big as it will be painful if it even passes on it's own. At least your ER doc told you how big it is after the CT. Mine didn't. Just gave me a filter and said it should pass (no drugs even!) "though I might want to follow up with a Urologist". Uncharacteristically I did follow up, turns out that "little" bastard was the size of the tip of my thumb (just over 1/2" IIRC). 12 years and 7 lithos later and I still have remnants of that bugger that just won't clear out (took 3 just to get all the large pieces broken enough so they could pass). Word to the wise, if you need a donor kidney, make sure it wasn't my right one Feel better soon. Link to comment
sarah_ab Posted March 10, 2011 Author Share Posted March 10, 2011 I'm taking flomax first.. its a prostate medication, but it has been found to help break up stones.... 3mm is actually a relatively smaller stone.... if it hasn't passed by friday morning i'll call my doc ... but i have a feeling it will..... i had an episode of three stones before.. it was 6 years ago.... i passed one on my apartment floor writhing in pain, passed the second on in the back of hte car on the way to the er.... passed the third one thankfully doped up in the er.... Link to comment
wishing for diapers Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 I'm taking flomax first.. He gave me flomax for my last one since it decided to take a vacation in my bladder (no pain, but a solid week of feeling like I had to pee!) and he said the flomax was a mild muscle relaxer. Still took another 3 days to pass and I still had another 7mm waiting in the wings that we went ahead and broke up a few weeks later even though it was stable (you could literally stack 4 years of KUBs up and see that there was no change). Now he has me going to metabolic specialists to see why I keep creating them since I don't fit the profile for what normally contributes to them (calcium oxcalate). The Nephrologist wants to put me on more drugs, but I'm not doing that given that I'm lucky enough that they are only irritating at worst for me. Link to comment
sarah_ab Posted March 10, 2011 Author Share Posted March 10, 2011 in essense yes flomax is a muscle relaxer.. its an alpha blocker.. that works to relax the muscles in the prostate and bladder of men to help them urinate ... but its been found to help break up kidney stones as well... flomax is not for women in general, but the dr assured me it was safe to take for a short period of time. Link to comment
diaperpt Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 UGH! I hope you get that thing out soooon! I feel bad that you've gone through so much pain. Gives a whole new meaning to a phrase like "a stone's throw from the hospital" Link to comment
alex 04 Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 hope you are much better soon sarah trying to beat the stone up so it will pass soon Link to comment
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