Oh man, how I don't want to do this but I must.
Prayers and positive thoughts please.
Prayers and positive thoughts please.
Wish me luck! Getting kidney-stone blasted today!!
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Oh man, how I don't want to do this but I must.
Prayers and positive thoughts please.
Prayers for a good result and quick recovery.
Had the procedure performed ten years ago. For two weeks after, every time I whizzed I thought I was menstruating. I believe it is the lesser of two evils, but that kind of trauma, reducing a stone to razor sharp edges pieces, must do some damage to soft kidney tissue. I make a point of drinking more water daily than pre-procedure.Oh man, how I don't want to do this but I must.
Prayers and positive thoughts please.
Good luck. Had it done last year. Drink lots of fluids afterwards. Might sound crazy but the more you go to the bathroom the quicker the pain of going goes away! After a couple of days the worst part was the stent, hopefully you won’t need one.
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You’ll feel better soon, learn to love cranberry juice every morning.....
You’ll feel better soon, learn to love cranberry juice every morning.....
Best wishes for a speedy recovery.....played golf recently with a client who had this procedure.....he said it was not bad at all. BTW......PHILLIES.....EAGLES.....SIXERS.....FLYERS !Oh man, how I don't want to do this but I must.
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If these are uric acid stones you can actually dissolve them over time by raising the PH of your urine with simple medications. I take six tablets of Sodium Bicarbonate 650mg tabs per day and four tablets of Potassium Citrate 10meq SA tabs per day. I also drink a lot of fluids including Crystal Light Lemonade which helps with the PH issue. Over a six month period two very large stones in one kidney simply disappeared and none have reappeared for a year now. This is easier than surgery or blasting stones away and you still have to deal with the little pieces passing through your system. Better to just have none to worry about.
Just FYI, lithotripsy (smashing stones with ultrasound) is NOT considered the ideal treatment any more. There is a procedure (pioneered in Philadelphia) that involves pushing a rather large catheter through the penis, through the bladder, through the ureter all the way up to the kidney -- and then the doctor breaks up the stone and pulls the pieces back down through the catheter.
The problem with lithotripsy is twofold -- the ultrasound has to be quite powerful to break up the stone, and that causes bruising of the kidney. And secondly, as others have noted, when it's done you have these nasty sharp stone fragments that all have to pass through the system. So the period after the procedure can be very uncomfortable.
With the catheter procedure, there is (personal experience) a LOT of pain for a couple of days of recovery, but there is no stone to pass so after a week things are pretty much pain free.
However the catheter procedure is not possible for a lot of people depending on location of stone or whether the ureter can handle the tube.
In any case I'm grateful for modern medicine. Kidney stones used to kill a lot of men, very painfully.
The problem with lithotripsy is twofold -- the ultrasound has to be quite powerful to break up the stone, and that causes bruising of the kidney. And secondly, as others have noted, when it's done you have these nasty sharp stone fragments that all have to pass through the system. So the period after the procedure can be very uncomfortable.
With the catheter procedure, there is (personal experience) a LOT of pain for a couple of days of recovery, but there is no stone to pass so after a week things are pretty much pain free.
However the catheter procedure is not possible for a lot of people depending on location of stone or whether the ureter can handle the tube.
In any case I'm grateful for modern medicine. Kidney stones used to kill a lot of men, very painfully.
My colon was removed. Therefore, my “stools” are quite watery which causes me to dehydrate easily. This provides the perfect set- up for stones. I am also on a blood thinner. I get stones at places from which they are not a threat to pass but cause bleeding. I have the catheter procedure at Thomas Jefferson Hospital. Procedure is not a problem but the stent afterwards ain’t no fun.
Oh man, how I don't want to do this but I must.
Prayers and positive thoughts please.
THOUGHTS. AND. PRAYERS.
Seriously, be well.
Best of luck... although I'd leave it at getting stoned and hope for the bestOh man, how I don't want to do this but I must.
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Good luck.Oh man, how I don't want to do this but I must.
Prayers and positive thoughts please.
I’m out! On pain meds now obviously. Stent stays in until next Thursday. Went pee! Pain a 3-4 with meds. Without pain med it would be 9-10.
4-6 weeks a YEAR?!?! I have my big stones (> 1 cm) removed using the procedure described in tboyer's post and I only miss 2 days of work for that (1 for the stent insertion and then 1 for the stone extraction a couple weeks later.) But I only get the big stones maybe once every other year. Even the times I've had lithotripsy I was back at work the next day. Geez, I feel bad for anyone getting large stones several times a year!!!
Good luck.Oh man, how I don't want to do this but I must.
Prayers and positive thoughts please.
I know people who had it done and said it wasn't too painful. I'm probably just a baby but I had a cystoscopy and I was peeing razor blades for 4-5 days. I hope it goes well for you.
As far as I'm concerned that is supposed to be a one way street.
I had no problem with the stent removal. It was painless.
As was suggested earlier in the thread, if your stones are the result of uric acid, you can avoid new stones and dissolve old ones by drinking acidic stuff. I was told I had two kidney stones after an MRI for another reason--one large and another medium. I started drinking lemonade instead of soda, and when I had another MRI a couple of years later, the stones were gone. I'm still drinking lemonade instead of soda, and haven't had a problem.
Glad you’re ok. No need to post a live stream of the stent removal.
I sure hope that your physician isn’t aOh man, how I don't want to do this but I must.
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Domer. Good luck, in any case!
I had a friend that had kidney stones. And after his experience, never wanting to have that happen to him again, he started to drink this much water:
