the excurating pain comes from when they stick.... when they move you can feel it. sometimes when you pass them you know, sometimes you don't. this started in my flank, and was bad, I mean couldnt lay down bad. and moved to the groin on that side. I had a regular schedualed scan that next week, and they saw the stone. did a ct and saw the stone. the day I ended up throwing up (your body can take percocet only so long till it gives up) and leaving work, another ct didnt show the stone. they where expected it lodged and have to go get it, but it was gone. hurt, sore like, for another week and a half, but thats sometimes just from the trama the tubes go thru. A normal person can pass one around 3.5 mm, and I can pass one about 4.5 mm, bigger than that ya normnally got to do something but only once they cause a problem. I had a monstor, 18 x 22 in the upper poe of my kidney (kidney is made like a snow man, think his head) that was so big it couldnt fall down into the kidney. itd move, and stop up the flow, Id get a sharp pain, and turn on my side and could feel it slide over. wicked cool, had it been on someone else, and not me. As long as it was floating it didnt hurt anything, so we just waited until we had to do something to it. Ive had so many of those lithos where they bust them up with soundwaves, they dont want to do those any more to me. last 2 procdures where going up with a lazer and busting them from the inside... they leave a stint in there for a couple weeks to stretch the tube, and when they pull it out you can pass some SERIOUS peices of gravel. Last time I left em in the urinal for a co worker to go see, and I thought he was gonna pass out. time before, they came around the tube with the stiny into the other tube on that kidney (i got a double tube, like some kinda freak), and I passed 20 mm of rock in about 6 hours.... worst pain I ever had in my life. those lil strainers they give you, I filled one up about 1/2 inch thick with rock. couldnt take nuff dope, tequila, and nasuea medcine to pass out, and the when i told the doctor what was happening he wanted to put me in hosital to knock me out till they came out... he was amazaed I could still talk after what all i took, he said man you ought to be passed out. I was like dude, if I could pass out, I wouldnt need you on the phone! ha.
I got a rare kidney disease that makes these stones. I got good doctors, and luckily, insurance to help with all this stuff. Still, my credit is ruined from all the medical bills I do have... you cant keep up with them all even if you can pay them. I could let it stop me, or even bother me, but whats the point? Only thing I ever get scared of, is being somewhere and not being able to get home. So if i got a stone acting up, i just make sure somebody can drive. Whats really odd about my condtion is, doc mccullough on here is the one the pointed me in the right direction (a nephrologist is a kidney disease doctor, a urlogist is a surgeon) and saved me probably a lot of pain and procdures by being concearned and his help. I have excellent doctors, and a friend thats a urlogist and nephrologist, that i can get the rest of the story if i think I dont understand something. being involved in your own care is sadly something most dont do, and theres a lot of times nothing happens unless you are.
but nuff bout my kidney suffering... Im oppressed! travis
