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jducoeurThe pain died down a couple of hours ago -- while I was attributing that to the megadose of ibuprofen, I suspected that it might be due to the thing moving along, and so it seems to have done. Peeing through a funnel is an annoying thing to have to do, but it does provide fine closure in the form of, "Yes, the damned thing is out of your body".
Still a bit of residual achiness here and there, but I suspect that's more muscle tension than anything else. Hopefully that's the end of it, at least this time around. In the grand scheme of things, I got lucky: one day of that horror is shorter than most, far as I understand it. And I now have something to assiduously try to avoid, from here on out...
Still a bit of residual achiness here and there, but I suspect that's more muscle tension than anything else. Hopefully that's the end of it, at least this time around. In the grand scheme of things, I got lucky: one day of that horror is shorter than most, far as I understand it. And I now have something to assiduously try to avoid, from here on out...
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Date: 2012-07-04 02:16 am (UTC)(But consult your physician first, of course.)
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Date: 2012-07-04 03:02 pm (UTC)My maternal gene-donor developed one of these once in the hospital, and the doctor prescribed (prescribed! With a little prescription label and everything!) beer for it. They brought it to her on the meds cart accompanied by much merriment.
But she worked at that hospital, so it may have been the sort of tomfoolery that the medical profession doesn't like the rest of us to know about.
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Date: 2012-07-04 03:38 pm (UTC)Oh good!
Date: 2012-07-04 02:38 am (UTC)Re: Oh good!
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Date: 2012-07-04 03:27 am (UTC)Glad to hear you got through this quickly.
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Date: 2012-07-04 02:55 pm (UTC)Find out what kind you had.
Date: 2012-07-04 11:31 am (UTC)Mike's stones were uric acid stones, which are chemically like the crystals that form in the joints when you have gout. (His family is predisposed to both.) He takes a cheap generic drug to control it, and hasn't had an attack since. If you had the more common calcium oxalate stones, you'd want to consider increasing your citrate intake.
Best thing to do is, at your leisure, get X-rayed to see if you've got any bigger stones lurking in your kidneys. The stone you felt could have broken off a larger one.
Re: Find out what kind you had.
Date: 2012-07-04 03:01 pm (UTC)As for the x-ray, I believe that yesterday's CT scan checked both kidneys. My impression from reading the gobbledygook is that there are a few other stones in there, but all are "tiny", and they aren't in especially worrying places. But presumably the urologist is going to talk with me about what to do about them.
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Date: 2012-07-04 01:13 pm (UTC)I had one when I was 36 weeks pregnant with Noah, which meant no real painkillers.... not fun.
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Date: 2012-07-04 02:34 pm (UTC)I do hope the kidney has suffered no lasting damage.
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Date: 2012-07-04 02:48 pm (UTC)My utter sympathies.
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Date: 2012-07-04 06:08 pm (UTC)Seconding the cranberry pills, especially if you're trying to avoid the sugar in juice. I use Target's generic ones which also provide a nice dose of C. Watch your calcium intake - specifically, if you are prone to popping over the counter antacids like Tums. I'm pretty sure one of my stones was helped along by the fact that I was popping Tums like candy at the time, while also taking a calcium supplement in my daily vitamin regimen. I'd say to watch your coffee intake as well, but you already do. Hydrate!!!
If the pain comes back or you start feeling UTI and/or flu symptoms, get to a doctor ASAP. One of my stones came with a kidney infection they didn't pick up on right away...
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Date: 2012-07-04 06:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-07-05 10:29 pm (UTC)Was given vicoden to take home. At first, I thought it wasn't having any effects other than reducing pain. Then I went across the street to Target to get some cranberry juice. It being October, they had costume displays up, and it started occurring to me that maybe I did actually need a lifesize giant chicken costume when I thought "Maybe the vicoden has kicked in".
Never felt it actually pass, but the pain stopped so either it passed or moved elsewhere in the kidney where it's not bothered me since.
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Date: 2012-07-06 12:42 pm (UTC)