Bigger than a sesame seed, heckuva lot smaller than it felt like

[jducoeur]

The 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...

Comments

[talvinm.livejournal.com]

Cranberry Juice!

(But consult your physician first, of course.)

[la-peregrina.livejournal.com]

Hydrate constantly, too, and cut down on salt intake, believe it or not.

[jducoeur]

Huh -- hadn't occurred to me that salt intake was relevant. I'm already working on that one, for my blood pressure...

[jducoeur]

Yeah, that's one I've heard before, and may need to take seriously. My main concern is the amount of sugar in palatable cranberry juice. (My main liquids tend to be zero-sugar.) But I'll chat with the urologist tomorrow.

[talvinm.livejournal.com]

The only comparable thing I have heard (and definitely take this one to a pro) is, ironically: Beer.

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.

[jducoeur]

Hah! I'm a bit skeptical, but I'll live in hope...

[keshwyn]

I take cranberry pills to prevent UTIs. They aren't quite as good as straight juice, but they seem to work and they also give me extra vitamin C. If kidney stones are handled by the same acidifying effect, maybe those would work?

[jducoeur]

Possible -- something for me to keep in mind...