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Duuuuuude!

 

No my face looked more like this during the procedure but that was my inital face when I saw it laying on the counter in the doctors office

 

Ummm, way too much information for an internet forum. A car forum at that.

Steve summed it up pretty well with that picture.

 

remember tophers thread about peeing at various odd angles? Thats the first thing I thought of when I read this.

 

ok Ill clean it up then "FIXED?"

 

I think it looks like a predators dreadlock

 

I have had a stone. Once.

I have never felt more betrayed by my body in my entire life.

Fuck that.

 

Did you have to do this as well?^^

 

take some flomax and dilate your shit.

as recommended by your resident doctor***

 

this will help with what exactly?

 

helps you pass the stone out with a little less pain usually since all the passages are dilated.

note - i was also hammered when i posted that lol

 

What in your diet is causing this? I quit eating Tums years ago because of this. The added calcium just ends up in your Pee Pee. Just say No to ant acids.

 

You are clearly not drinking enough beer if your pee is drying up on you in your bladder.

 

I find it rather hard to keep well hydrated during the cooler months, I would not be shocked if I end up on the list of stoners soon.

Mental note *Drink more water*

 

I find it rather hard to keep well hydrated during the cooler months, I would not be shocked if I end up on the list of stoners soon.

Mental note *Drink more water*

yeah - I'm wagering I'll be on the list myself sometime since I drink 80% Diet Ice Tea everyday..... I rarely drink straight water in more then 16oz quantity these days. And don't get me started on my coffee intake either. lol I'd doomed to piss stones.

 

I'm a stoner from way back. My first kidney stone attack happened about 14 years ago. I was driving a 24' straight truck up a main street in one of Cincys suburbs and almost passed out from the pain.

Spent a night in the hospital, passed the stone over night. I've had a few attacks since then. The most recent happened at the end of the summer and it was one of the worst. I had two separate attacks in a weeks time. I couldn't eat and then I stared throwing up the pain killers and the anti-nausea meds.

I've never had anything inserted into my pee pee.

Burns, DeLorean, start drinking water and instead of iced tea, drink green tea.

 

They just put me on Flowmax and said it shrinks the prostate so you empty better.

I guess they have to come out of the bottle to work though.

 

some thing are better off not thinking about but after seeing that tool you just gave me new nightmares.

 

Reminds me of my colonoscopy last fall. Same impliment I think. The funniest part was me almost passing out of shock during the iv placement. It took 2 nurses.

All this talk has convinced me to drink more beer tonight, and to cleanse my colon with a ton of hot chicken wings.

 

 

this scares me.

 

I have some Diet Green Tea @ work for this week! lol Green tea is alright too.

 

Kidney stone almost killed my dad. The stone was so large it blocked the kidney up and cause the kidney to back flow into the blood stream giving him a fever of 107 degrees. If he wasn't in the hospital and in marathon shape they said it would have killed him.

Stones are no joke.

 

Well the doc thinks even though I am in no pain that I may have one because I bleed more after a long run which means it could be bouncing around and since its past the 4 week normal pass time it may be to big to leave my kidney. Me personally think BS and think its going to be more serious than that.

 

They can bust them up with ultrasonic stuff too. Sounds delightful.

 

I. Am. Horrified.


I am going right now to down a balls-ton of water and to throw away all the Tums in the house.

 

Beyond large quantities of beer intake, I can honestly say I typically average a 1/2 to full gallon of water a day. I very rarely drink soda, never drink tea or coffee and pretty much normally always piss clear (sign of good hydration).

Drink that water guys! Not only to prevent the stones, but overall it helps with just feeling better and healthier.

 

I've had that gizmo inserted a couple times. I had a kidney stone get stuck and impacted. Worst pain I ever had in my life. I seriously wished they'd just kill me. I was morphed up for a couple days. They had to go in and put a stint around the impacted stone to drain my kidney, then put me on drugs to kill the swelling and get the stone to free up. Then they went back in again to remove the stint. Basically 2 surgical procedures without an incision--use your imagination.

Kidney stones are srs bsns--drink your water!

 

My old man had an incident where the hospital told him he had both a kidney and a bladder stone issue - and that they would pass on their own. He was warned to expect the usual pain and was sent on his way. They never passed - and I believe they can't find them during an x-ray either. Guess they dissolved? lol

 

Rumor has it if you catch them early on, or if they are small enough, they can blast you with some mega-gnarly death ray radiation gun to break them up, Asteroidz-style.