Kidney Stones

pearljgirl2010

I'm curious to find out if anyone else here has had kidney stones. I've had them 3 times, the most recently last night, then back in 2005, and first in 1998...I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy!!

If you have had them, have you had any luck with diet/vitamins/etc to help stop them? Unfortunately, mine have never been analyzed, so I don't know exactly what's caused them...

jimed14

I think too much calcium is one cause. At least, that's what my friend was told years ago when he had them.

AnarionKing

How do you know when you have a kidney stone? You're just on the toilet, and suddenly it starts to hurt like hell...? :?

eyedclaar

I thought that was a man thing... Guess not.

pearljgirl2010

jimed14 wrote:

I think too much calcium is one cause. At least, that's what my friend was told years ago when he had them.

you're right...calcium deposits. and, i believe a urologist told me that the type of calcium that's found in cranberry juice is one of the main types that causes kidney stones...he told me to stick with pomegranate or blueberry juices.

pearljgirl2010

AnarionKing wrote:

How do you know when you have a kidney stone? You're just on the toilet, and suddenly it starts to hurt like hell...? :?

it's similar to a urinary tract infection, but with excruciating lower back/kidney pain...and i've also had nausea, sweating, chills...hurts to breathe, move, lay down, etc...

It used to be that the demographic who gets them is middle-aged men, but more recently, a lot of children and women are getting them...

rival.

i had these fuckers about 4 years ago. went to key west with my girlfriend... flew home late friday night, woke up early saturday AM (probably no more than 4 hours after we landed) feeling like someone beat the crap out of me with a baseball bat. most pain i've ever experienced in my life. i couldn't move, i was paralyzed. i thought it was my apendix so i was freaking out that the thing was going to burst inside me, so i got rushed to the hospital in an ambulance and turns out they were kidney stones.

a few days passed and i wasn't able to pass them, so i had to go in for the surgery which was just an awful experience. use your imagination as to how they get them out of guys.

the cause can be debated. i have a history of kidney stones in my family and my doctor tells me there is no true medical conclusion that they are hereditary just yet, but more and more doctors are starting to lean in that direction. my stone got sent out for testing an it was all calcium (as i think like 90% are), so it very well could have just been my diet.

rival.

AnarionKing wrote:

How do you know when you have a kidney stone? You're just on the toilet, and suddenly it starts to hurt like hell...? :?

oh, you will know when you have a stone.

Backspacer 76

The most pain I have ever been in!
My girlfriend had to rush me to the emergency room 2 months ago
because I felt like I was dying. The pain was unbearable and I couldn't
stop vomiting.
Most people think that when you have a kidney stone or infection that it
will only hurt in the kidney area on your back. WRONG.
My kidney was hurting and it felt like i was being stabbed in the front right side
of my stomach.

I have had this problem 3 times in the last 6-8 years.
Never had one analyzed either.

Wouldn't wish that kind of pain on anybody.

pearljgirl2010

singularity wrote:

i had these fuckers about 4 years ago. went to key west with my girlfriend... flew home late friday night, woke up early saturday AM (probably no more than 4 hours after we landed) feeling like someone beat the crap out of me with a baseball bat. most pain i've ever experienced in my life. i couldn't move, i was paralyzed. i thought it was my apendix so i was freaking out that the thing was going to burst inside me, so i got rushed to the hospital in an ambulance and turns out they were kidney stones.

a few days passed and i wasn't able to pass them, so i had to go in for the surgery which was just an awful experience. use your imagination as to how they get them out of guys.

the cause can be debated. i have a history of kidney stones in my family and my doctor tells me there is no true medical conclusion that they are hereditary just yet, but more and more doctors are starting to lean in that direction. my stone got sent out for testing an it was all calcium (as i think like 90% are), so it very well could have just been my diet.

UGH...I feel realllly bad for guys who get them :-( It really is the most painful thing ever. I was 18 the first time, and all of the ER nurses told me that it was like childbirth....yowzers!

Both of my brothers have had them, and we recently discovered that my grandfather had them too...seems strange for all 3 of us to have them and it NOT be somewhat hereditary.

pearljgirl2010

Backspacer 76 wrote:

The most pain I have ever been in!
My girlfriend had to rush me to the emergency room 2 months ago
because I felt like I was dying. The pain was unbearable and I couldn't
stop vomiting.
[b]Most people think that when you have a kidney stone or infection that it
will only hurt in the kidney area on your back. WRONG.
My kidney was hurting and it felt like i was being stabbed in the front right side
of my stomach.[/b]
I have had this problem 3 times in the last 6-8 years.
Never had one analyzed either.

Wouldn't wish that kind of pain on anybody.

YES! That was me last night..not only did it feel like my lower left back was getting beat with a baseball bat, but i was also being stabbed in the front right side at the same time.

marcos

The worst pain I ever had. I've only had them once. I'm a man and I almost cried I believe in the hospital. Passing them was really bad and every chick I know said things like, now you know how it feels to give birth. I stopped eating eggplant which caused mine.

rival.

pearljgirl2010 wrote:

UGH...I feel realllly bad for guys who get them :-( It really is the most painful thing ever. I was 18 the first time, and all of the ER nurses told me that it was like childbirth....yowzers!

Both of my brothers have had them, and we recently discovered that my grandfather had them too...seems strange for all 3 of us to have them and it NOT be somewhat hereditary.

exactly. at a certain point, you just have to point in that direction as a cause.

i am just so thankful, i didn't go through all of that in key west. or even worse... on the plane home! i would have needed an emergency landing. i seriously thought i was going to die.

pearljgirl2010

marcos wrote:

The worst pain I ever had. I've only had them once. I'm a man and I almost cried I believe in the hospital. Passing them was really bad and every chick I know said things like, now you know how it feels to give birth. I stopped eating eggplant which caused mine.

eggplant...really??? That's interesting..I'll have to do some more research, although I don't eat eggplant. and I'm amazed that you DIDN'T cry...I'm a tough cookie, but these things turn me into a crying mess :roll:

Backspacer 76

pearljgirl2010 wrote:

Backspacer 76 wrote:

The most pain I have ever been in!
My girlfriend had to rush me to the emergency room 2 months ago
because I felt like I was dying. The pain was unbearable and I couldn't
stop vomiting.
[b]Most people think that when you have a kidney stone or infection that it
will only hurt in the kidney area on your back. WRONG.
My kidney was hurting and it felt like i was being stabbed in the front right side
of my stomach.[/b]
I have had this problem 3 times in the last 6-8 years.
Never had one analyzed either.

Wouldn't wish that kind of pain on anybody.

YES! That was me last night..not only did it feel like my lower left back was getting beat with a baseball bat, but i was also being stabbed in the front right side at the same time.

REALLY SORRY that you are having the "stabbing in the stomach" pain.
I am 33. And that is the only pain I have ever felt that just brings me to my knees.
When I try to explain to my girlfriend how bad it hurts on my stomach she thinks I am exaggerating!
I hope you get rid of your stones and never have them again pearljgirl2010.

pearljgirl2010

Backspacer 76 wrote:

REALLY SORRY that you are having the "stabbing in the stomach" pain.
I am 33. And that is the only pain I have ever felt that just brings me to my knees.
When I try to explain to my girlfriend how bad it hurts on my stomach she thinks I am exaggerating!
I hope you get rid of your stones and never have them again pearljgirl2010.

thanks--same with you! I feel fine now, but really hope to never get them again...and the pain is NO exaggeration! After my brothers had them, they both called me and apologized for making light of it when i had them. I hated being able to say "i told you so" because i never wanted them to get them too :-(

mr.pink

It has to be hereditary in some cases. My sister and I both get them, and the underlying cause is the same. Most will say "too much calcium", and every doctor told me to avoid calcium supplements. I went to several specialists to try to figure it out. If I combined the lists of foods they told me to avoid, I'd be trying to live on chicken and fruit.

I actually needed more calcium in my diet. An endocrinologist told me to drink a big glass of milk every morning and night and lift weights. I haven't had a single stone when following this formula. Sometimes I've been lazy and partied too much and I've got a couple stones. BUT I FIGURED OUT THE REMEDY, at least for me. Lemon juice will destroy the stones when you already have them. I got that from "natural pathic" doctors and it really works. So for me, living right with milk is the prevention and lemon juice is the cure when I don't live right.

My stones are calcium-oxalate, which is the case with 97% of stones. We both have the sibling thing, so may be we have similar situations. I've got way more info about it, because I obsessively studied it a while back.

igotid88

pearljgirl2010 wrote:

I'm curious to find out if anyone else here has had kidney stones. I've had them 3 times, the most recently last night, then back in 2005, and first in 1998...I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy!!

If you have had them, have you had any luck with diet/vitamins/etc to help stop them? Unfortunately, mine have never been analyzed, so I don't know exactly what's caused them...

that's a lot of times

pjtradeking

I had them twice 20 years apart, and most recently in august of last year, so not sure if vitamins or diet or whatever I did helped...My wife just had them in december and had two the size of 1 karat diamonds!! Had to have surgery...I was lucky enough to pass mine!! OH BOY!!

When I had my first ones, I was told that it was because I drank alot of water, and the water in our area is very hard from what I am told...I too do not wish these on my worst enemy...My wife actually told me(even since our separation) that had she had any idea how much pain I was in, she wouldnt have taken it so lightly...she just assumed that since I have little tolerance for pain, that I was making out to be worse than it was...Now she knows!!

The wife of a guy I work with has had them 6 or 7 times since I met him in 1995...Some people are just lucky I guess!

Hope you are doing ok now!! :-)

Holtzmn

I just passed my first one Tuesday morning. I got a pain in my side Monday the 4th but didn't think much of it and then that night around 11PM I got the most horrific pain, unable to lay or sit down all I could do was walk around my house, occasionally screaming from the pain. Around 2AM I started vomiting and shaking from the chills. I had no clue where to go and was waiting for the urgent care by me to open at 8am, all night I was chugging water and around 5am the pain went away. Over the next couple days I was in slight pain but nothing too bad, I thought I had passed it but it was just sitting in my bladder at this point. Forward to two days ago the pain came back more in the side and front, I could feel the pain radiate to my groin when I urinated. Took another 24 hours of drinking water non stop to finally pass that sucker Tuesday morning. The pain after it left my bladder was bad but nowhere near as painful as when it went from my kidney to bladder, I was able to sleep and even worked out monday night trying to keep my mind off of the pain. Took 9 days and untold gallons of water to pass that stone, worst pain in my life, words can't accurately describe how much pain I was in. I think mine was from just not drinking enough water, I was also drinking red bull before working out so that didn't help at all, I cut out pop and red bull and will be upping my water intake and pray I don't get another one.

the wolf

you fucking people are killing me with this shit..... :shock:

why did i open this, and why did i read it all. ouch !!!!

i feel bad for all of you, i do. fuck me, I'm in pain just thinking about this shit.