Kidney Stone = Worst Pain Of My Life
Last Wednesday, I started to get a searing pain in my lower back and I thought it was nothing. Twelve hours later, I woke up with the worst pain I've ever had in my life. I went to the emergency room at Sparrow and they told me I had a kidney stone.
It's been about a week and I've literally been drinking 30 glasses of water a day and the stone still has not passed. The pain finally went away - transformed into a dull ache - but it was literally the worst pain I've ever felt. I equate it to losing a limb. It literally brought me to the edge of tears. The doctor told me to drink lots of water and just wait. I really don't know what to expect. Obviously, it's not like having a cold. When I have a cold, I take my meds and it goes away in four days. Well, I've been drinking the water and taking enough Ibuprofen to bring down an elephant and it's still there. Everything I read says it takes a "few hours to a few days" to flush this thing out of you. Since I'm about as lucky as mouse in a room full of rocking chairs, I expected this.
I wish there was a home remedy to dissolve said stone because if it's not gone by Sunday, I'm going to have to resort to option B. And that's something I don't even want to think about.
"Losing a limp"?? Lol.
You gotta keep the pimp limp, dude. Pimpin' ain't easy.
Posted by: GrammarProletariate | Wednesday, February 06, 2008 at 12:03 PM
my friend had a kidney stone once. and yea he said it was pretty bad. i dont know how he mananged to notice but when he did pass it not only did it hurt but he actually found the thing in the toilet and placed it in a baggy. i cant imagine. imagine a volkswagen beetle driving through a sleeping bag.
Posted by: eric | Wednesday, February 06, 2008 at 12:48 PM
Kidney stone pain is worse than a gunshot, worse than giving birth. Take it from one who knows.
Posted by: amac | Wednesday, February 06, 2008 at 01:45 PM
Go to the health food store and get the stuff that dissolves stones. I tried that before plan B. It worked. No plan B.
Posted by: Ana | Wednesday, February 06, 2008 at 02:01 PM
All right, you got two options here:
1. The first involves a couple of hard, pipe-hitting brothers with pliers and a blow torch.
2. The second involves a fifth of whiskey, two tablets of percocet and a back-alley streetwalker named Lexy.
Good luck.
Posted by: Curly Bill | Wednesday, February 06, 2008 at 03:31 PM
I watched my husband go through this one month after I gave birth. I think he was in more pain than me.
Sadly, you may have only one option just as he did....have it surgically removed cause it might be to big. Or you can have the doc do a lithotripsy. A water laser that breaks down the stone to sand so you can pee it out. Good luck!!
Posted by: LMH | Wednesday, February 06, 2008 at 10:27 PM
I had sometihng that i can only call kidney stone body attack this weekend!!
OMG!!! I have been through some pains in my life time but this was excruciating!!!
I almost passed out and could feel myself "drifting away" cause of the amonut of pain. I could only whisper to a nurse over the phone and that took A LOT of effort!!!
It stopped after 2 painkillers but the worst thing is i'm not sure i actually passed it.
:(
Posted by: Lana | Monday, December 29, 2008 at 05:31 AM