My Bad Extremely Awful Day
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@Catseye3 said in My Bad Extremely Awful Day:
@George-K said in My Bad Extremely Awful Day:
Kidney stone?
Wow, I didn't even think of this . . . no idea. It is kind of amazing that something could hurt this bad and then a nap later, be gone like it never happened.
Thanks to all for all the good strokes.
I've had two. Both of them started with a general feeling of "unwellness." Just feeling "off." Over the next hour a kind of crampy back pain that migrated to the front. Nausea. No comfortable position. Writhe around in bed. Finally fall asleep in mid morning. Two hours later, all gone.
I've seen hundreds of people with kidney stones, and that's a pretty typical story.
Keep an eye on your urine and see if anything passes. It might be so small that you'll miss it. Something as small as 2mm can be missed easily. Also, something as small as 2mm can cause some real discomfort.
@George-K said in My Bad Extremely Awful Day:
Both of them started with a general feeling of "unwellness." Just feeling "off." Over the next hour a kind of crampy back pain that migrated to the front. Nausea. No comfortable position. Writhe around in bed. Finally fall asleep in mid morning. Two hours later, all gone.
Criminy. That is almost exactly the same progression. Except mine started with an abrupt pain with no preceding unwellness.
Plus, I've been on my own case for a long time about not drinking enough water.
Thanks, Dr. G!
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@George-K said in My Bad Extremely Awful Day:
Both of them started with a general feeling of "unwellness." Just feeling "off." Over the next hour a kind of crampy back pain that migrated to the front. Nausea. No comfortable position. Writhe around in bed. Finally fall asleep in mid morning. Two hours later, all gone.
Criminy. That is almost exactly the same progression. Except mine started with an abrupt pain with no preceding unwellness.
Plus, I've been on my own case for a long time about not drinking enough water.
Thanks, Dr. G!
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I've had one. They hurt. Bad.
The wife has had several. Two had to be retrieved by a GU doc. One procedure led to pyelonephritis.
I promise you, you don't want to go there.
I don't know if there is a hard and fast rule about when to seek treatment for a kidney stone. Most folks pass them, but like my wife, some are too big and require intervention.
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I've had one. They hurt. Bad.
The wife has had several. Two had to be retrieved by a GU doc. One procedure led to pyelonephritis.
I promise you, you don't want to go there.
I don't know if there is a hard and fast rule about when to seek treatment for a kidney stone. Most folks pass them, but like my wife, some are too big and require intervention.
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I hope whatever it was doesn’t plague you again. Sounds right nasty. You might want to get it checked out.
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@Renauda Thanks, Renauda. Thanks to help from my TNCR expert panel, I think I've got the answer. I hope.
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@Catseye3 Hope you are still feeling well
@taiwan_girl said in My Bad Extremely Awful Day:
Hope you are still feeling well
Thanks, TG; yes, I am. I had another episode two days later, at about 80% pain and duration, but after that it has remained disappeared. Thank god.
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@taiwan_girl said in My Bad Extremely Awful Day:
Hope you are still feeling well
Thanks, TG; yes, I am. I had another episode two days later, at about 80% pain and duration, but after that it has remained disappeared. Thank god.
@Catseye3 sounding more and more like a stone moving down.
Keep hydrated and keep the urine flowing.
There are medical ways to treat a kidney stone that don't involve anything physical. Flomax can help relax the ureter and help the stone pass.
If it recurs, consider getting in touch with your doc.
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A good friend's daughter just got out of the hospital. A tummy bug had been going through her family, so when she started with lower abdominal pain, that's what she thought it was. But the pain worsened, she became febrile and then she became very sick.
By the time she presented to the ED and was diagnosed with a stone too big to pass, she was septic, her BUN and Creatinine was elevated and even her liver enzymes were up. IV antibiotics, painkillers, a stent and three days in the hospital got her turned around, but she was sent home with the stent and a return date of three weeks from now.
Kidney stones are not to be ignored. They won't let you.
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A good friend's daughter just got out of the hospital. A tummy bug had been going through her family, so when she started with lower abdominal pain, that's what she thought it was. But the pain worsened, she became febrile and then she became very sick.
By the time she presented to the ED and was diagnosed with a stone too big to pass, she was septic, her BUN and Creatinine was elevated and even her liver enzymes were up. IV antibiotics, painkillers, a stent and three days in the hospital got her turned around, but she was sent home with the stent and a return date of three weeks from now.
Kidney stones are not to be ignored. They won't let you.
@Jolly I've seen more than a few cases of urosepsis due to a stone.
If you're septic from a stone too big to pass, the proper treatment is stent and antibiotics. If the stone is small enough, you might be able to snag it with a basket. If it's too big for that, the treatment was to let the sepsis pass and address the stone with lithotripsy. However, today's urologists are trained to treat stones endoscopically with a laser, and ESWL is falling out of favor. ESWL was great in its heyday, but that time is passing with each new generation of urologists.
Either treatment is a far cry from the barbaric days of open pyelolithotomy.
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The last time I had kidney stones, I felt high after I passed them for days, just because the pain was gone.
They're a bit of an experience.
Hope yours don't require surgery, Cats. Listen to George, he knows stuff.
